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    Default My latest addition

    Got a friend here in town to make this puppy up for me. Got it today and she weighs around 60lbs without any plates on it.

    I am going to call her "Suzie the Bitch"



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    So Oz,

    maybe ill come by and see how much i can do.

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    That's awesome. How much did your friend charge?

    Just curious, where do you go to push it? Just around the block? or bring it to a big empty parking lot?
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    Originally posted by max_boost
    That's awesome. How much did your friend charge?

    Just curious, where do you go to push it? Just around the block? or bring it to a big empty parking lot?
    I had to pay for the materials that he used and for the labour we just swapped time for that.

    This will be pushed up and down my alley, the upright bars are removable to put into a trunk. It can actually breakdown if you wanted to carry a socket set around with you.

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    Tried it out tonight in my alley, which is gravel and has some bigger rocks with a few soft spots. The rocks and soft spots make this much more difficult then anticipated. Did 6 passes with 100 lbs on there, each pass 40 yards or so. Alternated with Vertical bars with the low handle, rest was about 10 deep breaths in before going for the next pass.

    Would have done more but still pretty burned from lunch lifting session, so didn't want to overtrain too much. Tomorrow is off day and going to try it on grass to see if that helps. Otherwise I am moving this puppy to the street, my neighbors already think I am weird puling my sled.

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    Prowler Prattle? Soon, methinks!

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    you should paint hot pink strips twirling around susie ahaha

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    My lungs were burning today, got home and took this to the street right away.

    Walked off 40 yards and did 4 consecutive trips alternating vertical bars and low handles. Started taking a 1 minute break (timed with wrist watch) after each trip. Stopped after 10 trips, this was tough. Once I start getting used to it, I will need to start upping the weight used or even start pulling my sled behind me.

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    Jesus, nice work!
    "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

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    instead of starting a new thread I thought I'd post in this one. my prowler finally arrived from Texas Strength Systems yesterday and I gave it a run today. no weight, 6 sprints about 30yrds alternating high and low handles and I was done. legs started giving out after run 4. it doesn't feel bad after the first couple and then it hits you. and sucking wind for 10 mins after.

    pushing this thing is a bitch!
    heloc that shit

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    BUMP!!

    Had my first experience with the prowler today. Took it easy.

    2 runs empty.
    1 run with a 35.
    1 run with a 45.
    1 run with 2X35.

    Doesn't look like much but that thing can wreck you so fast.
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    Need a video of it in action!!

    Does the different amount of gravel/size of gravel/ affect the resistance? What I mean is on the same "push", do you hit hard and easy spots depending on what its going over?

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    I'm not sure Dave. Just pushed it across the cul de sac at lint's place.

    If the weather is decent next weekend, I'll video it for sure.

    But honestly I know it's gonna hurt tomorrow so I was taking it very easy lol

    lint did 4 runs, a couple with 2X45's and he was a wrecked man after

    Seriously what a concept. I was fairly tired after 5 runs and this conditioning only takes 20 minutes and you can always add more weight.
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    ive tried the ghetto version of this where you take a car and park it on a slight incline in neutral and push it up that

    the only hard part is getting in the car and hitting the brakes when ur destroyed from the pushing lol

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    http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_...owler_training

    DeFranco Prowler Training
    by Joe DeFranco – 1/06/2011


    Prowler Drunk
    The kid is delirious, that much is clear.

    After the workout we see him stumbling into his Chevy Blazer. He gets in, starts it up, and backs right into the Prowler. The Prowler is fine, but his truck has a big dent.

    We're laughing, thinking, "Man, the Prowler bit him even after his workout." But it didn't end there.

    A block from the industrial complex where my gym is located, the kid has to open up his door to puke. That's when the cop spots him.

    College guy, puking on the side of the road... the cop turns on his lights and gives the kid a sobriety test. In the end, he lets him go, but I have to talk to the cop, tell him about the Prowler workout, and vouch for the kid.

    These days the cops know we're back here and they give the kids the benefit of the doubt.


    I Love / Hate the Prowler

    "That's cool, but I don't really need it," I thought when I first saw the Prowler.

    We already did truck and car pushes in the back parking lot for the slower, strength-based stuff. For resisted running, we'd do hill runs or sprint with a standard sled attached to our waists. The Prowler was cool, but I had other options.

    I ended up getting one anyway. Within weeks I got another one. With this one piece of equipment I replaced a sled, a truck, and a hill. The Prowler just does it all.

    I have a love/hate relationship with the Prowler. I love it because it's so versatile. I also love the extraordinary results it produces in an extraordinarily short period of time.

    The Prowler is the ultimate piece of equipment when it comes to training economy: getting the most bang for your buck in the least amount of time. Bodybuilders can use it to add extra volume and put size on. World-class sprinters can use it to get faster.

