TRX Advantages for Bootcamp Training

Fitness Anywhere — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:30:00 GMT

The TRX provides considerable advantages over other pieces of equipment a bootcamp instructor might use in a class. Consider that:

Packed in its stuff sack, the TRX weighs less than two pounds and takes up about as much space as a sack lunch.
Setting up the TRX takes less than a minute and it’s easy to teach a class how to set up the TRX themselves.
Even if a trainer is working with a large class, he or she can easily toss thirty TRX’s in the backseat of a vehicle and move them in and out with little effort—something not as easily achieved with, say, thirty 45-pound kettle bells.
While most pieces of equipment a trainer might consider adding to a class are bulky and only suitable for a limited range of exercises, the hundreds of exercises that can be performed on the TRX mean that class participants will never get bored and trainers have virtually unlimited options to choose from when programming a class.
Whatever aspect of fitness a trainer chooses to emphasize in each class, there are TRX exercises perfectly suited to each aim.
Not everyone who takes a bootcamp class represents the zenith of physical perfection. When bootcamps do use kettle bells or weights, it can be psychologically challenging for less conditioned trainees who can’t move as much weight as their neighbors. With the TRX, the heaviest, most deconditioned person can do the same exercises as the most fit person at his or her own level without having to swap out weights, move to another station or disrupt the flow of the group.
Trainees can instantly adjust the level of resistance they experience when using the TRX by taking a step towards or away from the TRX or performing exercises with a single arm or leg instead of using both. This allows every trainee, even in a large class, to do every exercise at his or her own level, every time.
Once trainees experience the TRX and become familiar with TRX exercises in class, bootcamp organizers can sell participants TRX’s and home training plans that complement the work trainees do in class. It’s an easy way to create a new profit center on top of class fees with little extra effort.
The TRX’s heritage of use in Navy SEAL teams provides an excellent marketing opportunity for bootcamp operators. Trainees who work out on the TRX are getting the same advanced functional training that’s used by the military’s most elite soldiers.
With hundreds of exercises, you and your trainees will not get bored using the TRX.

Next, we’ll take a look at how Washington, DC-based trainer Corey Belin has taken his bootcamp classes to the next level with the TRX.

Until then! FA

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TRX Advantages for Bootcamp Training