I don't have experience with that brand, but I have used resistance bands as I travel a lot for work too. In general, I have found that resistance bands can pretty much duplicate any exercise of dumbbells or cable machines. Where I have found difficulty is lower body exercises such as squats, deadli...

Try getting pushup bars or pushup stands. They allow you to do pushups without having to bend your wrists. They are fairly cheap and you can get them from Target or Walmart. I use them all the time when I do pushups.

I bought mine from bodylastics and I have to say I was really happy with purchase. They have four handles and four ankle straps with metal D rings and the whole bunch of different tension bands that you can clip on in any combination to give you a wide range of resistance (5lbs to 117lbs). It also h...

We will need some more information about your workouts to help you fully. What workouts, sets, and reps do you perform at the gym? What is your warm up and cool down routine? What do eat on your workout days? I don't have as much experience as others here (packard, swanso, lesplease seem to post the...

Not to mention that we don't have the facilities to use cross fit as a unit. Sure we have barbells, pull up bars, and punching bags, but not enough for 60 people, even if we had them cycle through exercises. The lack of measuring progress too is a huge problem. I'm all about variety and using muscle...

Couldn't answer why the PT test is the way it is. It's been like that well before I joined. I tried to add a local requirement for a pull up test as well, but it got shot down. Trust me though, trying to get things changed in a large government organization is nearly impossible. Could have a lot to ...

To answer your questions in order: 1. Typically when group PT is done in the Navy we don't focus on lower body strength. There are a couple of reasons. First, it is not tested on the Navy PT test. Second, the PT is typically done in a big field where all we have is ourselves and maybe some pull up b...

To clarify what I wrote, the detailed upper and lower body workouts is what I do on own. I'm looking for advice to make those more effective. I workout with Navy crew about once to twice a week and that is a completely separate workout. Its either running or bodyweight upper body exercises. I make s...

I'm in the US Navy and I'm in charge of a group of 60 Sailors going through their initial training after boot camp. About once to twice a week I lead them in military PT sessions which is entirely upper body, body weight exercises or runs (The others day I have PT leaders that lead them). The upper ...