For hybrid & fitness racing
For hybrid & fitness racing, sled push rates higher on our research criteria: more injury protection.
Both are good choices that work the same way, so they swap freely. Rotating between them every few weeks is an easy way to vary your training.
The research score comes from these, scored by hand from the studies. Lifter scores appear once an exercise has 10 ratings. How scores work
Sled Pull. A race station: practise pulling heavy while tired.
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 work the same way, so they swap freely. Rotating between them every few weeks is an easy way to vary your training.
About the same: both are easy to learn.
Sled pull needs a sled, 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 sled pull.