- The resistance recommended by SPRI for most men and advanced women
- Perfect for home, gym, or on-the-road use
- Includes door attachment for additional training options
- Two illustrated exercise charts
- Measures 5 by 7-3/4 by 2-1/2 inches and weighs .5 pounds
Product Description
The Xertube is the ideal workout tool you can use anywhere, any time for safe and effective total-body conditioning. Comes with one Xertube, two exercise charts and a door attachment.Amazon.com
SPRI Xertubes provide an easily portable, highly versatile way to add resistance training to your workout. Constructed of durable rubber with secure plastic and webbing handles, the Xertubes are suitable for a variety of toning exercises, body types, and fitness lev… More >>
SPRI ES501R Xertube Resistance Band with Door Attachment and Exercise Charts
#1 by Suzanne on July 21st, 2010
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There’s a lot of good reasons to choose resistance bands to exercise…
-good for home workouts
-great for traveling (some gyms in hotels are just pitiful); these are very portable
-great to use with exercise videos (a lot of ex. DVD’s have you use bands)
What will they do for you?
-tone your muscles
-help you burn a few calories
-make your muscles stronger
-make your bones more dense
Why choose these particular ones?
-they’re pretty sturdy
-come with a door attachment
-exercise charts included
-most find the handles comfortable
-offer different bands with varying levels of difficulty
-reasonably priced
Disadvantages?
-if you look like the incredible Hulk, you’re probably not going to get enough of a workout
-some might find them hard to work with
-some might not like the “feel” of them as they do an exercise
All-in-all they’re a great exercise tool to use to help you get in shape, prevent injuries, or even rehabilitate one (you see these in physical therapy clinics a lot). And don’t forget, once you get comfortable using a given color, move up to the next harder band if you want to keep getting stronger. Also recommend Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow if tennis elbow is interfering with your workouts.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Machine Gun on July 21st, 2010
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This is a good medium band at best, but not even close to being a heavy band. I’m a man, and I use it for several tricep kick back reps. For the average woman, this is a heavy band. My wife uses it for most of her 10 minute trainer exercises, but I only use it for a couple. I found a much heavier black band on amazon, that I highly recommend. To give you an idea about this band; with the biggest loop doing bicep curls, this band equates to MAYBE 20 lbs dumbells. With that other much heavier black band I found; with the same size loop I can barely do 8 reps. I’m guessing its more like 35 lbs and that is a huge difference.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by M. Williams on July 21st, 2010
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I wanted to write this review to help others know more about this product because when I was looking around I was kind of in the dark. I ordered 3: the purple extra heavy, blue heavy, and red medium. I’ve worked out a lot off and on in the past with actual weights, and I’m always moving around, so this was just what I was looking for. Of course, how tall you are will make a difference, as taller people will have more tension in the bands when they are being stretched (if you’re standing, of course, which is a lot of exercises). I’m 5’10″, and unfortuantely my purpose in working out is to build muscle, as I’m kind of on the skinny side. The purple band isn’t for “extremely fit” people, but it does offer a good amount of resistance. Here’s a general guideline of what I found, based on my previous experience with weights:
If I double the purple band (grab both handles at once) and do one arm rows on a chair, depending on where you step on it, you can get a good 40-50 lbs resistance.
If you have one foot on the blue heavy band standing up, and doing curls, it’s about 15-20 lbs each hand.
If you step on the red medium tube about 6-8 inches from the handle and do one arm extensions over your head, it’s about 15 lbs
Again, these bands are very variable. You can increase the amount of tension by stepping closer to the handles, and by holding two bands at once, holding both handles at once, etc.
I would even recommend the green I think or the smaller ones for exercises such as lateral raises and for the rotator cuff, as stepping with one foot on the red tube while standing up, and raising both shoulders outwards provides a good 10-15 lbs.
Chest exercises are kind of awkward with this, my door frame is super weak so I don’t use the door attachment but I tried what was in the instruction manual and am sticking to pushups.
Also it is great for developing stability, it’s a lot harder to keep a stable motion with a cord than with an actual weight.
All in all, I would highly, highly recommend this, but if you’re already benching 150+, this is probably just going to keep you toned, but you could probably build the smaller muscles. Also depends on how many handles you can grab at once or how good your grip is if you grab the actual cord.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by SJ on July 21st, 2010
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This product is amazing. I recently did 5 weeks of bootcamp and we used these resistance tubes every time for biceps, chest, back and shoulders. Its amazing how effective these are and all the time you are just using your body weight. You can make it as easy or as difficult as you want. I had to get them. The green one was a little too light for me and the blue one is a little too tight for a beginner woman. Best part is you can take this lightweight exercise gear anywhere you want and have a good muscle toning workout. Think you can google up the different exercises you can do with these. Plus for the price, it is so cheap, you dont even need to think twice.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Kim on July 21st, 2010
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SPRI ES501R Xertube Resistance Band with Door Attachment and Exercise Charts (Red, Medium)SPRI ES502R Xertube Resistance Band with Door Attachment and Exercise Charts (Blue, Heavy)SPRI ES503R Xertube Resistance Band with Door Attachment and Exercise Charts (Purple, Very Heavy)
Although I haven’t found much wrong with the band itself (beside the fact that the resistance is lighter than I had expected), the term “door attachment” is somewhat misleading. What you’re given is a strap; on one side, there is a loop to pull the band through, and one the other, is what I can only really describe as a small nub.
It makes sense that for such a low price, one shouldn’t expect something that actually firmly attaches to the door, so I do not fault them for what it is, but, a word of caution: absolutely make sure that the door closes completely, and cannot be pulled open without twisting the handle.
I used my band probably ten times, and when I decided that I needed to move further back to create more resistance while doing pull-up simulation exercises (lateral pull-downs), I was shocked to watch the door open and see the band and door attachment flying toward me.
Yes, the door attachment hit me right below my neck AND square in the kisser; the band hit me in the chest. After crying like a little girl and icing my swollen lips and the definite outline of the band on my chest, I realized it wasn’t that bad (I was mostly shocked), but it really could have been, had it hit me in the eye, etc.
I’m sure I sound like an idiot, but heed my warning. I thought my door was securely closed, but boy did I learn the hard way.
Rating: 3 / 5