Power of The Prowler

It has been a few years now since I have played rugby, and since then I have always tried to pay attention to my overall conditioning, during my years playing rugby I was always playing at a high intensity and spent alot of time working on my conditioning, if I knew then what I know now then I could easily say that I was very mislead on how to condition yourself as a young athlete. I know now that there are much better tools to use to condition yourself.

I don’t know how long it has been since I first faced the Prowler but I can remember the 1^st time I used it, I was pumped, excited, nervous I had all these feelings about it because I had no clue what was going to happen but it was something new and I knew I wanted to try it. I started pushing it with no weight and I did acouple of laps up and back and felt good! I put some weight on and started to do a vertical push up and then back with a horizontal push, I still felt pretty good after a few minutes up and back again with about 60 secs break in between after I don’t know how many laps it just hit me! I was down for the count it was just like I had run into a wall. I laid there with my hands on my head thinking about what I had done and how I could breath again, and also thinking I had never done anything like that before! I knew from then on that this thing was full on!

I have been using the Prowler ever since and I can honestly say that it is one of the best if not the best pieces of equipment to condition athletes with. The Prowler will make you a beast when it comes to conditioning!

Here are a couple of ways to use the Prowler to get the best out of it:

Vertical push: This is the easiest way to use the Prowler (I say that very loosely). Holding the two vertical posts, sink your hips and push. This is usually done while running, but alot of people will walk after awhile, and then maybe even crawl lol.

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Horizontal push:There are two horizontal bars to push from on the Prowler. The horizontal bars make an athlete lower his or her hips to drive it forward. Again I have seen many people crawl the last 5 metres with this one.

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Horizontal pull:Holding the top horizontal handle, simply pull the Prowler towards you. Because of your weird positioning, the movement is slow and very very tiring. Get low, keep your feet wide and pray! This is great for the hips.

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These are just a very few movements that you can do on the Prowler, but these are probably my 3 favourite.

If you want a true challenge and go beyond what you thought you could do, then come and check the Prowler out and do a Prowler circuit. Honestly the commitment, hard work, torture, pain and persistence will pay off!