Advanced TRX exercises for arms: Curl and extend your body weight

Written by female personal trainer Justina Triasovaite.

Learn how to use TRX suspensions to train your arms.  

For these arms  exercises you need to have TRX suspensions. Also remember to warm up before training.

What is TRX?

TRX is all in one full body training system created by american marines. Suspension Fitness is an approach to fitness training that uses a system of ropes and pulleys to manipulate client’s bodyweight to produce an all body workout. On the TRX Suspension Trainer, you're in control. Use your bodyweight and gravity to perform hundreds exercises that you can make easier or harder. The straps allow you to increase or decrease the exercise difficulty based on your body's position.

Remember to:

Always check all straps before start training.

Rules to follow

Here are the rules you need to follow:

FIRST RULE - Get your self familiar with straps, safety comes first.
SECOND RULE - Find right resistant by locating best leaning angle 
THIRD RULE - Keep your elbows controlled   
FOURTH RULE - Have your gluteus and core tight and engaged

Places where you can do it

EVERYWHERE: gym, park, at home, anywhere you like as long as you have suspensions system with you and possibility to strap it. 

Benefits of this workout

  •  Visible arms appearance change  
  • Increased arms strength 
  • Increased arms stability and mobility

Common mistakes

This is advanced exercises, so its easy to make a mistakes if you never done this before. Its important to pay attention to your hips and make sure you are not doing this exercises with help of the hips. Forget about lower body here only bicep and triceps working. It can be very hard to isolate muscle from the rest of the body so keeping elbows still is very important.

General nutrition

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Ready to give it a go?

You need to perform this exercise at least twice a week in order to SEE RESULTS in around 6 weeks.

SEE RESULTS

Please leave me your comments below. What did you think of the exercise? What is easy enough for you? Is there anything else you would have wanted me to cover? What other exercises would you like me to teach you? I'm all ears! 🙂

Make sure to check out my advanced TRX exercises workout plan.