Resistance Bands can be Dangerous!!

EmilyOfTheSun

If any of you use resistance bands in your workout routine….DO NOT but the Gold’s Gym brand!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/SweptIntoShadows/goldsgym.jpg

I’ve had mine for less than three months. I was using it and it broke, snapped back and hit me in the arm real good! Lol. It happened so fast, I didn’t have time to panic. It honestly didn’t even hurt that much. Got up, grabbed a different band and continued the work out.

This is like an hour after it happened:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/SweptIntoShadows/photo.jpg

This is about a day after. Got a little darker:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/SweptIntoShadows/photo1.jpg

I knew I should’ve spent the extra money and bought the nice high quality ones from the P90X people!! Lesson learned. I’ll be ordering some soon through Beach Body! I’ll post any bad experiences I may have with them but hopefully that won’t happen!

EmilyOfTheSun

damn it....how do i imbed photos!?

glittersoul

If any of you use resistance bands in your workout routine….DO NOT but the Gold’s Gym brand!!



I’ve had mine for less than three months. I was using it and it broke, snapped back and hit me in the arm real good! Lol. It happened so fast, I didn’t have time to panic. It honestly didn’t even hurt that much. Got up, grabbed a different band and continued the work out.

This is like an hour after it happened:


This is about a day after. Got a little darker:


I knew I should’ve spent the extra money and bought the nice high quality ones from the P90X people!! Lesson learned. I’ll be ordering some soon through Beach Body! I’ll post any bad experiences I may have with them but hopefully that won’t happen!

glittersoul

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glittersoul

That looks like it hurts... I have seen some bad reviews on the resistance bands because of that too. I bought some but don't really use them because they don't seem to provide that much resistance for me.

EmilyOfTheSun

Thanks for the help with the pics
Well I'm currently doing P90X. I'm not able to do a pull up yet which is a part of quite a few of the work outs. So they recommend using resistance bands instead until you're ready to do a pull up. So I kinda have to use them while I'm on this program! A little scared to use them now lol but I'm just gonna look into some better ones and hopefully that'll work!

ktbug1186

omg!!! that's awful!!!

shimewazaMan

Thanks for posting. I user resistance bands quite a bit and have found that the Gold's brand, in general, do not hold up very well. I've never used ones like that though, so I've never gotten smacked with a hard piece like that. Won't be buyng any more from Golds!

glittersoul

Good luck with your next set of them! And good job on your p90x

AmyEm3

We had a different Gold's Gym resistance band and it snapped after about two months of use. It was the red/black one.

EmilyOfTheSun

just testing to see if i'm doing this right...


ugh didn't work. i cannot figure out how to post a damn pic using the photobucket link!

FINALLY worked. yay!

girlie100

i have a set from bodylastics

http://www.bodylastics.com/

had no problems with them so far

CatheaLove

I had the same thing happen to me with the black Gold's brand. Luckily for me, it didn't hit me. I'll never buy that brand again!