TRX

TRX was born of necessity in the Navy SEALs. After TRX founder and inventor Randy Hetrick graduated from college at USC, he spent the next 14 years serving as a Navy SEAL commando. His operational career culminated as a Squadron Commander of the SEAL's elite special missions unit where circumstances inspired him to experiment with what would become TRX.

In need of a way to maintain peak physical condition while on deployment, Navy SEAL Squadron Commander, Randy Hetrick, uses a jujitsu belt, parachute webbing and sheer ingenuity to develop the first version of the TRX® Suspension Trainer in 1997. By 2001, Hetrick attends Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, earns his MBA, refines the Suspension Trainer and plans to bring it to market. His unique training device begins to capture the attention of athletes, coaches and trainers.

In 2005, TRX launches the first Suspension Training® Course specifically for trainers and the TRX experience begins to spread to the gym-going masses, by 2007 TRX introduces the Xmount®, its first commercial anchoring solution, to help answer the growing demand for TRX group training programs. The flagship TRX Training Center® opens at company HQ in San Francisco as an experiential testing and development lab that leads to advances in TRX group training, programming and education.

Then in 2011, TRX launches the first-ever Sports Medicine Suspension Training Course and a year later launches its first Group Rip Training education course, providing another innovative small group training solution for the commercial space. TRX launches the TRX Commercial Suspension Trainer on 2012, the first Suspension Trainer purpose-built exclusively for the commercial space. In 2013, TRX introduces Trainer Basics, the first-ever online Suspension Training course.