Looking for an easy and exciting way to crank up your interval cardio training in your bootcamp??  I have just the resistance band training solution and it doesn’t matter who, what or where.

Partner Interval running in bands is one of the safest, easiest, and most cost effective ways to get a great running cardio workout.  You don’t need a huge space, people typically love the challenge and its super easy to teach.  However as I continue to speak to fitness professionals about band running they have a few issues and fear about implementing band running.  I thought I would help address these issues.

Band running is unsafe

That is totally not the case.  As a matter of fact, partner band running is all acceleration with essentially no deceleration impact.  Since deceleration is what most often leads to injuries, you will immediately find out that campers do better with band running and will often prefer it over regular body weight running.

 Not everyone can run

I have yet to find someone in my adult fitness boot camps who cannot do some form of band running (shuffle, backpedal, forward running) or power walking.  In most cases inability to run comes from lack of hip deceleration control which overtime will stress joint surfaces.  With band running the body is actually unweighted which in turn makes ground contact forces on the joints less.   As a result your clients along with their joints will love you for introducing them to band running.

You need a lot of space to run

 I have done Partner band workouts in cafeterias, hallways, small weight rooms as well as in the basement of my own home.   With partner band running the work is really in the start and making sure you emphasis quick bursts, high knees and fast arms.  Repeating this for 8-10 reps or over a 1-2 minute period creates incredible heart rates and workloads. 

You need a lot of bands to run with

To do partner band running you need 1 band per 2 people, assuming you have the right size of band, that’s approximately a $20 investment divided by 2…$10 per person and done over 40 camps means you spend about   10₵ per camp.

Granted body weight running is free but it’s boring as heck and you need space unless you do shuttle runs which requires a lot deceleration work than band running.  

I was recently at a Bootcamp Fitness Professional seminar and had the opportunity to run about 20 fitness professionals through a little partner band interval cardio work using a 50-10 Workout muse soundtrack found bootcamp dynamite. 

 Think about this.

Could your clients do that?? 

Is your space bigger than the little 20 foot by 20 foot area I had??

Can you afford a $20 t0 $25 band to get a great cardio workout for your clients??

I want to know what you think.  Make sure you comment below and tell me about your experiences with partner band running or shoot me your questions on how you can set up your bootcamp for partner band running.

Or …… If you are interested in getting your hands on over 40 more partner based band workouts, take a look at picking up your own copy of the Partner Band Training DVD

Training Beyond the Contraction

Dave Schmitz