TRX - Your Sport

No matter what sport you play and no matter the goal, the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ continues to help athletes around the world finish on top.

• TRX® Suspension Training® For Golf
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Football
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Basketball
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Baseball
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Soccer
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Triathlon
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Tennis
• TRX® Suspension Training® For Other Sports

TRX® Suspension Training® For Golf

Golf has become a game of high technology equipment. One often overlooked key piece of equipment is the golfer’s body. Is it stable and strong where it needs to be? Is it mobile and flexible where it has to be? A golfer will always perform better and reduce the risk of injury when properly conditioned.

A powerful swing places a lot of force on the knees, hips, back, shoulders, elbows and wrists. One way to both improve performance and reduce the risk of injury is “core” training. The easiest way to think of your core is your body minus your arms and legs. From your hips to your shoulders, that’s your core, your power center and your key to performance and longevity.

Golf is obviously a game that depends on rotation of the body to deliver power from the ground through the core to the club and finally the ball. However, you continue to see golf exercises that target flexibility and range of motion in the lower spine. The more effective training strategy is to build stability in the lower spine while working to optimize mobility and power in the hips and upper, or thoracic, spine.

The TRX® has become an essential exercise tool for the cutting edge golf performance and injury prevention for coaches, trainers and athletes at all levels.

The benefits in flexibility, strength and power are seen almost immediately. Core conditioning is vital for golf, and Suspension Training® is vital for fast and effective core performance.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Football.

Of all the major sports, football demands some of the most intense strength and conditioning training. But at the same time, football players must maintain the durability to withstand car-wreck force impacts play after play, game after game, season after season.

Traditionally, football players have relied on basic heavy weight lifting like, squats, dead lifts and bench presses to build strength. Unfortunately this is not enough. That’s why top NCAA and NFL programs use Suspension Training® techniques to enable their players to reach their peak potential.

Basic benefits you’ll experience from using the TRX® for football training include:

• Enhancing basic lifts
• Building upper body strength
• Single leg strength, power and reactivity
• Position-specific training
• Unprecedented core strength

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Basketball.

In order to withstand the grueling test of these playoffs, a team must be in peak physical condition. They must train to build strength, mobility and durability. Head Strength & Conditioning Coach of the Boston Celtics believes the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ is the ideal training tool for his team for the following reasons:

• “The TRX® is the perfect piece of equipment to keep that balance of training during the season and not over train.”

• “It really gives me the flexibility to decide what part of the season we are in and how intense we are going to go with our training.”

The Celtics aren’t the only team in the NBA using the TRX® to stay in peak physical condition. Last count, there were at least 15 teams utilizing TRX® Training to stay on top, including other playoff teams such as the Oklahoma Thunder and the LA Lakers.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Baseball

If your weekend plans include making a trip to your local ballpark to take in America’s pastime, pause between bites of that hot dog to note the number of players on the Disabled List. Injuries among Major League Baseball players are on the rise, according to recent research published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In the study, pitchers got hurt most often, accounting for 62 percent of all disability days; most of these injuries are to the serratus anterior muscle (muscle that originates on the surface of the upper eight or nine ribs at the side of the chest and inserts along the entire anterior length of the medial border of the scapula), an important muscle that:

• Helps control shoulder and scapular function (a skeletal muscle situated at the back and side of the neck. As the name suggests, its main function is to lift the scapula.) by protracting and upwardly rotating the scapula (shoulder blade)
• Assists in stabilizing the scapula against the rib cage, preventing scapular winging
• Helps prevent shoulder impingement

Mike Reinold is currently the Head of Athletic Training of the Boston Red Sox and a leading expert in the field of physical therapy, athletic training and strength and conditioning. He has published and lectured extensively regarding topics of rehabilitation and sports medicine. As a leading expert in the field of physical therapy, Mike has developed protocols to address injury to the serratus anterior. Mike began incorporating the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ into his rehabilitation programs.

• “The TRX® is an excellent method of performing the serratus slide exercise that challenges both the strength and stabilizing functions of the serratus muscle”
• “Furthermore, the amount of challenge can quickly be adjusted by modifying the angle of the exercise.”

Keeping the serratus anterior muscle strong will not only give clients and athletes a defined chest but also will keep the shoulder joint stable and healthy. Great news if you’re a MLB pitcher… or planning to dominate on the mound at the next corporate softball game.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Soccer.

Sometimes in other sports, it’s all about lifting weights and strength, but with soccer, it’s so much about how you carry your bodyweight and change directions, and how powerful you are. That’s what so great about the TRX®; everything is bodyweight. Your core is so important in soccer. If you don’t have a good core, you’re not going to be able to do a lot of the movements.

Sometimes not being the most skilled player, can turn into being a more sophisticated player on the ball by TRX® Suspension Training® to help sharpen your skills and continue building on existing levels of strength, balance, flexibility and core stability, all crucial for on-field success.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Triathlon

Swim, Bike, Run

If you’re considering training for your first triathlon, TRX® is for you. In addition to training for the three individual events, triathletes need to think about augmenting their tri training with strength training and integrating the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ into the three events that comprise a triathlon.

SWIM

Swimming is a full body exercise made up of many things. In its simplest form, it includes a reach, pull and rotation. Three TRX® exercises that map directly back to the swim include the following:
1. TRX® Swimmer Pull
2. TRX® Standing Roll Out
3. TRX® Side Plank

BIKE

The bike obviously has a lower body focus. However, there are other things at work. The core, arms, shoulders and back are also engaged and under load. The first exercise below focuses on the core and upper body strength. The second does as well but opens things up in reverse. Three moves that will enhance your bike performance include:
1. TRX® Plank
2. TRX® Overhead Back Extension
3. TRX® Hamstring Curl

RUN

The run is the last leg of triathlon and where the strength training is most realized as your strength and endurance limits are tested. Three moves that directly correlate to run performance include:
1. TRX® Lunge
2. TRX® Sprinter Start
3. TRX® Crossing Balance Lunge
These are only a few solid TRX® moves that have a direct functional application back to the sport of triathlon. There are many others and various ways to do them, depending on your goals.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Tennis

Back in the old days, young tennis players would train by playing tennis. More inspired coaches might add soccer and basketball scrimmages to improve agility and overall endurance. But mainly, it was a technician’s game dominated by good ball strikers.

Lately, the game has become more physical and training young players is more of an art form with a heavy emphasis on physical conditioning. It’s survival of the fittest…and the fittest are bringing home the trophies. Today, thanks to the guidance of the USTA and inspired rec coaches all over the world, young players are incorporating TRX® Training to improve their competitiveness.

TRX® Training tools are growing in use throughout youth, amateur and professional tennis communities because they help players develop the all-important core stability, rotational power and balance that are essential for a smooth, powerful stroke – not to mention overall fitness. Plus, TRX® scales well to the players ability as they develop their physical abilities.

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TRX® Suspension Training® For Other Sports

The List of Sports goes on and on that has incorporated TRX® Training into their fitness program such as:

• Martial Arts
• MMA
• Motocross

No matter what sport you play and no matter the goal, the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ continues to help athletes around the world finish on top.