For hybrid & fitness racing
For hybrid & fitness racing, sled push rates higher on our research criteria: more injury protection.
Both are good choices that build different things for hybrid & fitness racing, so a plan can use both.
The research score comes from these, scored by hand from the studies. Lifter scores appear once an exercise has 10 ratings. How scores work
Rowing Machine. A race station. Train it at race pace.
Sled Push. The most-dreaded station. Practise it heavy.
For hybrid & fitness racing, sled push rates higher on our research criteria: more injury protection. Both are good choices that build different things for hybrid & fitness racing, so a plan can use both.
About the same: both are easy to learn.
Rowing machine needs a rower or SkiErg, so for most people it’s a gym exercise. Sled push needs a sled, so for most people it’s a gym exercise.
Sled push: it rates Good for injury protection in our research rubric, against Fair for rowing machine.