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The Ultimate Home Gym…To Go!

It’s one thing to have an exercise apparatus that’s fun to use and delivers results in the privacy of your own home. It’s an entirely new ballgame when that piece of equipment weighs less than two pounds, folds up into the size of a toiletry bag and can literally travel with you anywhere to deliver a whole-body functional workout on your time, wherever you like (home, hotel room, outdoors, gym, beach, etc.), and all within a single station. Add the fact that the TRX System by Fitness Anywhere could replace your gym membership for about $150 bucks and now you’ve got a recession-proof (and excuse-proof) fitness program. Not bad, eh?…and it all stems from Navy SEAL ingenuity!
Two of the latest trends in fitness are functional training and bodyweight-basedexercise. The TRX System is a fusion of these fitness methods and has created a new genre of fitness called Suspension Training. Suspension Training is considered by some to be the evolution of functional training because of it’s emphasis on core engagement and it’s ability to work the body through all three planes of motion (saggital, frontal and transverse).
Suspension Training with the TRX System allows users to make exercises easier or more difficult with simple adjustments in hand and/or foot position, and this can even be done on the fly. Due to it’s versatility, TRX is appropriate for use by kids, baby boomers, weekend warriors and elite athletes alike. No matter how strong or weak you are, there are ways to progress or regress the intensity (hence difficulty) within dozens of exercises so that you’ll not only have a workout for how your body is today, you’ll have a fitness method that can accommodate your improved physique  for years to come.
Why do I love the TRX? I used to be a gym rat who lifted a lot of iron to get strong but found it didn’t improve my athleticism or protect me from injury as much as I would have liked. Since using the TRX System about three years ago (still using the same one!), I’ve become healthier and fit enough to try making a comeback as a professional beach volleyball player on the AVP Tour – at age 38!

Each TRX System comes with the following:

  • TRX Suspension Trainer
  • Instructional DVD
  • Fitness Guide
  • Travel Pouch
  • 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee

For additional support, check out their video library for clips on set up and use, upper body exercises, lower body exercises and core exercises. I’ll soon have some videos of my own that I’ll share through this Blog and my website – www.VirtualWorkoutPartner.com so please come back and visit often…and follow my AVP comeback efforts on this Blog too!…see folder titled “The Comeback of 09′”

TRX used on the Biggest Loser

TRX used on the Biggest Loser TV show