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I have a collection of exercise bands in my basement. They are so light and small that they have survived several purges of the basement. They don’t take up much space, so they haven’t gone to Good Will like the Bosu Ball did.

The reason they are in the basement instead of being used each day is I don’t really know how to use them. I don’t know how to do the exercises that I was taught in that Weight Training class I took in high school. This workout shows the ingenious ways to use resistance bands for a wide variety of exercises:

• About.com – Upper Body Mixed Resistance Workout – by Paige Waehner

She is also holding dumbells in some of these pictures, but it is very clear how to place the resistance band in order to get the workout you need. If you’re a power user, then you might need dumbells in addition to the bands, but for a lot of us, just getting started is the hard part.