Photographs: Juan Trujillo Andrades
I did a TRX class once 10 years ago, and that was enough for a decade. It turned out that the torture instrument-esque rope-and-pulley-system was designed by an ex-Navy Seal commander, and the class was littered with words like ‘challenge’ and ‘burn’.
For a weekend runner and yoga fan, it wasn’t exactly the start of a beautiful friendship. Luckily, Fly LDN have since got their hands on the concept and turned TRX into a stylish, low-impact class without so much as a whiff of the GI Joes about it. I visit their boutique yoga studio in the City of London after a stressful day, wondering if I’m up for anther bite of the TRX cherry, but George the instructor (dressed in fitness kit, no sign of fatigues) reassures me that it really is low-impact. ‘Even the burpees are done without jumps – so you get a workout, but without that intensity of HIIT,’ he says.