If you’ve ever wondered whether TRX suspension training actually helps with surfing performance — we’ve got some science-backed proof now. A new peer-reviewed study published in PeerJ  and indexed on PubMed (Wang et al., 2025)  found that TRX suspension training led to significantly greater balance improvements in competitive surfers  compared to traditional balance training methods. This wasn’t a marketing study — it involved 32 members of China’s National Surfing Team, test

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