The Prowler: A Review

**Raining_Blood** · Posted On: 12/25/2007 3:14am

Today I present to you a review of a little piece of equipment commonly refered to as the Prowler.

Anyone who frequents sites such as defrancostraining, elitefts, or westside barbell should be familiar with the Prowler. Anyone who doesnt, its basically a sled on steriods. Hell being such a nice guy I'll even included a picture.

(not me and yes I have no idea why he has loaded the sides with different weights)

Now to the review. I got this today as a christmas present and have taken it for a spin once. I just used it on the grassy hill near my house. My initial plan was to just do some light run throughs, get the feel for the thing and how to do things before increasing intensity in following sessions. Well half an hour later I was on the verge of throwing up.

I must add I am not a very big fan of running. I can tolerate it but it really isnt my cup of tea. Sprints are alright but I really dislike anything over 200m. Using this I never experienced any of the boredom I normally encounter with running.

The best thing about this piece of equipment is how it challenges you and I dont just mean physically. Its almost as if the mofo is taunting you to work harder. I used it unweighted but there is also the option of adding weight.

I recommend this to anyone who is serious about increasing their GPP and conditioning. It is especially relevant to people that arn't keen on traditional conditioning methods that involve running.

Edit: My html powers are weak

-- EDIT (Macho)--

Raining, if you go to the advanced editor, you'll find a a button that allows you to embed pics in your post. Also, click on 'edit' and you'll see the tags used for that purpose.

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 12/25/2007 12:30pm

WOW, SWEET WOW!!!!

I want one of those. I'm with you, word by word, about running and sprinting. You are a lucking bastard for having one of those.

Question: can it be dismantled and put inside a car's trunk? Can it be used for pulling as well?

**Jack Rusher** · Posted On: 12/25/2007 1:21pm

Color me jealous. I love sled training, but I live in the middle of Manhattan. The closest thing I get is dragging my classmates around the mats during warmup...

**Emevas** · Posted On: 12/25/2007 1:38pm

I wanna pick up the econo prowler soon. Glad to know this thing got such great reviews.

Macho, check this out

http://www.elitefts.com/documents/prowler.htm

**CoffeeFan** · Posted On: 12/26/2007 7:00pm

Originally Posted by Teh El Macho

WOW, SWEET WOW!!!!

Question: can it be dismantled and put inside a car's trunk? Can it be used for pulling as well?

Not sure how compact it is (I'll leave that to the OP) but you could easily get some rope and either pull it or construct a waist strap.

Good review BTW, looks like a bitching piece of equipment

**tyciol** · Posted On: 12/26/2007 8:45pm

Yeah I frequent EliteFTS and remember seeing this. It looks cool, but much like tire/truck dragging very space-requiring. I don't really own any expanse of land so I can't go out to the park with something like this. Seems like something coaches of teams could take advantage of better.

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 12/26/2007 9:04pm

Originally Posted by CoffeeFan

Not sure how compact it is (I'll leave that to the OP) but you could easily get some rope and either pull it or construct a waist strap.

Good review BTW, looks like a bitching piece of equipment

I'm actually building something right now (I buy a lot of crap to make stuff for working out, very impractical sometimes, but it's just a hobby :P)

Anyways, it will be made of small tires bolted to a wooden frame. The frame will have a pair of holes onto which you can attach and deattach metal pipes for pushing and pulling or for sledge pulling.

I just need the time to sit down, pull my toolbox and build that ****.

**Emevas** · Posted On: 12/26/2007 9:06pm

Originally Posted by tyciol

Yeah I frequent EliteFTS and remember seeing this. It looks cool, but much like tire/truck dragging very space-requiring. I don't really own any expanse of land so I can't go out to the park with something like this. Seems like something coaches of teams could take advantage of better.

Psh, I bet those skinny bitches couldn't even run a full circuit on the thing, posers.

**tyciol** · Posted On: 12/26/2007 9:38pm

I guess EliteFTS is stealing marketing strategies from T-nation :p

**JB71** · Posted On: 12/28/2007 11:50pm

Here is an ebay item slightly cheaper than an econo prowler. Those of you that are welders should be able to make one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...:X:RTQ:US:1123

Here is a link with a description of a homemade version
http://animalability.yuku.com/topic/374