Sled Training & Conditioning

Sled Training & Conditioning

Sled training and conditioning is an exercise that I have only been recently introduced to since training at Elite Sports Performance and is something that I want to pursue further in regards to to my own general body conditioning and lactate buffering training.  The sled is a great way to condition the whole body because you are either having to general force through the whole body to push the sled or pull the sled.  This exercise can be used as an entire workout for lactate buffering training or can be used as an exercise within a training program.  For more information on lactate buffering training and you will see why pushing and pulling the sled is such a great tool for this.  Click here to read the article.

So what does the sled look like?

There are many different commercial types of sleds available in the market, however they generally all have the same type of design.  The image on the left is the Butcher and the right is the mini sled, both of which can be found at the Westside Barbell.