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Program Review: TRX Total Strength

Erik
10 min readApr 17, 2020

Back again after the two week program included with the purchase of any TRX system: TRX Total Strength. This review assumes you have at least some familiarity with suspension training, if you don’t, check out my general review of suspension training and then head on back here.

My gym for the last month

Total Strength is one of a handful of what the TRX app calls “Training Programs.” These are essentially different included workouts with the app placed on days of the week and scheduled for you to do as if they are a program. So, there’s nothing new to Training Programs that you can’t already find by just searching around the app for workouts, it just tells you what days to do what workouts.

Like last time, my traditional tracking point for progress, one rep max, is not available to me. So we’ll keep with these body measurements:

  • Body weight: 187 lbs -> 189 lbs
  • Body fat: 15.7% -> 16.5%
  • Arms: ~16 inches -> ~15 inches
  • Legs: ~25 inches -> ~26 inches

And, like last time again, it’s best not to read too much into these numbers. Only two weeks passed, even if that is the whole “program.” But, in general, these programs included with TRX are very fast. I am used to 8 weeks at shortest for a program, but I’ve done stuff that’s lasted over three months. Even some of…

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Erik
Erik

Written by Erik

Hi. I make movies and lift weights. I write about the latter here.

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