Building muscle power and size through resistance exercises is almost mandatory for serious body builders. Resistance exercises are the easiest, most common and generally most effective in bodybuilding. These exercises mostly use elastic bands.

Exercise bands are perfect tools due to their inexpensive availability and portability and usability in a range of exercises targeting an entire body strength training workouts whether at home gyms or on the road. Most exercise bands are flat in shape, rubber tubes or customary made devices improvised from rubber tubing.

The major benefits derived from exercise bands include their portability, ability to adjust the amount of tension and more importantly the diverse and ultimately crucial exercises that body builders cannot perform with weights.
There are very many full-body workout exercises using bands. The following are examples of the exercises.

a) The Seated Row

While sitting on the floor and you can grasp one handle, then wrap the tubing around a firm post or any other anchor on the ground while simultaneously grabbing the other handle. Maintaining this position, extend the legs in front, keeping the knees slightly bent, as you pulling the handles. The elbows should form right angles and you should continually squeeze your shoulder blades together. To complete the cycle, let both your arms to extend back until they reach the starting position and immediately begin the second cycle. The seated row is an effective exercise for building the back muscles.

b) Triceps Extension

This exercise builds the triceps muscles. To starts, just step on the tubing and gradually pull one handle up from behind your head. Begin extending your arm to straighten up fully and then gradually lower it back to the starting bent position and sgitch the arms in an alternating rhythm.

c) Military Press

Body builders use the military press primarily to build the shoulder muscles. Traditionally, it involves stand straight on the centre of an exercise band holding the feet shoulder-width apart. Hold both palms facing forward while the arms gradually extend straight up. Keep the back straight and the abdominal lining muscles very tight.

d) The Bench Press

Start by securing the centre of the exercise tubing at chest level and then face away from the anchoring post while still grabbing the handles in each hand. Gradually extend both arms to the front and release them to the initial position before restarting again. These exercises build the chest muscles.

e) The Biceps Curls

Start by stepping on one end of the band and simultaneously grab the handle with the same hand. Ensure your arm is fully extended down by your side and that there is some tension on the band. Bend the elbow, so as to bring the hand up towards the shoulder. Always keep the wrist straight and only bend the elbow. Repeat these exercises with both arms regularly to build biceps using light level resistance in an increasing schedule.

Other exercises possible with bands include the Squats which build quadriceps, gluteus and the hamstrings. These are done standing on the centre of the tubing while grabbing the handles with both hands and standing with the feet shoulder-width apart.