Measuring the resistance for the bands

[togotooner]

Hopefully Bruce will see this. Bruce I recall a long while ago I saw a video (or maybe it was a web page with static images)  that showed how you measured the weight resistances for the black band and yellow band that you sell for the Hook. Reason I ask is that I created one of my own using some latex surgical tubing I found at our local hardware store. It is a bit wider in diameter (not by much) than the black ones rated at 15 lbs. I feel that this one I created is about 20lbs in equivalence to weights but not sure how to test it. Did you attach a weight to the band and suspend it to see if the band could hold it at a certain height? Am I overthinking it a bit and perhaps you had an easier way?

Sorry if this a silly question.


td

[Bruce Tackett]

Hello, togo.............

Yes. The average distance the bands are stretched for most exercises is 2 1/2 times their lengths, so that's where I determined their weight. I taped a tape measure to a hook and suspended the bands from the hook with weights attached. When the attached weights had stretched the bands to two and a half times their lengths, then that's what I deemed their weights to be. As it happened, it took 15 lbs. to stretch the black bands that far, and 5 lbs. for the amber bands. I have some pictures of that, but I can't find them.