As we move towards summer and have more sunlight it’s great to see a lot more people out and about exercising, whether it be jogging the streets, riding their bike along Beach road or competing in triathlons. That’s the great thing about Melbourne and even Australia, we have the ability to enjoy and/or participate in a variety of different activities and sports.

Talking about “variety”, last weekend as part of our Certificate IV curriculum, we focused in on the broad range of equipment which is used by Personal Trainers. We talked about all the standard, pilates equipment, swiss/fitness balls, medicine balls, dura discs, body bars, wobble boards, chi balls etc. However there was one piece of equipment that I didn’t know too much about which is huge in America called the TRX.

We had Shannon White from Suspension Fitness Training Australia come in and tell us all about the TRX, which was just recently brought to Australian soil. Suspension Fitness Training Australia has big plans for the TRX and they expect it to grow as big as Pilates and Swiss Balls. In its short time in Australia it has already been adopted by many AFL and Rugby League clubs.

What is Suspension Training/TRX you ask...
Suspension Training is a unique training modality that uses our own body weight and gravity as resistance.  Contrary to the rings in gymnastics, TRX Suspension Training has one anchor point and is ground based; therefore we are able to recreate athletic movements freely.  The simplicity of the TRX allows us to transition fluidly from exercise to exercise and work endurance, strength, power, balance, coordination, core, and flexibility in one piece of equipment that does over 300 exercises for a little over $200! It’s small and portable weighing less than 1kg.

As a Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor or regular gym goer, what’s your favourite piece of equipment to use, submit your answer by following 2 easy steps: Click View/Add Comment, below, fill in and submit. Results of survey to come in next blog.

Congratulations to recent graduates

Certificate III in Fitness
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Peter Lechte
Dale Rogers
Monique Aza
Mark Scotland

Certificate IV in Fitness
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Linda Vaccaro
Shannon Lyons
Natalie Martin
Andrew Tsouparidis
Elizabeth Braithwaite

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Yours in health and fitness

Chris Alexander

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