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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/jumping-on-the-band-wagon-for-portable-fitness/">Jumping on the Band Wagon for Portable Fitness</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 26, 2008 at 02:00 PM by Martha Jones</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">The following article is written by Lisa Marie Mercer. In both of my books, Open Your Heart with Winter Fitness: Mastering Life through Love of the Slopes and 101 Fitness Tips for Women, I included information about keeping fit without a gym membership. Having spent over 25 years in the fitness industry, I’ve discovered that if you’re looking for affordability and portability, nothing beats elastic resistance equipment. Although elastic equipment may not provide the same strength benefits that weight training equipment supplies, it is not without its own merits.&nbsp; Bands and tubes provide resistance in both the eccentric and concentric phases of the movements. The concentric phase of a muscular contraction occurs when a muscle is shortening. In the eccentric phase, your muscles are lengthening.&nbsp; Training the muscles…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/jumping-on-the-band-wagon-for-portable-fitness/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/jumping-on-the-band-wagon-for-portable-fitness/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/jumping-on-the-band-wagon-for-portable-fitness/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/jumping-on-the-band-wagon-for-portable-fitness/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/sports-medicine/">sports-medicine</a><br /><br /> </P>