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Thinking about trying banded leg presses. Somebody (Stan Efferding?) was talking about how they're supposed to be great for knee pain.

For anyone that does these, what Rogue bands do you use? I'm looking at the website and I don't know what color to start with. I'll probably get a couple different ones, maybe a green and a black? What's the difference between the monster bands and the echo bands?
 
I’ll add onto this if @control doesn’t mind- I need new bands that aren’t complete shit. Recommendations appreciated.

As for OP, check the poundage on the bands but personally I’d get a few different ones, you’ll end up using them for something even if it’s not leg press.
 
control said:
Thinking about trying banded leg presses. Somebody (Stan Efferding?) was talking about how they're supposed to be great for knee pain.

For anyone that does these, what Rogue bands do you use? I'm looking at the website and I don't know what color to start with. I'll probably get a couple different ones, maybe a green and a black? What's the difference between the monster bands and the echo bands?
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I use EliteFTS bands, so the colors don't quite match up. EFS's orange, "light" bands are roughly equivalent to the Rogue greens. And if you've used older iterations from either company, both of these are about the same resistance as the purples. We're talking the full length, medium width bands.

I have found bands to be useful for a few orthopedic issues. Modifying the resistance profile to be more top-heavy can be easier on the knees, but the elasticity just changes the feel of a movement, too...so it's not just the resistance profile. They can also kind of pull you into place in a good way, e.g. on hacks they all but force you to keep your hips under you and use your glutes to stabilize, which actually means more quad tension but a better feel for the knees.

To @SouthernMuscle - I'd recommend EFS's bands any day, I've been using them for close to 20 years, basically my entire lifting life since I discovered bands. You can't go wrong with the MountainDog band pack, although I'm not sure whether you'll have use for the really heavy bands in there...unless you're reverse banding 600+ lb. squats or the heaviest leg press ever, lol. I would go for a pair of Light (orange), a pair of mini (thin, red), and probably a pair of micro (super thin, orange...were yellow up until recently, lol). I haven't found much use for the "short" varieties, but YMMV depending on the machines you're banding.

Basically
  • Light bands - Use bilaterally on leg presses, hacks, and maybe unilaterally on reverse band pressing - doubled over in many cases, depending on the distance between hook points
  • Mini bands - upper body pressing movements, either one or two depending on the use case (I double over one behind the back for DB pressing, you might double over bilaterally for a smith press, etc.)
  • Micro - pumpy movements like pull-aparts, lateral raises, etc.
The minis and micros are also ideal for backstage pump-up...and they're cheap enough to lose :ROFLMAO:

A few examples - I don't use bands a TON, but for certain chest and quad movements I usually keep them in the rotation.

Hacks - 2 single-looped light bands

Sled-style Leg press - 2 doubled-over light bands (this is fucking heavy, but doubled-over minis is probably not enough for almost anyone)

DB press - 1 doubled-over mini
 
Ive had some great leg workouts with banded legpresses with those green eliteFTS bands, the contraction and pump you get with high rep banded leg presses is great too, really satisfies my inner meathead haha.

The negatives and the contraction just feel so smooth and hard and blows your quads up.
 
d4ve said:
I use EliteFTS bands, so the colors don't quite match up. EFS's orange, "light" bands are roughly equivalent to the Rogue greens. And if you've used older iterations from either company, both of these are about the same resistance as the purples. We're talking the full length, medium width bands.

I have found bands to be useful for a few orthopedic issues. Modifying the resistance profile to be more top-heavy can be easier on the knees, but the elasticity just changes the feel of a movement, too...so it's not just the resistance profile. They can also kind of pull you into place in a good way, e.g. on hacks they all but force you to keep your hips under you and use your glutes to stabilize, which actually means more quad tension but a better feel for the knees.

To @SouthernMuscle - I'd recommend EFS's bands any day, I've been using them for close to 20 years, basically my entire lifting life since I discovered bands. You can't go wrong with the MountainDog band pack, although I'm not sure whether you'll have use for the really heavy bands in there...unless you're reverse banding 600+ lb. squats or the heaviest leg press ever, lol. I would go for a pair of Light (orange), a pair of mini (thin, red), and probably a pair of micro (super thin, orange...were yellow up until recently, lol). I haven't found much use for the "short" varieties, but YMMV depending on the machines you're banding.

