Heavy A** Prowler

Improve Leg Drive and Mental Toughness for Athletes

By Jim Smith, CSCS

Here are some clips of the heavy prowler finishers we have been doing after our workouts.  Finishers are a great way to jack up the intensity when everyone is dragging ass after the workout.  You turn the finishers into “challenges” between the training group.

Prowlers, sleds, dumbbells, kettlebells, bodyweight and everything else under the sun are used to build serious complexes that are done for time or for a certain number of reps.

Nobody is tougher than Dalton son!

Finishers are a great way to also build mental toughness.  This is something that many young athletes lack and I really feel it can be learned in the weight room.  As a former wrestler, I used to only say wrestling built character and mental toughness.  But since I’ve been away from competition for so long, finishers have really stepped in to show not only me, but those I train with, what it means to be tough.

With winter coming, I hope you have a great training facility where you can do prowler inside.  If you don’t, you still have tons of complexes (multiple implements) you can design to create a killer finisher for you and your athletes.

Heavy A** Prowler

Quick, Easy Setup for Homemade Wrist Roller

Here is a quick video showing you how to setup your own wrist roller with minimal equipment.

I saw this technique being utilized by Mike Rojas of Strong 101 Gym.

Here is the equipment you need.

Equipment

- kettlebells or dumbbells

- elastic bands OR rope *

- a power cage

- an Olympic bar

* Rope setup – if you use the rope setup, you might need some duct tape to adhere it to bar so it doesn’t slip around.  Also, when we have used the rope setup, we tied a carabiner to the end of the rope to loop around for quick change around.

The Setup

Step 1 – Offset Olympic Bar

Step 2 – Loop Through Kettlebells

Step 3 – Be Cool

Step 4 – Do Work

P.S. Fore more ideas for easy-to-make pieces of strength training equipment, check out the Home Made Strength On-line DVD. In less than an hour you can be on your way to assembling over a half a dozen new pieces of equipment = > Home Made Strength

High Intensity Metabolic Training

Powerful Prowler Combination

I am training two MMA fighters for their upcoming fights on August 6th.  We recently did a killer prowler finisher after their lower body workout.
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Explosive Kettlebell Training – Power Bombs

Within the last 1o years you’ve probably seen kettlebells popping up more and more in your commercial gyms.  If you don’t train at a commercial gym, I would guess that you even have a few kettlebells in your warehouse or garage gym.

The reason is quite simple.  Kettlebells are an amazing tool.  With their offset mass and versatility, kettlebell movements can range from simple to complex and provide a variety of benefits.

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Exclusive Interview – Martin Rooney – Part 1

Just got back from Fair Lawn, NJ for an exclusive interview with Martin Rooney.  After training at the Parisi Speed School, Martin and I sat down for this 30+ minute interview done for Elitefts.com.