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!±8± Beachbody Resistance Bands - Are They the Best for Your P90X Workout

Have you heard about the BeachBody resistance bands that you can use with your P90X workout?

In this article, you'll discover exactly what you get with these P90X resistance bands as the BeachBody bands are sometimes called. By the time you are done reading this review you will be able to determine whether or not these are the best choice for your at home workout and how to save money on purchasing your needed equipment for the P90X.

First, let's discuss what you get with the BeachBody resistance bands basic kit. Here's a list of exactly what you get.

*15 to 30 Pounds of Resistance

*Three bands of varying tension levels each with two handles.

*Sells for under

The BeachBody Resistance Bands Extreme:

*40 to 50 Pounds of Tension

*Three bands of varying tension levels with two handles each.

*Sells for approximately same price as the basic tension set.

Next, let's discuss the advantages of using exercise tubes over dumbbells. First, the major advantage of P90X resistance bands vs dumbbells. For one thing, you will typically pay approximately 1 dollar per pound of weight when you purchase dumbbells. So if you're purchasing to 25-pound dumbbells you will pay approximately or more.

Adjustable dumbbells will cost you approximately - per pound.

For example, the Bowflex SelectTech 1090 dumbbells offer weights from 10 to 90 pounds. The current selling price is 9.00, that's approximately .65 per pound. The Bowflex SelectTech 552 dumbbell offers weight resistance from 5 to 52.5 pounds and sells for 9.00, which is approximately .60 per pound.

Now let's compare that to exercise tubes from a company called Bodylastics. The company offers for different home gym systems. Therefore, system is called the basic tension, which offers tension levels up to 88 pounds and sells for approximately .95. That's approximately $.52 per pound, as you can see already exercise tubing can be much less expensive than dumbbells.

Let's take a look at their two most popular home gyms. The Super Strong Man and the Mega Resistance.

The Bodylastics Super Strong Man offers up to 254 pounds of tension and sells for approximately .00. That breaks down to approximately $.36 per pound. The Bodylastics Mega Resistance set offers up to 388 pounds and sells for about 0.00. That's approximately $.34 per pound.

In addition, another advantage that fitness tubing has is that you can use it in place of having a pull up or chin up bar. So if you are doing the P90X workout you could eliminate having to spend an additional for the P90X pull up bar.

Overall, you can decide for yourself what too many is plainly obvious and that's for the money exercise bands make the best home gym. In conclusion, bear in mind that the Bodylastics system allows you to perform more than 139 exercises and all their tubes come with a lifetime defects warranty.

Therefore, if you decide to purchase the BeachBody resistance bands or one of their competitors like Bodylastics in the end exercise tubing is a much less expensive choice.