Back in the early 1900s, Eugene Sandow, the founding father of bodybuilding, was selling a home exercise device that used rubber resistance bands for strength training. Decades later, elastic bands could be purchased in the 1970s and were marketed as a cheap, safe and effective method for duplicating isokinetic resistance machines. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, elite-level powerlifters had jumped on the “bandwagon” by attaching bands to barbells to push super-human levels of strength. Twent