Basically
  • Light bands - Use bilaterally on leg presses, hacks, and maybe unilaterally on reverse band pressing - doubled over in many cases, depending on the distance between hook points
  • Mini bands - upper body pressing movements, either one or two depending on the use case (I double over one behind the back for DB pressing, you might double over bilaterally for a smith press, etc.)
  • Micro - pumpy movements like pull-aparts, lateral raises, etc.
The minis and micros are also ideal for backstage pump-up...and they're cheap enough to lose :ROFLMAO:

A few examples - I don't use bands a TON, but for certain chest and quad movements I usually keep them in the rotation.

Hacks - 2 single-looped light bands

Sled-style Leg press - 2 doubled-over light bands (this is fucking heavy, but doubled-over minis is probably not enough for almost anyone)

DB press - 1 doubled-over mini
Click to expand...
Great info, many thanks

Won’t be using many machines, still haven’t filled out the garage gym.

Next purchase is either hack squat/leg press combo or solo leg press

Will be mostly used for attaching to bar, and band pegs on the benches
 
Also if you want to do reverse work you can pick up carabiner and a daisy chain. Works good on smith machines or racks that don’t have pegs
 
I use bands during every workout almost now.

They feel amazing on leg press.

They have also made bench pressing enjoyable again 😅
 
I have/use the Rogue ones. Just bought the whole set for the long ones and the short ones. Basically 2 of each color. Got em probably ~3 years ago and still work just fine.

Only thing I notice is that after like 6 months they became chalky. So when I use em I end up with white chalky shit on me. Not a big deal, but worth mentioning.

Cage
 
d4ve said:
I use EliteFTS bands, so the colors don't quite match up. EFS's orange, "light" bands are roughly equivalent to the Rogue greens. And if you've used older iterations from either company, both of these are about the same resistance as the purples. We're talking the full length, medium width bands.

I have found bands to be useful for a few orthopedic issues. Modifying the resistance profile to be more top-heavy can be easier on the knees, but the elasticity just changes the feel of a movement, too...so it's not just the resistance profile. They can also kind of pull you into place in a good way, e.g. on hacks they all but force you to keep your hips under you and use your glutes to stabilize, which actually means more quad tension but a better feel for the knees.

To @SouthernMuscle - I'd recommend EFS's bands any day, I've been using them for close to 20 years, basically my entire lifting life since I discovered bands. You can't go wrong with the MountainDog band pack, although I'm not sure whether you'll have use for the really heavy bands in there...unless you're reverse banding 600+ lb. squats or the heaviest leg press ever, lol. I would go for a pair of Light (orange), a pair of mini (thin, red), and probably a pair of micro (super thin, orange...were yellow up until recently, lol). I haven't found much use for the "short" varieties, but YMMV depending on the machines you're banding.

Basically
  • Light bands - Use bilaterally on leg presses, hacks, and maybe unilaterally on reverse band pressing - doubled over in many cases, depending on the distance between hook points
  • Mini bands - upper body pressing movements, either one or two depending on the use case (I double over one behind the back for DB pressing, you might double over bilaterally for a smith press, etc.)
  • Micro - pumpy movements like pull-aparts, lateral raises, etc.
The minis and micros are also ideal for backstage pump-up...and they're cheap enough to lose :ROFLMAO:

A few examples - I don't use bands a TON, but for certain chest and quad movements I usually keep them in the rotation.

Hacks - 2 single-looped light bands

Sled-style Leg press - 2 doubled-over light bands (this is fucking heavy, but doubled-over minis is probably not enough for almost anyone)

DB press - 1 doubled-over mini
Click to expand...
Chris Edmond’s uses the thinner bands in his shoulder routines to really take a torch to the delts!
 
Golden said:
Chris Edmond’s uses the thinner bands in his shoulder routines to really take a torch to the delts!
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Yea actually I’ve talked to him quite a bit about training, and the main way I use micros is the reverse pec deck / pull-apart superset he does.
 
d4ve said:
I use EliteFTS bands, so the colors don't quite match up. EFS's orange, "light" bands are roughly equivalent to the Rogue greens. And if you've used older iterations from either company, both of these are about the same resistance as the purples. We're talking the full length, medium width bands.

I have found bands to be useful for a few orthopedic issues. Modifying the resistance profile to be more top-heavy can be easier on the knees, but the elasticity just changes the feel of a movement, too...so it's not just the resistance profile. They can also kind of pull you into place in a good way, e.g. on hacks they all but force you to keep your hips under you and use your glutes to stabilize, which actually means more quad tension but a better feel for the knees.