    I hate the Prowler because, with certain workouts, it can be evil. Not just "difficult" or "taxing" but evil. Heavy, twenty-rep squats have nothing on the Prowler. But if you have the balls, it's one of best training tools you can ever use.


    Eccentric-less Training & Restoration
    For skinnier athletes who want to put on muscle, we'll use the Prowler to add volume. We'll still do the traditional compound movements – squats and deadlifts, etc. – but we'll add in the Prowler for eccentric-less training. This allows us to increase the volume without breaking the athlete down.

    Most of the time we do upper/lower body splits. If we do two upper-body sessions and two-lower body sessions per week using traditional weight training, we can use the Prowler to add in extra workouts on "off" days. More volume – without crushing the athlete with eccentric training – increases work capacity and builds more muscle.

    The beauty of it is, this type of training also acts as restoration. The athletes actually feel better after the session than they did before. Done correctly, you can increase blood flow, flush out lactic acid, and enhance recovery.


    Using the Prowler for a Normal Workout
    You've seen the videos on YouTube: the guys puking, the guys laying on the ground unable to stand. Those are all in good fun, but those are challenges, not our actual workouts.

    We use the Prowler mainly for speed and power, to increase strength and boost sprinting speed. We usually stay out of that lactic environment in our normal workouts.

    I do a lot of 10 to 15-yard sprints with full recovery. I've seen an incredible increase in speed and running form. The Prowler dramatically improves acceleration technique – that first 10 to 20 yards of running a 40-yard dash.

    The Prowler forces the athletes to get into the proper body position for acceleration. So not only are they faster because we've strengthened those muscles in a very specific manner using the Prowler, but because it engrains the perfect running form into their brains.


    Train Slow to Be Fast! Introducing HASDs
    One of our specialties at my facility is training athletes for speed. Most speed and agility coaches are into the running drills, the ladder drills, and the quick-foot drills. Those things, alone, are the most overused and overrated aspects of speed training.

    We don't do fancy running drills to get you faster; we go to the root of the problem by asking the question: why are you slow? Let's find out and correct it instead just doing more speed drills incorrectly. Those may get you in better shape, but they're not going to fix technique flaws or muscular imbalances.

    Most of our Prowler workouts consist of what we call heavy-ass sled drags or HASDs. Why? Because you have to train slow to be fast!



    Here's the beauty of HASDs: If you go heavy enough, you can't drag the Prowler behind you unless you position your body a certain way. That body position just happens to be the perfect acceleration angle.

    Go heavy and you have to get into that position. Otherwise that Prowler's not going to move. And since athletes can't go quickly with it, I can yell coaching cues at them while they're doing it. It would be impossible to coach speed if the athlete was actually running. A 10-yard sprint takes about a second and a half. There's no way I could yell three or four coaching cues at them in that time.

    You can't do the HASDs wrong, so you're engraving the proper motor programs into the athlete's brain and he's strengthening the most important muscles for acceleration (glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves) in the most specific manner possible.

    Some coaches don't like it when I call this a speed drill. "It can't be a speed drill; you're going too slow!" Well, that's bullshit. It is a speed drill.

    With any other sport, you slow it down so you can teach and rehearse different aspects of the game. With sprinting you could never do that, but with HASDs you can. Plus it's physically making the athletes faster.

    Some people argue that this doesn't work, that the athlete just "feels faster" after he pulls a heavy sled. But I've conducted hundreds of my own experiments using the Brower Timing System. This is what's used at the NFL Combine. It's fully electric with no chance for human error. The results of my studies on high-level athletes are clear: heavy sled dragging makes you faster.

    I've had guys who are already fast – we're talking top college and NFL guys, not just some untrained grade-school kid – get faster after using HASDs or multiple sets of ten yard sprints with full recovery. We're talking guys running 4.5 and 4.4 second, electrically-timed 10-yard dashes getting even faster.

    If you can get a guy who's already fast in the 10-yard dash to take off a couple of hundredths or even a full tenth, that could literally mean millions of dollars for him at the NFL Combine.

    "It's too slow to carry over to sprinting," some say. Complete bullshit! I've seen it happen too many times in my gym to believe otherwise. It definitely works. I've got guys who run 4.2's to prove it.



    So, 90% of our work with the Prowler is done using these heavy-ass sled drags. The rest is short sprints, 10 to 20 yards with a light to moderate weight and full recovery, staying out of the lactic environment (read: no puking and passing out.)

    A small fraction of Prowler training comes in the form of "challenges." And this is where it gets interesting.


    Prowler Challenges
    Disclaimer: You only want to throw Prowler challenges in periodically. You don't want to make these a staple in your training; they're just too difficult to recover from and too easy to overdo.

