Resistance bands create a different kind of muscle stimulus than gravity-based weight training. The speaker explains how bands' variable resistance can actually produce better muscle growth than traditional lifting.
Your whole body is afraid of gravity, and it's afraid of gravity because if you pick up, say, a dumbbell, it's going to wobble a little bit. When it wobbles, gravity makes it accelerate. And the little sensors in your wrist, your elbow, your shoulder, they're called proprioceptors. And they sense that gravity is there. So they're going to tell you you can't pick up anything heavier. You could pick up something heavier, but it knows that if it wobbles, the wobble will make it even heavier, and then you'd get injured. So it's holding back something like 70% of your possible ability to apply pressure. Interesting, because it knows it feels gravity. So let's remove gravity. Right. And I go the different technologies that let you do this, and one of the interesting ones is a resistance band. Just a rubber resistance band. Yeah, tell me about that. Resistance bands change the resistance against the muscles to something that's foreign to them. So they don't know how to defend against it because they know. They know how to deal with gravity. They don't know how to deal with something that changes when you move. So they get overwhelmed more quickly and they grow more quickly. And there are studies showing three times better muscle growth.