To @SouthernMuscle - I'd recommend EFS's bands any day, I've been using them for close to 20 years, basically my entire lifting life since I discovered bands. You can't go wrong with the MountainDog band pack, although I'm not sure whether you'll have use for the really heavy bands in there...unless you're reverse banding 600+ lb. squats or the heaviest leg press ever, lol. I would go for a pair of Light (orange), a pair of mini (thin, red), and probably a pair of micro (super thin, orange...were yellow up until recently, lol). I haven't found much use for the "short" varieties, but YMMV depending on the machines you're banding.

Basically
  • Light bands - Use bilaterally on leg presses, hacks, and maybe unilaterally on reverse band pressing - doubled over in many cases, depending on the distance between hook points
  • Mini bands - upper body pressing movements, either one or two depending on the use case (I double over one behind the back for DB pressing, you might double over bilaterally for a smith press, etc.)
  • Micro - pumpy movements like pull-aparts, lateral raises, etc.
The minis and micros are also ideal for backstage pump-up...and they're cheap enough to lose :ROFLMAO:

A few examples - I don't use bands a TON, but for certain chest and quad movements I usually keep them in the rotation.

Hacks - 2 single-looped light bands

Sled-style Leg press - 2 doubled-over light bands (this is fucking heavy, but doubled-over minis is probably not enough for almost anyone)

DB press - 1 doubled-over mini
Click to expand...
Nice solid controlled movements right there. And with added banded resistance! NICE!!!!!

Looks like you had a couple of envious fellas side eyeing you in the background. lol!

Cage
 
danieltx said:
Am I the only one here who's never used bands even once?
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I've never used them, but I've been meaning to ever since I saw this video:


If you don't feel like watching it, it's Stan Efferding talking about how banded leg presses alleviated his knee issues
 
d4ve said:
I use EliteFTS bands, so the colors don't quite match up. EFS's orange, "light" bands are roughly equivalent to the Rogue greens. And if you've used older iterations from either company, both of these are about the same resistance as the purples. We're talking the full length, medium width bands.

I have found bands to be useful for a few orthopedic issues. Modifying the resistance profile to be more top-heavy can be easier on the knees, but the elasticity just changes the feel of a movement, too...so it's not just the resistance profile. They can also kind of pull you into place in a good way, e.g. on hacks they all but force you to keep your hips under you and use your glutes to stabilize, which actually means more quad tension but a better feel for the knees.

To @SouthernMuscle - I'd recommend EFS's bands any day, I've been using them for close to 20 years, basically my entire lifting life since I discovered bands. You can't go wrong with the MountainDog band pack, although I'm not sure whether you'll have use for the really heavy bands in there...unless you're reverse banding 600+ lb. squats or the heaviest leg press ever, lol. I would go for a pair of Light (orange), a pair of mini (thin, red), and probably a pair of micro (super thin, orange...were yellow up until recently, lol). I haven't found much use for the "short" varieties, but YMMV depending on the machines you're banding.

Basically
  • Light bands - Use bilaterally on leg presses, hacks, and maybe unilaterally on reverse band pressing - doubled over in many cases, depending on the distance between hook points
  • Mini bands - upper body pressing movements, either one or two depending on the use case (I double over one behind the back for DB pressing, you might double over bilaterally for a smith press, etc.)
  • Micro - pumpy movements like pull-aparts, lateral raises, etc.
The minis and micros are also ideal for backstage pump-up...and they're cheap enough to lose :ROFLMAO:

A few examples - I don't use bands a TON, but for certain chest and quad movements I usually keep them in the rotation.

Hacks - 2 single-looped light bands

Sled-style Leg press - 2 doubled-over light bands (this is fucking heavy, but doubled-over minis is probably not enough for almost anyone)

DB press - 1 doubled-over mini
Click to expand...
Thank you for taking the time to post this, awesome information!
 
danieltx said:
Am I the only one here who's never used bands even once?
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No you’re not the only one. I’ve used them by their self, but never attached to a machine or a free weight. I wish I knew someone that could help me do it. YouTube is great, but this is something in my opinion that I would want a person helping me..
 
BLKGUY2006 said:
No you’re not the only one. I’ve used them by their self, but never attached to a machine or a free weight. I wish I knew someone that could help me do it. YouTube is great, but this is something in my opinion that I would want a person helping me..
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Yeah I don't want to fuck up and lose an eye like Liver King
 
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