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Sled Pulling

• An issue of Dan John's Get Up! newsletter with a sled dragging article

• Wicked wrote up an awfully good description of sled pulling (everything Wicked writes is awfully good), and it generated a lengthy conversation with good insight... how to make your own sled, where to pull, that type of thing.

• Just *thinking* about starting a sledding program?

• From IronMind, take a look at their pulling harness -- the official harness used at the World's Strongest Man contest. And maybe a sandbag might sit well next to your back door.

• Byron posted a link to Louie Simmons' site, with this note on sled dragging, "By the way, for anyone sled shopping, Louie Simmons is selling a sled for a little less, $119 instead of $155, at Westside Barbell's web site. Elitefts is great but Louie deserves some credit, it was Louie that really got people started dragging sleds." Here's the link to the Westside equipment page; scroll down a ways to get to the sled.

Handy with the tools? This thread describes how to build your own wooden sled.

• You can also pick up a beauty of a sled over at BruteStrength.com, although from time to time we hear reports of delay in delivery. There are some good make-your-own-sled ideas in their forum, too.

Or it might look like that:

This link will show you various ways to drag a sled, including a link at the top provocatively titled, "ankle dragging."

Byron writes: I doubt there is ultimately any difference in the workout you get from different sleds. However there are huge differences in how much friction you get with different sleds and surfaces. I like a setup with maximum friction so there's less weight to haul around in the back of the truck.

Sled training is easy to fit into your schedule. You could do it as a separate workout on a separate day. You could do it as part of your weight workout, either before or after the weights, using heavy weights, shorter drags (say under 50 yards) and a couple minutes between pulls.

For cardio, you can do either continuous drags for distance or time, or you can do intervals. If you're doing it for cardio, you can do it pretty much whenever it fits your scehdule; it is very flexible as it won't interfere much with your other training.

Once you really get brutal, sled pulling might look like Dan John's version:

Some sled pulling descriptions:

Ankle Dragging

Fly

Reverse Fly (rear raise dragging

...and a bunch more sled drills demonstrated at EliteFTS