Hetrick: Stanford coaches validated TRX prototype across diverse sports teams
Randy Hetrick · TRX: Randy Hetrick (2018) · Aug 27, 2018 · at 7:05
Randy Hetrick, founder of TRX and former Navy SEAL, describes how Stanford University athletic coaches reacted to early prototypes of his suspension trainer around 2001.
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“While I was at Stanford, I was able to go out and train in the athlete training center, and I would show up with my straps and hook them up, you know, in this world-class training facility, and over the course of six or eight months, I mean, darn near every one of the coaches that would be in there with their teams came over and sort of looked and said, hey, tell me about this thing, you know, and 10 minutes later, they'd be selling me on what a great idea it would be for their, every, every one of their athletes from a 90 pound female tennis players to their 300 pound linemen.”
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