The TRX is such a great training tool for several reasons, but one of my favorites is the ability to get a great strength endurance workout with them. Since you can quickly switch from one exercise to another and modify the difficulty as you fatigue it offers a great way to challenge your work capacity, which is a key factor to improving your endurance on the trail. However, while your ability to “work hard” is important, an often overlooked factor is just as important – your ability to recover between your hard efforts.
The best way to improve this ability is to focus on your Recovery Breathing between those hard efforts.
A good Recovery Breath is driven from the diaphragm and is much more effective as a recovery tool but, like anything else, it has to be trained. One of the most effective ways that I have found to do this is to focus not on how long you have to rest between exercises but how many recovery breathes you take.
For example, instead of telling you to rest for 15 seconds between exercises I would tell you to take 3 recovery breaths, starting the next exercise at the end of the 3rd breath. This shift in focus gets you thinking about the quality of your recovery more than how long it is which can really highlight some deficiencies in that area.
Below is a video where I show you a circuit using 3 common TRX exercises – the Push Up, Inverted Row and Jump Squat - with this Recovery Breath focus between exercises.
In it I explain what a good Recovery Breath should feel like as well as some coaching cues to help you get more out of the circuit. By focusing some of your cardio training on your breathing you can improve an often overlooked area in most mountain bike training programs, giving you a “lung up” on everyone else.
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if you burn herbal remedies up a mountain won't it accelerate global warming,and "what global warming will do to the human population ?".
Protour getting positive props is a sign of the end of times .
they have home kits for TRX as for P90X tried it and quickly moved onto INSANITY and then GSP RUSHFIT , both of those kicked my ass way more then P90X ever did
Most of our 24hr clubs have trx, kbells, rope, n foam rollers now!
Insert prodigy song, "breathe with me", here.