The Resistance 90 is a full-body training kit designed for you to be able to set up your own personal gym anywhere. With this guide, it’ll be easy for you to get your Resistance 90 all set up and ready to go, learn how to anchor it properly, and what exercises will get you going on your fitness journey.
In the Resistance 90 kit is a Spine Strap to serve as your anchor, a collapsible bar, and a specialized dual-handle Slastix resistance band with a steel carabiner clip for anchoring. The collapsible bar is an effective tool for stabilizing muscles during a workout and adding a dumbbell-like element to your exercise routine.
The Resistance 90 offers numerous exercise options, whether anchored to the Spine Strap or not, and the setup is easy to accomplish. Rather than having to rely on a gym membership or set up complicated, expensive equipment for different exercises.
As a portable resistance training system, the Resistance 90 consists primarily of two elements, the band and the anchor. The resistance band of the Resistance 90 is specially built to anchor in a number of ways.
The first way to anchor the Resistance 90 band is with the accompanying Spine Strap. The Spine Strap is specially designed by Stroops as an at-home multi-point door anchor that fits in your home, office, or anywhere else you have a door and some space to move.
The Spine Strap gives you seven (7) anchor points going from just above the ground all the way to the top of a 7-foot door. To attach your Slastix resistance band, just hook up the sewn-in steel carabiner clip in the center to whichever anchor point best supports the exercise you’re doing.
You can also anchor your Resistance 90 band in other ways. The elongation of the band via the fabric strap in the middle makes it a viable outdoor use product by just wrapping it around a pole, tree, fence, or any other natural anchor.
There are also many more exercises that are best suited by using yourself as the anchor. By standing on top of the strap and using vertical movements, you’ll unlock many more uses for the Resistance 90.
Let’s go through how to assemble and set up every part of the Resistance 90, starting from the attachments.
- To assemble the bar, join the halves together by inserting the narrow end into the wide end and twisting it shut so that the metallic notches lock into place.
- Attach the Resistance 90 band to the bar by unscrewing the cap on each end of the bar, then insert a handle into each end so that the handle straps are coming out of the slit on each end.
- Screw the caps back on to secure the band in place. Check to make sure that the slits are both facing the same way. If they are not, twist the bar back open and correct it.
- To set up the Spine Strap, bring the thin, black strap all the way up to the buckle at the top. Make sure that the actual spine portion of the strap with the Stroops logo is facing outside of the loop while the softer orange side is facing inside.
- Pull the strap through the buckle from back to front. Bring it through just enough to make a large loop.
- Wrap the Spine Strap around your door. There are two stitched fabric lips near the top of the strap that should go on either side of the top of the door. These are to stabilize the strap.
- Once the Spine Strap is in place, pull on the black strap behind the door until the Spine Strap is firmly fastened to the door.
- With your Spine Strap set up, attach your Resistance 90 band to any of the seven anchor points by hooking up the steel clip to it. You’re ready to go!
If you’re on the go using your Resistance 90 band outdoors or elsewhere, and your Spine Strap is not an option, anchoring is still easy. Find the object you’re anchoring to and wrap the band around it. Then, pull the band through the loop for a sturdy tie-down anchor, and go to work!