Incorporating Advanced Tubing Exercises into Your Exercise Routine

Article by Mandy Gibbons

Tubing exercises can be worked into your exercise program in a variety of ways. They are gentle enough to be used as recovery workouts between more intense workout days yet they can be used for major strength training and toning as well. They can even be worked into circuit training workouts for a combined cardio and strength training effect. It is a great way to get in effective workouts when you are pressed for time.

Example tubing exercises:

Cable Twist

Attach your tubing or exercise band to a door or wall and stand at the furthest point away from the wall, turned sideways with arms holding the handles in an outstretched position. Pull the handles across the body to the other side. So, if you are standing with your left side facing the wall you will hold your arms outright point toward the wall then pull the tubing handles across the body and out to the right side.

Make sure you are standing sideways so you can easily pull the tubing across the body to the other side. You can make tubing exercises like this more powerful by picking up the speed. Just make sure to keep your legs comfortable and only move the upper body. Your feet should remain stable even when pulling at a faster speed.

You can also make this basic movement a full body workout by stepping out into a side lunge away from the wall as you pull the tubing or bands across your body. This is one of the best tubing exercises for circuit training since it moves your energy from one area of the body to the other within the same movement.

Weightlifting Tubing Exercises

If your goal is to incorporate tubing exercises with your strength training routine, consider adding tubes or cables onto your bench press. The tubes or cables are connected to each ends of the bar and then down at the bottom of the bench frame somewhere. Every time you lift the bar you will notice it is a lot more challenging than just lifting the same weighted bar without the extra resistance. You may want to use a spotter, have someone supporting the bar, for this exercise.

Tubing Exercises for Arms & Back

If you have an exercise ball on hand, lie across it and pull the tubing or bands back alongside the body. You should be positioned with your stomach on the ball and hands out in front of you superman style to grip the handles of your tubing. Your weight is balanced by your feet which are stretched out behind you with toes down to the ground.

Not only will you work your arms and back with tubing exercises like this, but you will also work the rest of your core muscles as you balance and control your body to stay in the proper position on the ball.

These tubing exercises are great for strength training and can easily be incorporated into circuit training with cardio movements.

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Tubing As Exercise And Fun

There are many sports options that are available in a seasonal capacity during the summer. Participating in these activities is one of the things that people eagerly look forward to when summer approaches, because they know that these seasonal options are usually a good active time that can be enjoyed with friends, under very unique circumstances.

Some of the popular sports options that are favorites during the summer take advantage of the fact that it is hot outside and that people like to play outside in the water. Taking out a boat and enjoying the myriad of sports options is one of the more desirable ways of doing so, because it allows for a memorable time and usually occurs in a social setting that builds bonds of friendship between the participants.

Popular options when using a boat include wakeboarding, waterskiing, knee boarding, and tubing. All of these activities feature the similar theme of having people be pulled quickly behind a boat as they struggle to stay on top of the water.

While some of the listed options are more desirable to the people who have built up an effective skill set that allows them to participate with ease, such as wakeboarding, those who don’t have ready access to a boat or have the time to become proficient in a ski sport may prefer tubing. Tubing is a readily accessible option that anyone can enjoy, because it is easy to learn and simply requires the participant to hang on, sometimes being accompanied by a friend as they do so.

Therefore, people who have a more casual attitude while on the water will probably like this option more than the other ones, for a wide variety of reasons. Examining how tubing works and the possible games and variants that emerge from the concept may be important to examine at this time.

As stated, tubing is a simple concept. It requires that people be pulled behind a boat while resting atop a buoyant object that is tethered to the boat itself. In most instances, the person stays atop their tube until they tire or are thrown off.

The simple concept is made more complex by the role that the person driving the boat plays in the proceedings. Obviously, since the riders are directly connected to the boat, the driver is directly able to alter their course and speed, as well as determining how they will approach wave and other water bound obstacles.

The driver is then able to things like control how the riders will fare, and can do things like pull them outside of the wake and use the inertia of the entire thing to propel riders over waves in a way that they mimic more land bound jumps. This means that the riders will be subjected to both the forces of momentum and nature, as well as the whims of the driver, as they try to hang on for as long as they possibly can.

There are a variety of games and competitions that can be staged during the course of the run. Usually, there are multiple people behind the boat, and there can be a couple of tubes used in these games as well.

Usually, the rules and restrictions are only limited by the decisions of the people involved in the activity, so being spontaneous and ridiculous with the rules of how to proceed is encouraged, as long as it is done safely. Usually, the experience involves combatants trying to dislodge each other as they are being pulled by the boat, with the winner being the last one holding on.

The games are social and fun, and the imaginations of the people involved help dictate the activity and the outcomes. Therefore, this sport is a dynamic and unique one that never plays out the same way twice.

Tubing behind a boat is usually considered to be a casual activity that is barely classified as a sport because of its unconventional nature and lack of enforced rules. However, this activity provides an excellent upper body workout that occurs as participants fight to stay on, battling the forces of gravity and inertia as they go; making this option a very appealing one to people who want to have a silly good time and receive a surprisingly effective fitness session.