The Prowler: A Review
By
Lucas Wiester and Jon Gold
We are football and strength and conditioning coaches at a 4A high school in
southwest Missouri. We are long time followers, readers, and users of EliteFTS
and their products. When we had the opportunity to purchase three Prowlers from
EliteFTS in May 2008, we jumped at the chance. Once the Prowlers arrived, we
wasted no time breaking them in. We assembled our athletes in the parking lot,
loaded up about one to three plates a horn, and had the groups off and
running—or off and puking is more like it actually. That first day, we had 83
percent of the kids throw up. Yes, we are that sick and did the math.
We had no idea how hard it was to push a Prowler with three or more plates on
each horn for a high school kid. So there we were having our kids going nuts
over the new Prowlers. The kids flat out loved them and hated them at the same
time. This simple device is a beast. Never before have we had kids reach this
level of physical exhaustion so quickly, recover, and then do it again. We had
the kids start off with 10 trips for 30 yards with the Prowler. Then, we went
into some kind of medley of body weight work or flipping tires. We lined our
kids up and sent them on their way.
The Prowler wasn’t only incredibly effective in raising our conditioning level,
but it was a huge team builder as well. It was inspiring to watch all of the
athletes cheer each other on while they each took their turn through hell.
Combine this with some tire flipping and you have a brutal conditioning session
that doesn’t kill the body but will teach the athletes to play through the pain
and exhaustion. We used them so much we wore the skids down to nubs within a few
months. That’s not bad considering we had an average of two groups of 60 kids
using the three Prowlers at a time. It’s tough and will hold up to any abuse you
can give it. We have new skids on them and are off and running again.
Coaches, do yourself a favor. Run the Prowler a few times before the kids get a
hold of them so you can appreciate what they’ll be going through. Buy the
Prowlers and learn to love and hate them. The Prowler is the real deal. It’s
worth every penny! It’s also great to use as a punishment for the pranks the
kids pull. Have them push the Prowler around the school a few times on the low
handles. They won’t ever act up again.
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training industry by providing the highest quality strength training products
and services while providing the highest level of customer service in the
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