Have you ever used the Prowler?? If you had you'd remember it, one of the toughest and most effective conditioning tools which has the ability to bring people to their knees.

S&C Guru, Joe DeFranco describes the term "Prowler Drunk:" The kid is delirious, that much is clear. After the workout we see him stumbling into his Chevy Blazer. He gets in, starts it up, and backs right into the Prowler. The Prowler is fine, but his truck has a big dent. We're laughing, thinking, "Man, the Prowler bit him even after his workout." But it didn't end there. A block from the industrial complex where my gym is located, the kid has to open up his door to puke. That's when the cop spots him. College guy, puking on the side of the road... the cop turns on his lights and gives the kid a sobriety test. In the end, he lets him go, but I have to talk to the cop, tell him about the Prowler workout, and vouch for the kid. These days the cops know we're back here and they give the kids the benefit of the doubt.

The following is an excerpt from Matt Reynold's, 'Death by Prowler: An Authoritative, Practical Guide to the Greatest Conditioning Creation in History.'

The reality is that the Prowler doesn’t have to give you the “Prowler flu” every time you use it. Contrary to popular belief, it can facilitate recovery just as well as it facilitates projectile vomiting. In fact, the Prowler is unique for a variety of reasons. The first, and probably most important, is that it falls in the category of implements that utilize “concentric-only” work. Very simply, this means that there is no eccentric (or “negative”) portion of the movement. We know that the eccentric portion of an exercise causes significantly more muscular damage than the concentric portion. Actually, concentric only work can be an excellent method of active recovery and restoration, because of the increased blood flow to the area, without the microtrauma to the muscle fibers that is associated with eccentric work. Additionally, because the Prowler is PUSHED, instead of pulled (like a sled attached to the body by a belt or harness), the kinetic chain of the movement goes from the hands through the entire body to the ground.

Another great thing about the Prowler is that it can so easily be used to stress any energy system. Because it’s so easy to use load to vary intensity, and the trainee can choose to walk, jog, run, or sprint, as well as specifically time rest intervals, training the Prowler is simple (albeit occasionally brutal) to use at any energy system.

Finally, it’s just so much damned harder than anything else. I don’t know exactly why, but I’m sure it has something to do with being bent over while pushing the thing. When pushing the Prowler hard and fast, with incomplete recoveries, it more closely resembles a medieval torture device than a tool for recovery and metabolic conditioning. Before I started STRONG Gym, and we all trained at my house, my poor neighbor’s grass was dead all along the curb where every one of us threw up our eggs as a Saturday morning ritual in their well-manicured fescue after a handful of trips with the Prowler. If you haven’t used it, you just can’t understand.