TRX Loop Exercise Guide

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We have made detailed instructions for the most popular TRX loop exercises. These shells will greatly diversify your workout!

If dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells and treadmills already turn you on, then it's time to try something new. TRX loops are a great way to diversify your workouts by adding static, balance and simply super hard exercises that are already a little challenge to complete.

All you need to do these exercises is the loops themselves and any bar you can attach them to. Are you hooked? Get ready to experience the sensations you have never experienced before! And to make it easier to get started, we've prepared instructions on how to do the most popular exercises.

Upper body

Technique: standard push-ups that each of us did at least once in our life (I hope more). Take the loops in your hands and take the starting position. The body weight should be resting on the arms. Keeping your body straight, bend your elbows and lower yourself down. You should feel the muscles in your chest and shoulders engage.

Technique: this exercise can be performed as an alternative to the bench press. Starting position: the body is tilted, arms in front of you and bent at the elbows. Slowly lower your body down, linger at the bottom point for a few seconds and return to the starting position.

Technique: insert both legs into the straps and take the starting position with your palms on the floor. The starting position is no different from the usual plank. Now slowly bring your legs to your chest and spread your knees to your elbows. So what if you look like a toad, but strengthen the muscles of the torso!

Technique: an excellent combined exercise that involves three muscle groups at once. Take the same starting position as in the previous exercise. Then, keeping your body straight, bend forward, moving your arms up until they create a line with the body. Hold this position and slowly return to the starting position.

Technique: a hellish exercise, which I do not advise you to do without proper preparation. But if you are a former Navy SEAL or have studied aikido for 10 years, then you can take the risk. Stand up straight with your arms outstretched in front of you as if you were Superman. Now slowly bend them at the elbows to feel how the triceps tighten. Return slowly to the starting position.

Technique: grab both handles with one hand and lean back. Having taken the starting position, pull the body to the loops, bending the arm at the elbow. Remember not to bend your body and do the exercise abruptly.

Technique: similar to the previous exercise, in which the load is not emphasized on one arm. Take the loops in both hands, straighten them and take the starting position. Pull your body up to the hinges and slowly return to the starting position.

Technique: the body is diagonally to the floor, the loops are taut. Pull your torso forward, moving one arm up and the other down. Return to the starting position and do the same by changing hands.

Technique: stand facing the hinges and hold them in both hands. Lean back all the way so that your arms are straight and the loops are taut. Slowly bend your elbows and hold this position for a few seconds. Then slowly return to the starting position.

Technique: take the starting position lying with outstretched arms. Lean your body forward (swing your abs, in general) and bend your elbows. This combination exercise will help you diversify your workout and not die of boredom. By the way, here are some more ways you can make your workout less boring.

Lower body

Technique: the best exercise for the lower body. TRX add a bit of instability to this exercise. Take a starting position, standing straight and keeping your arms parallel to the floor. Keeping your back straight, squat down so that your knees bent at a 90-degree angle. Then slowly come back.

Technique: a weighted version of the previous exercise. The technique remains the same, the difficulty changes. Please note that if you have knee problems, then it is better to refrain from doing this exercise.

Technique: For me personally, attacks are hell. They so pierce the back of the legs that moving the next day is not an easy task. Lunges in TRX are both harder and easier at the same time. Here you also have to keep the balance of the body. With your back to the hinges, insert your leg into both straps. Now squat slowly on your free leg, while the other leg in the TRX should slowly go up. Done correctly, you will feel tension in your glutes and core muscles.

Technique: lie face up with your hands at your waist. Insert your legs into the loops and pull them down a little to check if they are well secured. Then slowly lift your lower back up, fix this position and return to the starting position. There is no need to twitch in convulsions and call inertia for help!

Technique: take the starting position. It is important that the fingers point towards the TRX and not vice versa. Alternately, bring your legs to the body and return them to their original position. You can do this exercise as fast as you can without losing your technique.

Technique: the starting position is 100% familiar to you. This is the standard bar. But then everything will not be so simple. Rotate your body around its axis to one side, stretching your arm up. Hold this position as much as you can, then return to the starting position and repeat on the other side. We were able to shoot this exercise from the fourth time. Three times before that, I could not hold out for a second and fell. Will you break my record?

Technique: a regular plank can also be easily made with the TRX. To do this, insert your legs into the loops and take the original lying position. Put on a stopwatch and enjoy the sensations.