TRX Training

[veespin]

Anyone tried this?

http://www.fitnessanywhere.com/

I'm signed up for a workshop the weekend before Boston Balance.

I've seen it at the ECA New York but never played with it. The testimonials on the web site rave about it (and why would they lie??) so I'm excited.

Vivienne

[megale3]

I would think it would be easy to store "under your bed" :D
M

[sandy]

They have it at our gym. I havent tried it yet but my workout buddy has and she liked it. It seems to be fairly popular. I have watched the class. Dont know if its worth the extra bucks they charge at my gym to do it.

[Funhog]

I'm thinking of taking the certification...

[cfoam4me]

I got my cert back in the winter and it was great! I have used it with PT clients but also bought one for myself to use at home, outside during the nicer weather. We had a great functional training instructor at my cert and I learned so much from listening to all the functional applications, in addition to all the benefits of the TRX itself.

[NJspin]

The PT's use it with advanced clients at the gym. They let me play with it once. It's not an easy thing to use without some good time and training. It does maximize some of the workouts for sure.

[veespin]

I got my cert back in the winter and it was great! I have used it with PT clients but also bought one for myself to use at home, outside during the nicer weather. We had a great functional training instructor at my cert and I learned so much from listening to all the functional applications, in addition to all the benefits of the TRX itself.

I didn't see anything on their website about a "certification".....unless the course I'm going to is just that.

I ordered the basic trainer bundle at the same time as I booked the course for the same discount so I'll be able to give it a test drive before the day. My daughter's trainer has used one with her a few times and it kicked her butt so I'm expecting great things from it.

Looking at the list of upcoming training sessions, they seem to sell out quickly so it maybe another "wave of the future"

Vivienne

[NWCycle]

Our gym has a training studio with 9 TRX sets. They can only be used by members if they have a trainer with them. One trainer started a special "pay" class. It's so popular it has a waiting list. I've heard nothing but great things. Wish I'd gotten in on the ground floor of this one...

[cfoam4me]

I didn't see anything on their website about a "certification".....unless the course I'm going to is just that.

I ordered the basic trainer bundle at the same time as I booked the course for the same discount so I'll be able to give it a test drive before the day. My daughter's trainer has used one with her a few times and it kicked her butt so I'm expecting great things from it.

Looking at the list of upcoming training sessions, they seem to sell out quickly so it maybe another "wave of the future"

Vivienne

If you are there all day, it will be a certification. They will demonstrate all the exercises and give you a chance to do them too. You also get a really good study guide with margin space to take notes on all you see and hear. We have 14 of them hanging in one of our workout rooms and they are only used in a pay class or with a trainer. We also have one in our "Strive" circuit area with a huge poster showing how to do everything that anyone on the fitness floor can use. The TRX system is great and can really help people improve their strength and flexibility, especially because you use the strive handles to provide assistance for many exercises. I know someone who had a heck of a time doing squats very well and using the TRX to provide that support assistance really helped her achieve her goal of doing a perfect squat. I think it's a very worthwhile certification.

[veespin]

If you are there all day, it will be a certification.

I guess I'm going to be certified, then :)

I'm now on their e-mail list for stuff to do, apparently....

http://www.fitnessanywhere.com/40_40_challenge/?utm_campaign=TRX%2040/40%20Club,%20June%20Shape-up%20Tips%20%2B%20More&utm_content=drviv2u@hotmail.com&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_term=Take%20the%20Challenge%26raquo;

Can't wait to try this one :o

Vivienne

[ChocolatePizzaRedWine]

Hmmm... I was looking at this at another club earlier this week. After your post, I tried to sign up for the workshop, only to find out that it was full. Oh well. I'm sure that it will come again soon!

[veespin]

Hmmm... I was looking at this at another club earlier this week. After your post, I tried to sign up for the workshop, only to find out that it was full. Oh well. I'm sure that it will come again soon!


Call the toll free number....that's what I did just to see if there was a wait-list.....1-888 878 5348

I got through to the sales guy for this area and apparently he'd been away at a conference, got quite a few verbal commitments to the course so he closed it out to make sure there were no over bookings but some of them backed out. This was on Monday.

It's worth a shot.

The guy I spoke to is called Steve Smith. His number is 415 655 4761

Vivienne

[ChocolatePizzaRedWine]

I have a call in to Steve. Fingers crossed. Either way, thanks for the tip!

