Doesn’t have it’s place in the proverbial “fitness toolbox.”  On the contrary, as I type this blog, we have two pair at Cressey Performance no more than 50 feet from my desk, and we actually have a TRX representative traveling to Hudson this Friday to take us through a staff in-service.

Furthermore, I think they’re absolutely awesome for those people who travel a lot for work and otherwise have limited access to a gym.  Too, outside of the athletic realm, I’ve found them to be very useful when training overweight clients, in addition to the elderly clients that I work with on a weekly basis.

That said, what really gets my goat is when people in the industry try to pass them off as the panacea of fitness- much like what happens whenever you hear someone talk about yoga or pilates.  I’m not a TRX guy. I’m not a kettlebell guy.  I’m not a powerlifting guy, nor am I an Olympic lifting guy.  I’m a results guy- albeit I do incorporate components of all the above into my programming.

Amie Douse, one of our very own Australian Kettlebell Workshop presenters, has written an but for article on the use of ballistic kettlebell exercises as excess training for the MMA athlete.

Jamie has a laundry list of credentials as big as your arm. He has been knotty in the tone dynamism 20 + years, specialising in kettlebell training & instruction for the last 4. He has received instruction from Steve Cotter, Rick Ravensdale, Ben Minos, Phil Kourbatski, Don Stevenson and the important Vasily Ginko, under whom he recently achieved Equal 2 Patriotic GS Preceptor accreditation.

His services have been utilised by everyone from standard in the main joes to elite even athletes, including businesslike imprison fighter Shaun Spooner. Currently his adroitness in the sphere of force & conditioning is employed by South West Vale Tudo & Obscure Pugnacious Arts.

He trains the trainers in his r as a lecturer in the Office of Suitability, Humour & Enjoyment at TAFE and trade qualifications take in

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