How to do Trx Chest Press
Starting Position: With your feet about hip width apart hold on to the trx handles. While keeping your arms straight and your core muscles engaged, slowly walk your feet back until your body is in a straight line and your weight is supported by your upper body.
Form: Inhale and slowly lower your chest towards the floor. Pause for a second at the bottom and then exhale and push yourself back up to the starting position.
Personal Trainer Tips: In the chest press your palms should be facing down. This hand position is different from chest flyes because in chest flyes you would keep your palms facing inwards (facing each other).
Trx Chest Press Benefits
You can really work your chest muscles with the trx, and because the trx is unstable when compared to the floor, your shoulder stabilizers will also get a challenging workout.
The chest press motion is very similar to push ups. You can put your feet in the trx and do push ups with your hands on the floor (or ground), or you can hold the handles in your hands and do the chest press motion with your feet on the floor.
One of the nice benefits of using the trx is that you can easily adjust the intensity by simply changing your body position.
When you stand close to the trx, your body won’t be as parallel to the floor, so you’ll lift less of your bodyweight against gravity. But, if you stand far away from the trx so that your body is more parallel to the floor, then you’ll have to lift more of your bodyweight against gravity.
With the trx chest press, the length of the straps also makes a big difference. When the straps are adjusted so that they are long and closer to the ground, you will be able to get your body closer to parallel with the floor.
Advanced Variation:
To challenge your core muscles to a higher degree you can lift one leg, and do the chest press on 1 leg. The leg that remains of the floor will have to work much harder to stabilize your body weight and keep you in good alignment.
Trx Chest Press Muscles worked
This exercise primarily targets your pecs, but also engages your abs, shoulders, arms, and other muscle groups to stabilize the movement.
Target - Pectoralis Major, Sternal and Clavicula
Secondary - Anterior Deltoid
Secondary - Biceps Brachii
Secondary - Rectus Abdominis
Secondary - Trapezius
Secondary - Triceps Brachii
