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Gaiam Pilates BodyBand Workout Kit

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The Functional Fitness Tool: Women's Resistance Cords

One of the best reasons people should exercise, and practice Pilates in particular, is that it's easy to do at home. You don't need a lot of expensive, unwieldy equipment that takes up space. In fact, the smaller, easily stored tools like women's resistance cords provide the ultimate in core and full body strength training as well as flexibility work. Resistance cords and bands are perfect in-home training equipment.

Originally used as rehab tools by physical therapists, resistance cords have become conventional exercise tools for the home user. One type of women's resistance cords is the covered resistance cords like the ones Gaiam provides in their Covered Resistance Cord Workout Kit. This gym-quality resistance tubing is covered in thick material and comes in light, medium or heavy resistance. Tone your entire body while working out to the full-length workout DVD provided in the kit. Anyone can use it, no matter her exercise level.

Women's resistance cords also come in uncovered tubing. Like the covered cords, these provide effective full body workouts. What makes tubing a powerful equipment choice is the ability it gives you to work in multiple planes of movement. This means you aren't just lifting up and down or pressing out and pulling in. Working up, down, in front or in circles provides a much more functional type of training. Standing on the cord then performing a bicep curl and an outer thigh leg lift is an example of working multiplaner, and multitasking as well!

Another type of women's resistance cord is more like a band, flat and thin, it's much wider than a cord. Pilates aficionados like these because they work nicely with bare feet and can be used as a tool for the entire Mat work series. Bands, like cords, provide a wide range of motion, are lightweight and durable. At times they even outperform hand weights because bands can provide constant resistance, or tension.

Bar bells can fall prey to gravity while bands give resistance when stretched and can keep giving it no matter the movement. Gaiam's Pilates BodyBand Workout Kit includes three of these types of bands at varying strengths. Well-known Pilates instructor Ana Caban leads you through a DVD workout that's included in the kit.

Women's resistance cords and bands are simple - simply effective. Their uses are virtually limitless as you work on toning your whole body in a way that's safe on your joints. You can find these resistance cords and bands at www.ActivewearUSA.com. Use them to get a solid workout that continually challenges you with varying strengths in resistance. Smart, durable and effective - resistance cords and bands are the perfect addition to your fitness routine.

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