By Brian Diaz This is one of my favorite exercises for endurance athletes of all types. It focuses on developing isolateral leg strength, balance and stability while adding a high intensity element with an increase in velocity. While facing the TRX anchor point, place the handles in each hand,
By Brian Diaz The TRX Saw is one of my favorite exercises for core activation. When done correctly, it stimulates all the essential stabilization muscles, such as the transverse abdominus, obliques and multifidi – as well as the muscle that we all want to see in the mirror, the
By Brian Diaz This move is one of the best for getting activation of the shoulder stabilizers. Swimmers, cyclists, rowers and obstacle-course athletes alike will be strong when it counts! For the external rotation “W,” start the movement standing and facing the TRX anchor point. The handles should be
By Brian Diaz Sitting in the corner of many gyms, including some of ours, is that dusty old angled bench that makes many exercisers wonder, “What do you do with that weird-looking bench?” Gone are the days of the traditional preacher bench bicep curl that frequented every chain
By Brian Diaz Many of you, I’m sure, have been dying to get a few core specific exercises in your developing TRX routine. This month, we will add the TRX crunch. This exercise is tough for many reasons, but one of the main ones is the amount
By Brian Diaz Last month we covered a version of the bicep curl, so as a natural progression, this month we will go over a complementing tricep extension. This move is very similar to the overhead triceps rope that people do on the cable column. Start by placing
By Brian Diaz Continuing with our introduction into upper body exercises, this month we’ll add a full-body dynamic move that brings in the shoulders. I use this movement often to warm up and start the TRX session. But you can also advance this into a more explosive plyometric series
By Brian Diaz When runners think of cross-training, they may think of swimming or cycling. But what does cross-training mean for triathletes who already spend considerable time swimming, cycling, and running throughout the year? The answer: strength training. Strength training will help triathletes strengthen those muscles generally not
By Brian Diaz Most of the exercises that we have covered so far in this column have had a lower body focus. With the next few we will give the lower body a break and use the trainer to warm up the upper body. This month
By Brian Diaz Continuing with our introduction to the TRX Suspension Trainer, here's another full-body functional multijoint movement that is a great way to get warmed up and rolling with the trainer with a little bit of a stretch of the lower extremities. Start out facing the TRX
