Full Description
Your essential guide to Suspension Training®
Since its development over a decade ago, Suspension Training® has remained a popular choice for developing strength, stability, core power, flexibility, and balance because it delivers results. Used by the best of the best, from personal trainers to the elite athletes they work with, Suspension Training® is a respected and essential component of conditioning programs worldwide.
Approved and endorsed by TRX®, the global leader in functional training products, programming, and education, the Complete Guide to TRX® Suspension Training®, Second Edition, is the authoritative resource on safe, effective, and optimal use of Suspension Training® and programming. Written by renowned strength and conditioning expert Dr. Jay Dawes, the book offers 100 exercises, 40 variations, and 24 ready-to-use programs designed to take your workouts to unprecedented levels. The second edition is packed with full-color photos, demonstrating how to perform each exercise, as well as 14 assessments to help determine fitness level and gauge training progress.
Complete Guide to TRX® Suspension Training® also shows you how to incorporate Suspension Training® into circuit training and injury prevention programs as well as programs for improving strength and power, speed and agility, balance and stability, and flexibility.
If you are tired of repetitive workout routines, sick of waiting for equipment at a crowded gym, or simply looking to enhance your current regimen, look no further than Complete Guide to TRX® Suspension Training®.
Note: Fitness Anywhere LLC has granted Human Kinetics Inc. permission to use TRX® trademarks in accordance with TRX Trademark Usage Guidelines for the purposes of publishing Complete Guide to TRX® Suspension Training®.
Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.
Contents
Part I. Science of Suspension Training
Chapter 1. Foundations of Suspension Training
Chapter 2. Benefits of Suspension Training
Chapter 3. Setup, Safety, and Success
Chapter 4. Physical Testing and Assessment
Part II. Suspension Training Exercises
Chapter 5. Upper-Body Exercises
Chapter 6. Lower-Body Exercises
Chapter 7. Core Exercises
Part III. Suspension Training Programs
Chapter 8. Foundations of Program Design
Chapter 9. Circuit Training
Chapter 10. Prehabilitation
Chapter 11. Strength and Power
Chapter 12. Speed and Agility
Chapter 13. Balance, Stability, and Flexibility
