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When it comes to training the chest, our mind immediately conjures up images of someone lying on a bench, pressing a barbell loaded with plates or a set of enormous dumbbells up above their torso. But what if we told you that there’s a highly effective way of building bigger and stronger pecs that doesn’t involve either of these things? Say hello to cable chest exercises, a vastly untapped world of variety and additional benefits to add into your chest training regime.

The TRX community continues to kill it day in and day out. Today, we'll be highlighting some of our female TRX Trainers who not only own their own businesses, but have left their mark on the fitness world.

Your upper back is one of the most important parts of your body. The muscle groups in this area are primarily responsible for keeping you upright, because they work against the core. Without a strong upper back, not only will your posture be affected but back pain will follow shortly after.

The calorie (otherwise known as food calorie, dietary calorie, or kilogram calorie) is defined as the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree Celsius.  This unit measure of energy is a hot topic when it comes to fitness and weight loss. After all, measuring calories can be a useful way to manage energy balance and weight.

Whether on the field or in the game life, we deserve to reap the rewards of our hard work.  Yet, it has become commonplace to keep our engines revving high, racing to the next stop.  This adrenalized way of life leads to wear and tear on our bodies parts, mental exhaustion and burnout.  Adding recovery and regeneration techniques to our days is a simple, yet effective, way to help us, the drivers, and our engines, perform optimally.  

It is well understood that eating frequent meals throughout the day is more healthy than eating one large meal.  The same could be said for exercise.  Traditional exercise paradigms instruct us to ‘compartmentalize’ our exercise into a single daily session. 

In today’s world, we must be ready to handle what life may throw at us.  We must be prepared for not only what is in front of us, but we must be prepared to bounce back from our day to day challenges.  Readiness extends beyond our physical bodies and includes our mindset.  A proper warm-up is one of the most effective and efficient ways to prepare our minds and bodies.  

Folks are always asking me what a TRX Training Summit is like, and I struggle to come up with a good answer. The real essence of the Summit is hard to put into words. Sure, I could rattle off the schedule, the events line-up, and the content we’re going to cover -- which is all amazing -- but it’s just so much more than that. In lieu of trying to describe the Summit in the literal sense, I’ll do my best to paint a picture. 

Building a strong core can have numerous physical and aesthetic benefits. It helps improve posture, balance, and stability, and can also help with back pain. Exercising your abs on a bench can add a different level of difficulty to your workout routine and target your core muscles at new angles. There are also plenty of benefits that you wouldn’t get from a regular ab workout, so let’s take a look at some of the best bench ab exercises you can do today!