Your resistance training just got a whole lot better. With the Fit Stik Pro, you’ll get a more barbell-like feeling with your workouts, bringing more familiarity to your arm and chest workouts. With this guide, learn more about how the Fit Stik Pro accommodates and maximizes both symmetrical and asymmetrical exercises, how to use it for preparation in sports training, and more movements to get you started.
The Fit Stik Pro is approximately 39 inches long with eyelets on both ends to attach Slastix resistance bands or whatever other cable machine you plan on using it with. These eyelets swivel freely in a 360-degree range to make it easy to use for a variety of movements.
Users of the Fit Stik Pro aren’t always using Slastix resistance bands along with it. It is often used as cable machine attachment or with other resistance bands that you may already have.
This product can work in a number of ways depending on what muscle group you’re working on.
Its most common uses are to work as a barbell-like resistance trainer, adding stability to movements, or to use functionally for athletic movements like swinging and chopping.
The Fit Stik Pro is helpful in a number of ways depending on how you attach it. A big difference in how to use it is whether you’re looking for symmetrical or asymmetrical resistance.
Working symmetrically with the Fit Stik Pro means you’ll have both ends attached to resistance bands or cables. This will make it possible for your limbs, whether arms or legs, to support each other and keep your movements even. This can include movements like a press, curl, lift, or row.
Asymmetry gets introduced to your routine either by applying more force to one side of the Fit Stik Pro than another, or by attaching your resistance bands or cable to just one end of the Fit Stik Pro in some exercises. Working in this way helps to isolate muscles, work one side of your body more than another if needed, and can also accommodate functional movements that are better used in sports or everyday use. Asymmetrical movements may include alternating rows and twists. It also includes a lot of movements that would be symmetrical but become asymmetrical by connecting just one side of the Fit Stik Pro.
The Fit Stik Pro serves as a functional training tool for athletic training in many contexts. Whether it’s a baseball bat, a kayaking oar, or a hockey stick, replace your playing instrument with the Fit Stik Pro, attach Slastix resistance bands, and you’ll be on your way to strengthening those explosive muscles to elevate your performance.
To work athletic movements with the Fit Stik Pro, attach your resistance band or cable machine to one end of the bar. Hold the bar in the same fashion as you would your athletic instrument. Practice those same in-competition movements that you would use in a game or match, only with the Fit Stik Pro and the added variable resistance of the attached band or cable.
If the length of the Fit Stik Pro makes it difficult for you to use in certain movements, that’s ok. For example, trying to swing the Fit Stik Pro like a baseball bat, holding it on one end with hands close together, could be difficult to establish a controlled exercise. This issue can be solved to a degree with the standard Fit Stik, a shorter version that would provide better leverage.