NEW! TRX Kettlebell: Iron Circuit Conditioning

With its unique blend of Suspension Training exercises and kettlebell conditioning intervals, TRX Kettlebell: Iron Circuit Conditioning will improve your strength, mobility and balance. You can sculpt muscles and blast fat, all with one workout. This intense program features 10 rounds and three levels of exercise difficulty, so you can continually challenge yourself.

“Russian Kettlebell Training is not just a workout, it’s a practice, very much like an internal martial art or Yoga, so spend your time to master the basics.” Pavel

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I have been teaching classes, personal training sessions, and workshops using both kettlebells and the TRX for about 18 months. The 2 tools compliment each other well. The tag line of the TRX is “all core all the time” which is also very similar to Hardstlye kettlebell training. I have several videos of my classes on youtube teaching TRX Kettlebell classes, here is one from August 21, 2009.  Here is another from November where I also include sandbags.

Here is what I find:

• With TRX training you have to keep the core tight just like in kettlebell training. I have my students squeeze the glutes and extend the hips with every TRX exercise. This is NOT taught in the TRX course, It’s what I add to it from hardstyle training
• The TRX will work on isolate specific muscles which will help your kettlebell training
• The TRX will always make you balance and stabilize the body, especially the ankles, which seems to be a huge issue with most people.
• The TRX is controlled movements similar to the kettlebell military press and by adding kettlebell ballistic movements with the TRX movements I think the combination is awesome.
• Doing combination exercises like the one leg squat on the TRX with a kettlebell overhead is likely one of the most challenging exercises anybody will do. There are a lot of combos like this and I find that the workout or class becomes very advanced when doing TRX kettlebell at same time

Finally, from my own training I have used the TRX to assist me in getting much better at kettlebell lifting. I have also gotten injured twice in my shoulder using the TRX so be very careful of deep chest presses on the TRX.

This is a wonderful DVD and I recommend it to anybody who is serious about learning TRX Kettlebell training and workouts from the ground up.