Having found the TRX, I am now using it with a varied client base. The uses are so vast from back care programmes to training well balanced in shape individuals.

I have been training a client of 19st with the TRX, who has some restricted shoulder movement. Using the TRX with the shoulder warm ups is starting to give benefit to the guy. He feels how you have to work that much harder during the sessions by using your own body weight as the resistance even on a low level.

I have been around the fitness industry for some 20+ years, having the TRX in my arsenal of kit to train my clients is a real added bonus to the intensity of their workouts. It targets the core in every drill that you challenge them to do. Using it from a first progression to a high advanced progression they get the workout that is needed. Firefighters think its a great way to have their workouts - anywhere.

To be able to attach it to wherever you wish means your training studio is wherever you wish. I think its a fantastic piece of kit. On a personal note of my own use of the TRX as a personal trainer who uses it from my wheelchair, I can use the balancing on my back wheels as the pivot point. Shoulder warm ups are good from the seated position. If you can activate your core depending on your challenge, it will give a good targeted warm up, main session and stretch as long as you add other training equipment to your arsenal. Even without being able to activate your core the workout should be a good one. Using a ramp to add gravity as your resistance is a good way to train, or find a hill and attach to an achor point is fine as long as the achor point gives you an even line of pull as your gravity.

Paul Bradbury
Personal Trainer