FITNESS BANDS system - great for Bodyshaping

Bodylastics - arguably the most effective fitness bands on the planet!

Welcome! If you are looking for an effective and easy to use fitness bands system. You have come to the right place. The system that you see on this page is called Bodylastics and it is like no other fitness band system on the market.

Our unique fitness band super system is a complete exercise or fitness center membership in a 2 pound bag, for less than the cost of one month at most better equipped clubs.

Fitness bands also known as resistance bands are not just for aerobics classes anymore! Our unique and adjustable design will enable you to effectively work all of the same muscles as Bowflex and Soloflex but for 100's and even 1000's less! Click here to compare Bodylastics to Bowflex and Soloflex

Works every muscle group / Just 10 minute workouts, 3 times per week /
ALL STRENGTH LEVELS with 15 levels of resistance

Come inside and see who we are. Take a look at what we do. Discover what we offer.

Men, Women, Children, Elderly, Athletic, what we have was designed for you whether you are professional, just starting, need rehabilitation or want something so you can free up extra space in your home. Our friends in Japan where living spaces are quite limited really love us for that reason!

I know I personally regret leaving home for business because that means I must actually go to a gym when I travel. I have to look for one, call them for directions, you know the routine....

Friends of mine even use Bodylastics strength training equipment to warm themselves up before they go on stage or head out to the playing field. The uses are endless.  Try to stick a Bowflex in your suitcase!

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Blake Kassel

Bodylastics strength training equipment has been featured in several national publications: Glamour, New Woman, Delta Sky, The New York Post, Woman's World, Jane, Men's Exercise, Prevention, "You Gotta Read This", Essence, Self and Fitness. And many more exclusive articles are on the way!! The Bodylastics fever is catching on! Our testimonials are amazing even us! Isn't it about time that someone looked out for your financial fitness and better interests? Something that actually delivers and something that you can afford is finally here. We are Bodylastics Int'l Inc.

Who am I and why should you listen to me?

Who am I and why should you listen to me? My name is Blake Kassel and simply put, I have already tried it all. Exercise and strength training has been a part of my life since childhood. I had my first set of free weights when I was 13, a Soloflex when I was 15, and joined a hard-core bodybuilding gym in NYC when I was 16.

I once tried to calculate all of the collective time that I had spent in the gym and I was shocked to see that it worked out to several years!

Although I had access to heavy weight equipment there were so many many times that I wished I had an exercise tool that I could use in my room, on the road, or even outside. When I was in college (those were the days when I was competing in Bodybuilding) someone told me about these new great exercise bands that I could use right in my room.

There was one problem - they did not have enough resistance to challenge my muscles - and back then I WAS STRONG.

I spent a year and a half perfecting the Bodylastics Fitness Band System so that it can be used by people of all levels of fitness. This fitness band system will enable you to combine bands so that you can create the equivalent of a 45lb dumbbell or barbell. This 45lbs feels like 60 lbs though because you must actually perform the negative movement of the exercise.

Before we go any further, let's talk about strength and how it relates to your muscle. Do you know how a muscle works? It's actually a great question. Your muscle has many many fibers that run along it's length. When your body tells your muscle to shorten, something happens called crossbridging (this is very complicated so I won't bore you) which in turn causes the muscle fibers to contract and shorten. When you work your muscle against resistance microscopic tears in the muscle are created. This is why you get sore. When the tears heal it generates a stronger and many times a slightly bigger muscle.

It's pretty simple, really. When you overload your muscle with resistance your muscle will have to adapt. How's it going to adapt? It is going to have to become stronger. How will it become stronger? It will have to get bigger. This is the principle of adaptation.

The greatest fact about working your muscle against resistance is that your muscle does not know the type of resistance it is. Yes, your muscle is blind. It will not know whether you are working with free weights, machines or fitness bands.

I have met many bodybuilders and powerlifters who have added muscle and strength using fitness bands. As I said you must make sure that you can add enough resistance with your fitness band set (like Bodylastics) so that the muscle is struggling on the last rep of every set.

Fitness bands have been around for a long time, although they have really become popular again in the last 4 to 5 years. Jack La Lanne sold fitness bands as an exercise tool in the 50's!

How do fitness bands work? The first fact to remember is that your muscle is blind. It only knows that it is working against resistance not what type of resistance. Fitness bands create resistance (tension) as you stretch them. Believe it or not they actually have an advantage over free weights. Elastic Resistance creates more resistance as you stretch it as opposed to free weights where the tension is constant. Why is that an advantage? When your muscle is just starting to shorten it will be using less muscle fibers (fibers actually are what make up your muscles) - this is when you want less resistance. As it shortens further the muscle will recruit more and more muscle fibers - this is when you want the muscle to work harder against more resistance. This is very similar to the "cam system" which you will find on the $1000 machines in the best gyms.