Sled Push
Trains the quadriceps, with help from the glutes, calves and hamstrings. Equipment varies. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
Technique
How to do the Sled Push
- Load the sled with an appropriate weight and grip the upright poles with both hands, arms extended or slightly bent.
- Lean your body forward at roughly a 45-degree angle, bracing your core and keeping your back flat.
- Drive the sled forward by taking powerful, deliberate steps, pushing through the balls of your feet and extending your hips and knees fully with each stride.
- Continue pushing for the desired distance, then rest and repeat for the desired number of rounds.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Keep your back flat and your core braced to transfer power efficiently from your legs to the sled.
- Take short, powerful steps and drive through the full foot rather than reaching with long strides.
- Breathe rhythmically throughout the push; avoid holding your breath under heavy loads.
- Choose a weight that allows continuous movement; if the sled stalls repeatedly, reduce the load.
Muscles worked
What Sled Push trains
In the programs
None of our programs use the Sled Push
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a quadriceps exercise that is, there are 23 on the Quadriceps page.
Substitutes
Swap Sled Push for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Sled Push for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.