    Still, every now and then in training, you have to throw the science away. Don't worry about what energy system your sport requires, just see who has a set of balls and who's tough. Find out who's going to not quit.

    The challenges will tell you a lot about your athlete or yourself. A lot of great athletes can run fast and jump high, but they'll be the first to quit when the lactic acid builds up or things get tough. That's not the kid you want on your team. You want the guy that's going to last during a freak play in the NFL that lasts up to a minute.

    So, there are three reasons to do these crazy challenges:

    As a gut check: to see who's mentally tough.

    As an extra conditioning and calorie-burning tool for overweight athletes who need to suck it up and move their bodies more. Instead of walking on a treadmill for a half-hour, we burn those calories off in a few minutes.

    As punishment or motivation. Maybe we're maxing out on the bench press and an athlete has a mental block: he's never broken 400 pounds. I'll say, "If you don't get this rep you gotta give me two Prowler suicides." He usually gets the rep.
    I'll also throw in a Prowler challenge as a "gift" during the holidays, just an extra treat before they go home and start eating big meals with their families. The now infamous Christmas Eve workout is a good example.


    The Original Prowler Challenge
    This was the one that started it all. The reason this challenge covers 30 yards is because that was the distance from pothole to pothole in the parking lot of my old gym!

    Try this when you first get your Prowler. You have to pass this challenge before you move on to the other ones.



    The original Prowler challenge is four, 30-yard pushes, as fast as possible. The Prowler is loaded with two 45-pound plates and two 25-pound plates, for a total of 140 pounds.

    Start with the low horizontal handles. Sprint for 30 yards, then rest for one minute exactly. Now grab the vertical poles, sprint back 30 yards, and rest for one minute. Again, sprint the 30 yards with the low handles, rest, and come back using the high handles.

    Now, to complete the challenge you have to hold your puke for five minutes after you finish. If you puke after the five-minute point, you've still completed the challenge.

    Why the five-minute rule? Because it's not while you're pushing the Prowler or even immediately after, it's that two to three minutes after when the Prowler Flu kicks in. If you can survive that, you've passed the test.

    By the way, 99% of my athletes can now smash this test. The old videos are a little embarrassing to them. Still, this is a great beginner challenge.


    The New Prowler Challenge: Prowler Suicides
    For the NFL Combine, athletes are required to do 60-yard shuttle runs, basically suicides:

    run five yards, turn around quickly and run back to the starting line, then run ten yards and back, then fifteen yards and back.

    Now we do this with a Prowler. A 45-pound plate on each side is standard. For advanced athletes, we add extra 10's to each side.



    Start with the low, horizontal handles, push it five yards, jump through the upright handles (instead of going around it), then push it back five yards with the high, vertical poles. Now go again with the low handles for ten yards, jump through it and push it back holding the poles. Now, do fifteen yards, same rules.

    It's not over yet.

    Rest 90 seconds then start over and do the whole thing again. Try to complete the second round with only a five second or less drop-off from the first round.

    By the way, the MMA fighters are the best at this one – better than the football players!


    Bonus Exercise: Plank Rows with Prowler
    When a stud athlete, a true freak, comes to you the next day and says he's experiencing deep soreness in his abs, obliques, and core musculature, that's saying a lot about the exercise that got him that way. The plank row is one of those exercises.



    Get into a plank position. Reach out with one hand and grab a rope attached to a Prowler. Now, pull it toward you.

    If you can do this you're going to feel it the next day, and in the long run you'll greatly enhance core stability, which will help you to remain injury-free.


    Don't Have a Prowler?
    Maybe a Prowler isn't in your budget right now. That's fine, just do what we did: hill sprints, car pushes, etc. But the big-time Division 1 universities and professional teams don't have an excuse.

    Instead of having twenty lat pulldown machines, buy ten Prowlers. I'm shocked that every team doesn't have one yet. No money? You had money for a preacher curl machine and not a Prowler? It's baffling.

    I don't have any wasted equipment in my gym. Nothing in there is just for show and nothing collects dust. I have 5,000 square feet and we use every bit of it. The Prowler is, without question, the most-used piece of equipment in the gym. That's high praise considering the amount of traffic that comes through here.

    Are you up for the challenge?
    heloc that shit

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    Fuck. Yes.

    I need to buy a prowler.

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    Can't wait till the snow melts so I can go prowler pushing.
    Originally posted by rage2
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    that looks retardedly intense

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    Yep. The Prowler can seriously wreck you. I made 2 runs with it empty, 1 run with two 35's and 1 run with two 45's and I felt it for the rest of the day.
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    When spring roles around we should revive my old thread or start a new one for beyond.ca group training sessions. I know a few guys came out for one or two last year. We had two prowlers and two sleds it made for a good evening.

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