| With so many accessories and equipments coming | | | | additional external resistance. The choice largely |
| into play, it is hard to choose the right ones for | | | | depends on the “feel-good” factor and |
| you home-workout plan. Sometimes, one might | | | | boils down to which of the two alternatives make |
| get an expensive piece of equipment and might | | | | them feel better. |
| not use it more than once or twice and on the | | | | The resistance bands are less space occupying, |
| contrary, sometimes one might loose out on an | | | | would require you to maintain proper balance while |
| important piece of equipment and end up injuring | | | | working out and you can achieve a whole range |
| himself or herself because of faulty equipment. | | | | of resistance levels by narrowing or loosening the |
| Two of the most confusing pieces of equipment | | | | loop around your legs. One main difference in |
| while going in for any workout plan, especially the | | | | which resistance bands and dumbbells work is that |
| p90x, are dumbbells and resistance bands. People | | | | resistance bands offer more workout to the |
| often get confused as to which mode of tension | | | | helper muscles around the main muscle that you |
| is better for the power 90 workout plan and end | | | | intend to work out. This happens because |
| up getting caught up in a tangled web of choices. | | | | resistance bands require a more refined |
| We would be discussing and comparing these two | | | | movement of the muscles and needs you to |
| alternatives for providing resistance training. | | | | maintain perfect posture, while in the case of |
| The main difference between the p90x workout | | | | dumbbells, it is only up to you to check you |
| and a normal strength training workout at the | | | | posture and form. Consequently, if you want to |
| gym is that while doing the p90x, you are not | | | | focus on a single muscle group, and don’t |
| lifting hundreds of pounds; rather, you are building | | | | want to dilute your workout efforts, then |
| your strength pound by pound and trying to get | | | | dumbbells are what you should go in for. If you |
| in shape. Another point of disparity between a | | | | are underweight and your body is not as toned as |
| normal gym routine and the p90x workout is that | | | | you would want it to be, dumbbells might prove |
| the power 90 workout focuses on making your | | | | to be a much better option than resistance bands, |
| body look the best it can while retaining its own | | | | as dumbbells tend to bulk up at the right places. |
| sizes and during a gym workout plan, you tend to | | | | You movement is free in the case of dumbbells |
| get bulkier and massive. Until and unless you are | | | | and you are not restricted to try out only some |
| an athlete or want to be a professional body | | | | fixed body angles and grips. Therefore, if you |
| builder, there is absolutely no need for you to get | | | | know hoe to experiment, dumbbells are the way |
| bulky and look large. | | | | to go. |
| The p90x routines rely on using one’s own | | | | This author lives in Flemington, NJ with her |
| body as a resistance most of the times, but | | | | husband and 5 month old daughter and is an |
| there are some routines wherein the instructors in | | | | expert contributing author for an exercise and |
| the p90x workout videos are seen using either | | | | fitness p90x site offering variety of p90x |
| resistance bands or dumbbells to introduce | | | | workouts and p90x chin up bar. |