[veespin]

Can't speak too highly of the customer service with this organisation.

Got my order confirmation on 6/01....and my TRX trainer has just arrived (that's with *FREE* shipping, BTW)

When I placed my order I was promised a % discount for purchasing the trainer combo at the same time as the workshop. Didn't realise that I'd given a verbal OK to the non-discounted price. Got an e-mail from Steve a couple of hours later to let me know he'd adjusted the price to reflect the discount. I wouldn't have noticed and wouldn't have kicked up a fuss if I had but it's nice to know that folk are on the ball about promises etc.

Even if the workshop's as lame as a three legged donkey, I think I'll still be pleased overall. I've spent far more and gotten much less in the past.

Vivienne

[ChocolatePizzaRedWine]

I'm in. Should be interesting!

But if you're driving thru town and see someone dangling by her ankles from a TRX gizmo ... please stop and untangle me! :)

[renee]

Hey Viv,
Will (hubby.. think you met him) went through an all day course. He likes this training and has taken me through many of the exercises. I thought it was tough! Will thinks it can be applied to most people's workout. Let us know what you think.

[lah62]

Just wondering how it went, what your thoughts are. I'm getting certified in TRX in early August - looks like tons of fun and really versatile!
thanks!
LeeAnn

[veespin]

Just wondering how it went, what your thoughts are. I'm getting certified in TRX in early August - looks like tons of fun and really versatile!
thanks!
LeeAnn

Yes it was....tons of fun and a versatile training tool.

We had a good instructor...Bill Sonnemaker....and the other participants were a nice group. As far as I could tell, pretty much everyone was competent before we started so there wasn't too much need to explain the real basic basics (dramatically different from my Spinning orientation years ago, for example, where I could've sworn half the class hadn't been to more than a couple of classes) There was the obligatory know-it-all wise guy who tried hard to give the impression that he didn't need the instruction quite as much as the rest of us. He got his come-uppance when he fell off the device.....there's a secure way of wrapping the handles for one handed moves and, he being so smart, hadn't listened up like us second raters and ended up on the floor. Maybe he did it on purpose he was so good.

One nice touch, Bill encouraged us all to eat together for lunch and, since a couple of the women on the course were locals, they took us to a very nice little cafe.

A good day.....and I met Tara

Vivienne

[like2bike]

You give awesome recaps, Viv! Always learn something from you but you always make me laugh as well. :)

[lah62]

Viv - thanks so much for the recap! I'm really looking forward to this!
LeeAnn

[veespin]

One of the really cool things about this training was the facility.

I guess I'd expected a commercial gym-type set up and, following Mapquest's directions seemed to be getting further away from anything with commercial zoning and wondered if I was getting lost.

Finally got there and it was a class-only place set in a little two story house on a residential looking street (this was in Marblehead, MA)

The owners were a husband and wide duo and the husband was a contractor, apparently and had done the interior himself. Downstairs was a very homey reception area....complete with couches, a wine rack and two German Shorthaired Pointers .... and a Pilates studio. Upstairs was a small Spin studio and the aerobic "room". I'm not good with eyeballing square footage but I'd guesstimate that we weren't occupying too much more than 15'x20'. The TRXs were suspended from fixtures the husband had attached to the exposed ceiling joists and they could be flipped up-and-over when the floor space was required for something else (I saw BOSUs, BodyPump and ather "aerobics" equipment)

Looked like a very nice enterprise all round. The woman I was partnered with was actually in the process of looking at commercial space to start her own gym (brave in this economic climate) and was very taken with it.....snapping photographs and whatnot. I wish I was interested in doing the same sort of thing as it was an unusual departure from what you usually see......although, "what you usually see" might be what you usually see for a good reason.

Vivienne

[NJspin]

Hey V.. that gym sounds like the place where Keli Howe teaches Cyclops Spin Classes ....

[veespin]

Hey V.. that gym sounds like the place where Keli Howe teaches Cyclops Spin Classes ....

Well, I could've sworn that what I caught a glimpse of were NXTs not Cyclops but now that I'm trying to picture the room, I'm not so sure.

Definitely, the gym seemed like a pretty unique set-up to me and not the sort of place that's likely to spawn a lot of "me too" establishments in the same vicinity so you're probably right.

If so, maybe I should keep a look out for the Saris cert to be held there also.

I wish.

Vivienne