Sleds are a wonderful conditioning tool that can hit any end of the metabolic spectrum. In this post you see me do a round of sled pushing and then struggle through the first few seconds of panting hard. I guess I won’t do my talking AFTER hard sets anymore. The wife said it was comically unbearable during the filming.
Have you pushed a sled before? What kind of sled workouts do you do? How has it helped you?
i use them as conditioning tool and do tempo work with them from time to time( like i dont go all out just kinda run with them, do multiple sets with abs between “reps”), great stuff also i sometimes do sprints with them as well. Low handles kill :)
Florida is awesome. That thing would have slid down the street really easily here.
Question: do you ever train with kettle bells? I’ve only done it a few times but got a really awesome met workout with them. My gym finally got some heavier bells so I’m thinking about mixing them into barbell work.
I bought a 53 pound kettlebell for me and a 35# one in the hope my wife would use it. We’ll see. I am doing Dan John’s 10,000 swing challenge. It is really kicking my tail, and I am only 4 days into it. I am doing days on 2 days off, which is a modification of Mr. John’s suggestion (just really felt I needed more recovery time). This is the only thing I am doing aside from walking. I plan to do 5-3-1 or PC’s 365 template after I finish it. I do wish I had access to a Prowler- looks like such an awesome tool. Maybe I can rig up my own sled, who knows?
I used a sled one summer and it was awesome. The only downside is that they require a fairly spacious gym and/or neighbors that won’t resort to egging the house of the “dude that pushes the metal thing down the street”.
“[Rule] b) the tip of your dugan is not easily visible when viewing the front of your [lower body attire].”
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I do backward sled drags on Saturday’s as conditioning. Usually use about 75% BW loading. Do sets of 20m with rest adjusted depending what I want to achieve. Been using longer rest periods lately as load has increased. I have a need to increase the musculature around my knee for rehab/prehab and find backwards drags while being in a kind of half squat really fire up my VMO. Annoyingly my gym doesn’t have a prowler atm, so pushes I can’t really hit.