Variety is the spice of life and the key to succeeding in your workouts. So whether you’re a beginner or an advanced athlete, resistance bands are the perfect piece of equipment. Adding bands into your workout will constantly keep your muscles guessing and your body changing. These lightweight, portable, fat-blasting bands can be taken anywhere. The following exercises will give you a full-body burn and help you escape the boredom of your regular workout routine. So get ready for the top 10 resistance band exercises.

Seated Triceps Extension

How to do it :

1. Take a seat on the ground
2. Wrap resistance band around your feet
3. Make sure the other side is around you, you are within the circle
4. Lean forward and engaging your ab muscles at the same time and grab other side of the band
5. Palms facing down on the band
6. Begin to extend your hands back until you feel the pressure on your triceps
7. Slowly find your way back to starting position
8. Repeat exercise.

Overhead Press

How to do it:

1. Place band under your feet
2. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart
3. Lower your body down into a squat position
4. Bring your hands to your shoulders
5. Begin to stand up from squat.
6. Engage your core and lift your hands up in the air, still holding the band
7. Lower back down slowly to shoulder level
8. Go back into squat position
9. Repeat exercise

Upright Row

How to do it :

1. Place band under your feet
2. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart
3. Place band in your hands
4. Raise your elbows to the sky while keeping your hands close to your body
5. Raise elbows higher than your shoulders
6. Bring yourself back down
7. Repeat exercise

Pull – Aparts

How to do it :

1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart
2. Double the band until it feels a couple bands thick
3. Palms facing up
4. Pull the band out and to the sides of your body towards chest level
5. Keep your core tight as you slowly let the band come back in.
6. Repeat exercise

Side-Stepping Lunge

How to do it:

1. Place band on ankles
2. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart
3. Twist band so that it looks like an X
4. Pull the band apart with your legs so that you can feel tension in your hips
5. Lower down into a quarter squat
6. Start to step out to the side
7. Keep glutes and core tight
8. Switch sides, step to the left squat hold and lift, move to the right, squat hold and repeat