strength training redux.

Friday have become our conditioning days! Today we broke out the prowler for the first time and it was a helluva workout! There were 6 of us and we did a relay style workout. One guy would push the prowler about 30 yds on the high handles, as he finished the next guy would push it back on the low handles. You got around 40 - 60 seconds of rest before you were up again and let me tell you, that was BARELY enough time to recover! This is an amazing piece of equipment and I’m fully committed to dominating it this summer!

Check out some video of our sessions here

Prowler Push - Low Handles:
90×1x5

Prowler Push - High Handles:
90×1x5

Duration: 40 minutes

Eddie, Nate, Chris and I took the sled back up to the turf fields for another sprint workout with the sled. I started off great but pulled my hamstring on the 2nd sprint. It bothered me to the point where I could only go 50% for the remainder of the session. I am going to the Chiro tomorrow and will get some treatment.

40 yd Sprint with Sled:
45×1x8

Duration: 45 minutes

it’s absolutely gorgeous today in chicago, so i convinced chris to do a sprint workout with me today. we took the sled up to a turf field near North Park college and did some conditioning/metabolic work. we put a 45lb weight on the elite sled and attached it to ourselves some webbing and our weight belts. we did 8 sprints at max effort for about 40 yards. we rested about 90 seconds between sprints. we finished with a 300yd sprint…i gassed out about 3/4 of the way through, but as chris said, ‘we have a baseline to work from!’

40yd sprints with sled:
45×1x8

300yd sprint:
N/Ax1×1

Duration: 45 minutes