Resistance Bands can be Dangerous!!

EmilyOfTheSun
EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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!

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  • EmilyOfTheSun
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    damn it....how do i imbed photos!?
  • glittersoul
    glittersoul Posts: 666 Member
    If any of you use resistance bands in your workout routine….DO NOT but the Gold’s Gym brand!!

    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:
    photo.jpg

    This is about a day after. Got a little darker:
    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!
  • glittersoul
    glittersoul Posts: 666 Member
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  • glittersoul
    glittersoul Posts: 666 Member
    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
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
    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
    ktbug1186 Posts: 266
    omg!!! that's awful!!! :(
  • shimewazaMan
    shimewazaMan Posts: 413
    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
    glittersoul Posts: 666 Member
    Good luck with your next set of them! And good job on your p90x
  • AmyEm3
    AmyEm3 Posts: 784 Member
    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
    EmilyOfTheSun Posts: 1,548 Member
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    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
    girlie100 Posts: 646 Member
    i have a set from bodylastics

    http://www.bodylastics.com/

    had no problems with them so far :)
  • CatheaLove
    CatheaLove Posts: 2
    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!

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