Most people grab a suspension trainer and immediately start thinking about exercises.
They spend hours watching YouTube videos, testing different movements, trying to figure out which exercises will “finally work.”
And yet… they still don’t see changes in the mirror.
No matter how consistent they are, how hard they push, or how many different workouts they try…
Their body looks pretty much the same month after month.
That’s because the real problem?
It’s not necessarily the exercises you’re doing.
It’s how you’re doing them.
And until that’s fixed, you could do a thousand different exercises and still struggle to build visible muscle.
Think of it like this…
99% of suspension training resources teach what I call “movement-centric technique.”
You grab the handles, and you push, pull, and hang.
Your focus is on moving from point A to point B.
Getting the reps done.
Breaking a sweat.
The problem?
Your bodyweight load gets shared across multiple muscles.
So your chest might be the target, but your shoulders, triceps, back, and arms are all pitching in to help move the load.
Which means no single muscle is challenged enough to actually grow.
You end up working hard… but seeing minimal results.
I know because I wasted years training this way myself.
I’d finish workouts with a little sweat, thinking I’d crushed it.
But when I looked in the mirror each week? My body barely changed.
It was crushing my motivation.
Then I discovered something that changed everything:
Muscle-centric technique.
Instead of mindlessly moving through exercises, you focus on isolating the specific muscle you want to target.
You don’t let other muscles help out.
You use slow, controlled movements and your mind-muscle connection to squeeze the target muscle powerfully throughout every single rep.
Suddenly, the majority of your bodyweight load goes onto that one muscle.
And here’s the key: a muscle is much weaker when it’s isolated on its own.
So you can use lighter loads, like just your bodyweight, and create a big muscle-building stimulus.
Once you master this, everything shifts:
- Your workouts become effective – Every rep actually builds muscle instead of just making you tired
- You see changes faster – Because you’re finally creating the right stimulus for growth
- You need less equipment – No heavy weights, no gym, just your suspension trainer at home
And the best part?
Fixing this one technique issue makes everything else work better.
Suddenly, all the effort you’ve been putting in starts paying off.
You start seeing definition where there was none before.
Your body actually transforms instead of just staying the same.
I’ve watched this happen for over 8,000 people in the Fitness Freedom Athletes community.
Busy adults who thought they just “weren’t built to gain muscle”… until they learned to use their suspension trainer the right way.
Will lost 14 pounds and gained strength in his first 8 weeks and said, “I really have learned a lot!”
They didn’t need to work harder.
They just needed to work smarter.
Fix the technique. And watch your body transform.
Here’s to your Fitness Freedom
Coach Adam
Founder, Fitness Freedom Athletes
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