The TRX has to be one of my favourite pieces of equipment to use both with clients and for my own training. All of my clients love TRX training – it’s fun and allows you to perform exercises that you couldn’t do with any other piece of equipment. The TRX was originally used in the Navy SEALs and is brilliant tool to develop strength, balance, flexibility and core stability. This type of suspension training uses your own bodyweight and gravity to do hundreds of different exercises and allows you to vary the difficulty and resistance depending on how you position your body with each exercise.

There are loads of great leg exercises that you can do on the TRX. You can do squats, jump squats and one leg pistol squats whilst holding the handles of the TRX or alternatively try placing one foot in the hoops and doing one leg squats, lunges and burpees. For the backs of your legs, hook both feet into the hoops and lie on your back to do some hamstring pull ins – they really burn but are brilliant for isolating and developing your hamstrings.

For your chest try hooking your toes through the hoops of the TRX and do some press ups or grab the handles and do a chest press with your weight forwards into the straps. You’ll really feel your core working when you do these as your body tries to keep stable.

If you’re looking to work your biceps, back and shoulders then a low row on the TRX is a great one. Grab the handles with your palms facing together. Lean all the way back until weight is on your heels, arms extended out in front of you until your body forms a diagonal. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and keep your core tight as you bend your elbows and pull your torso up to meet your hands. Lower and then return to the start again. To make this more challenging do exactly the same movement but using just one arm to pull yourself up. You can also try doing a tricep extension on the TRX by holding the handles with an overhand grip. Shift your weight to the balls of your feet as you extend your arms out in front of you at eye level. Bend your elbows until your hands are behind your head, with your elbows either side of your face. It’s a really small movement but it’s super effective for strengthening your triceps.

You’ll be working your core in all of these exercises but to really target your abs on the TRX make sure you do some mountain climbers, planks, side planks, pikes and pendulums all with your feet hooked into the straps. I definitely think that the TRX is one of the best pieces of equipment to develop your core strength – your core will be on fire after just a few reps of each exercise and you’ll really be able to feel it the next day!

The thing that I love most about the TRX is that you’re able to transport it around with you easily and you can use it anywhere as long as there’s a tree, doorframe, lamppost etc to attach it to. I’m planning on taking mine when I go away to Mallorca in a few weeks time as there are plenty of trees that I can tie it to and it means that I can do really effective whole body workouts without even needing a gym or any other equipment, and all whilst being outdoors in the sunshine!