In the personal training studio I use a TRX Suspension Trainer everyday to provide some supplemental exercises. For example, I use it to do chest presses (push ups), rows, assisted squats, one-leg squats and what they call the “power pull”. I like to do many of these exercises as warm up exercises because it uses bodyweight as the resistance and it is easy to incorporate stability aspects to the workout.
Yesterday, I decided to do a complete workout on the system and start to experiment with some more advanced exercises. Specifically I really wanted to challenge my core and see if I could get a complete workout. We’ve been using it so long as an accessory I wanted to test it out as a primary piece of equipment.
I’m a little sore today, but that is expected as I still haven’t recovered from the EndureChallenge and any lower body work makes me sore. My abs and triceps have also been a little sore today. Does being sore mean that it is a good workout? NO. But I was able to challenge some stabilizing muscles in my upper body in uncoventional ways and the core work is pretty challenging. There are still some core exercises that I’ve seen done that I wasn’t able to do.. maybe soon?
I’m going to try and incorporate one workout a week done completely on the TRX for a while and see how it works out. I’ll let you know.
In full disclosure, I have signed onto their affiliate program. Which means they give me a commission if you follow my links to their site and decide to purchase a system. I have used the system in the studio everyday for over a year and really like it, so I feel good promoting the equipment. I’m just excited to see how I can use it as a complete system. It could be a great piece of equipment to own for some of my more mobile clients, if I can create complete programs with the system.
Here’s a youtube video to motivate you a little (I’ll see about adding some videos of my own in the near future). The exercises around 1:42 into the video are the one’s that I have not been able to do yet?
In the personal training studio I use a TRX Suspension Trainer everyday to provide some supplemental exercises. For example, I use it to do chest presses (push ups), rows, assisted squats, one-leg squats and what they call the “power pull”. I like to do many of these exercises as warm up exercises because it uses bodyweight as the resistance and it is easy to incorporate stability aspects to the workout.
Yesterday, I decided to do a complete workout on the system and start to experiment with some more advanced exercises. Specifically I really wanted to challenge my core and see if I could get a complete workout. We’ve been using it so long as an accessory I wanted to test it out as a primary piece of equipment.
I’m a little sore today, but that is expected as I still haven’t recovered from the EndureChallenge and any lower body work makes me sore. My abs and triceps have also been a little sore today. Does being sore mean that it is a good workout? NO. But I was able to challenge some stabilizing muscles in my upper body in uncoventional ways and the core work is pretty challenging. There are still some core exercises that I’ve seen done that I wasn’t able to do.. maybe soon?
I’m going to try and incorporate one workout a week done completely on the TRX for a while and see how it works out. I’ll let you know.
In full disclosure, I have signed onto their affiliate program. Which means they give me a commission if you follow my links to their site and decide to purchase a system. I have used the system in the studio everyday for over a year and really like it, so I feel good promoting the equipment. I’m just excited to see how I can use it as a complete system. It could be a great piece of equipment to own for some of my more mobile clients, if I can create complete programs with the system.
Here’s a youtube video to motivate you a little (I’ll see about adding some videos of my own in the near future). The exercises around 1:42 into the video are the one’s that I have not been able to do yet?