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Suspension trainers are great for home workouts and for traveling, but you’ll also see the (often) yellow and black straps dangling from a pullup bar at the gym. What are they even good for, if the machine and dumbbell alternatives are right there? Let’s take a tour of some of the exercises that are actually best done with a suspension trainer.
Many of these can also be done with gymnastics rings, but the reverse isn’t true. Rings typically hang from two separate straps, while a TRX setup will have both straps connected to the same anchor point. That means they’re awkward for ring dips, but there are still plenty of great exercises you can do.
