Congrats (I think) on establishing the forum. It may make you busier than you’d like to be. Nevertheless, it is greatly appreciated that you make yourselves easily accessible to answer questions and disseminate evidence-based information with respect to medicine, health and fitness.
I wonder if either of you have any experience with this product http://www.ironcompany.com/torque-fi…iner-sled.aspx and how you would rate it as a conditioning tool compared to the traditional sled/prowler?
I can appreciate its practicality in terms of multi-surface use without causing damage to indoor surfaces. My question mainly deals with the level of traction that can be applied to provide the necessary resistance for the desired training effects.
The gym I go to has one of these but I have never used it. One of my workmates has and he said that while it is effective as a sled/prowler it has a tendency to pull to one side as you push it. He stopped using it and now uses an improvised sled utilising a metal framed box he stacks weight on.
No experience with it either, but it’s awfully expensive and as a conditioning tool…the biggest thing is going to be compliance. If getting this is going to improve compliance, then get it.
what Bob said. It doesn’t track straight.
I thought it made sense to have these at my gym in Phoenix ( 105-118 deg in summers), so they could do it indoors.
The parking lot asphalt is terrible, their traditional sleds wouldn’t work anymore (2"-3" WIDE Cracks in asphalt, no joke).
But there is no room, length wise in the gym. . . to push for 20 sec+/- you’d need a lot of “linear space”.
Then add in it wants to curve slightly a different way each time . . . there is REALLY no room for that.
People set to torque break at max, then put a crap load of plates on it (over the recommended max amount).
And push it real slowly for like 20 feet. It sucks in my opinion (for HIIT).
With all the weight on it, and rubber tires, its impossible to “aim” or scoot around.
The tires are real grippy, and they way the axles are tied together, it doesn’t want to pivot at all.