What is better: free weights, exercise machines, stretch bands or calisthenics?
Each type of strength training has both benefits and disadvantages, depending upon your fitness goals, experience and equipment availability. Free weights and calisthenics require balancing and stabilizing muscles which act together in real life situations to coordinate movement. This optimizes the development of overall body strength. Exercise machines can provide a quick, safe workout for the beginner and are useful for muscle isolation. Stretch bands can be adapted easily to your muscle’s need for increased resistance as you become stronger (increase the tension of the band by standing farther away from the anchor point). How often should I do my strength workout? Most of us should strength train on alternate days to allow for sufficient recovery and rebuilding of muscle. You’ll want to train between 2-4 days per week, depending upon your time constraints and goals. If your strength training session is “light”, you’ll be able to train more frequently. You can also alternate “heavy”
Proper training is required when we use weights and machines for exercising. Exercise bands are much simpler to use. We do not require any training to use them. In fact, the kit itself may provide suggestions of what exercises can be done using them. Comparatively, the Exercise bands are the cheaper and the equally effective option for exercising.
