We can find that many people usually tie a hip band around their legs when they do squats. Do you ever wonder why squatting is done with bands on your legs? Is it to increase resistance or to train leg muscles? The following through a series of content to explain it!
Benefits of using the hip band while squatting.
1. Allow more muscle groups in the glutes to participate in the work
When doing deep squats, our glutes are just flexed and stretched. The gluteus medius, however, the gluteus medius plays the role of hip abduction and horizontal rotation. This means that the gluteus medius is better strengthened when done simultaneously. Of course, we can also enhance this muscle group alone. Bodybuilders can use hip bands to reduce time wastage. This way the muscles of the legs and hips are more involved in the work, especially the gluteus medius and external rotators group. Thus, you will be able to better accomplish your fitness goals.
Another phenomenon is that many people have naturally stronger adductor muscles than adductors. This will achieve a training balance and activate the adductors. This allows all the muscles in our body to develop in a balanced way. Thus avoiding the body's compensatory behavior.
2. Make the body's line of force more stable
When we do a deep squat, our body is in a state of tension from top to bottom. The shoulders, elbows, back, lower back, hips, legs, etc. all have to overcome working resistance. Because the line of force is perpendicular to the ground downward, we must overcome upward resistance. This is easy for everyone to understand. But we may forget that there is another kind of tension, namely the line of force from left to right.
The trampoline in the amusement park, I think we will be familiar with it. Usually, trampolines are round, not seen as square or other shapes. If you only let the two directions up and down the bed straight, the left and right directions do not go straight. Then the elastic space of the trampoline will be limited. It will not be enough to support the entire bed, it will not play, and the support surface will not be stable.
Let's go back to the deep squat. Our bodies are very stable up and down. But when you put more weight on it, the tension and stability of the body decrease. Training will also be affected.
However, if you wear a resistance band on your leg, the effect is completely different. It will maintain tension in your thighs from the inside out (left to right). It makes your body more stable, especially the power line of your whole body. Whether from top to bottom, from left to right, or from inside to outside, there is always tension. Allowing you to train this movement at full strength and get your hips and legs firing. This allows you to burn more fat in your body and strengthen more muscle groups. Thus, you can carve a "steel" muscle armor.
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Post time: Dec-07-2022