Upgraded ShredPak - Resistance Training System - Weight Sled Harness Weight Bag, Handles - Football Training, Any Surface, Strength Workout for Athletes - Burn 3X The Calories - Gym, Home and, Outdoor

This review is for Upgraded ShredPak - Resistance Training System - Weight Sled Harness Weight Bag, Handles - Football Training, Any Surface, Strength Workout for Athletes - Burn 3X The Calories - Gym, Home and, OutdoorThis is a relatively inexpensive product that pays big dividends for anyone who likes to take their workout from place to place or apartment dwellers. Good quality harness, drag sled, water/sand bag, pull strap, and hardware. It is not meant to bear much weight over sixty pounds in weight pack/sled configuration, so if you are in advanced resistance training in excess of 100 pounds, this is still useful for cardio and explosiveness, but likely can’t handle the challenge you seek unless you put custom weights on the sled.This product shines in that you can use it in so many different ways, the shred pack can function as a target for martial arts training as well as a general punching bag/speed bag when suspended from a tree branch. It also works as a sand bag, free weight, etc. and when put on the sled, can be taken anywhere. If you take a towel and put in on a tree branch, you can even use the hand grips and make an improvised pulley weight machine-esque setup.This is definitely going with me when I go on vacations and want to do some exercise, it is relatively compact and easy to use while remaining open to lots of creative variation to keep exercise exciting and effective.

overall this is a good piece of exercise equipment. I was disappointed in the size of the harness. It worked well for me as a 6ft tall 185 lb man but it was too large for my petite wife as well as my daughter. I only used sand in the bag so I cannot speak as to how well the bag will hold water. I liked the rubber drag pad but wonder how long it would hold up if using on concrete or asphalt. it worked well on grass/turf.

My background is doing CrossFit, so I’m adding a new implement for odd object workouts. These pictures are with a 25 pound sandbag, and I also used a 40 pound.This is a rubber sled, that you put the bag inside. And this is good because it provides a larger surface to be in contact with the ground. You wrap the rubber mat around the weight like a swaddle and attach this to the pulling straps.The pulling straps include a bungee and two ways of pulling, one with handles (so you drag the bag while going backwards) and one attaching to a harness (so you run forward dragging the sled behind you). There is also a bungee that goes between the sled and the pulling straps. These are needed because when dragging the bag there is an oscillation of force due to your running cadence and the ground and I suspect that could cause injury over extended periods of time. I make a practice of getting set with tension on the bungee before I start a pull to keep that initial force from being too jarring.The obvious long term point of failure is going to be the bungee. It is fine with 25 pounds, ok with 40, but I don’t think I would go higher. The mat is much.more durable than a bag alone will be, so that is an improvement over most drag bags I see out there. But if you are going to try for heavier weights, I would go for a solid sled, because the oscillations in force due to the soft nature of the sled would probably detract from the stimulus you are trying to get with the sled.So, as another step in the quest for constant variation this is a great product. Given that I already work with sandbags under dynamic load (so have decent movement patterns) this is a good addition, and there are a number of details that show they thought through the problems that these soft drag sleds can have.

I write this in the context of having two metal sleds, and one previous bag sled. I love the metal ones, the largest allows for pushing as well as pulling, the smaller is stainless steel and is beautifully constructed, and both are my favorites for grass and other softer services, but are noisy and subject to dismaying scratching from going over concrete or rocks. Neither are very suitable for transport in most vehicles, and so not easy to transport to parks and trails, or taking along when camping.My first attempt at obtaining a "soft" sled, came in a form of a fairly decent harness connecting to a user filled bag, with only the bottom (when held upright) of the bag reinforced with a rubberized material. Of course the bottom of a vertical bag is not the surface that contacts the ground when being drug. The rest of the bag, though plenty tough for carrying, was not adequate for sustained outdoor deployment if the bag is drug over surfaces which included rocks or concrete. I'd still take it along on some camping trips, but often didn't use it because of the frequent abrasiveness of the available surfaces to drag it along.So I have fairly cautiously considered a replacement, and in this Shred Pack, I've found not only a vast improvement over my previous bag sled, but what I think my be the best soft system available. Most of what makes it great is that it is not only a bag, but a soft sled system that lets you modify the bag according to the surfaces it will be used on. The system is basically a sturdy bag into which sand, stones or water can be put into (water is the best for ready portability), a large heavy industrial rubber mat which can wrap around the bag when abrasive surfaces will be encountered, a strap, a harness, and two handles which can be used for hand pulling of the sled. The bag used alone is great for sandbag training of the upper and total body.This is a versatile and incredibly useful means of engaging in several forms of functional training. Accompanying the system is a double sided sheet explaining how to use the system, and illustrating a variety of means the bag can be adapted to perform functional exercises. I'm not usually impressed by the cheaply printed and poorly translated, instruction sheets that come with most low and moderately priced exercise equipment. This is an exception. The print is relatively large and readable, the verbiage grammatically correct, and the color photos, are of adequate resolution to learn from the pictures. It's well worth the 5 minutes it takes to study it.I could easily go on, but this review is already fairly long, So to end, I will just say the this rates five stars in every respect: thoughtfulness of design, quality of materials, construction of the components, and variety of muscle groups that can be addressed. I expect to maintain interest in using it for a long time, and that it's life span will be even longer.

This is great for any athlete. It’s very durable and bigger than I thought (in a good way!) Super easy to use, great directions as you can see in my pictures. Great for running practice at home in the backyard or in the driveway.

Broke on second day of use. I do not recommend. Was not doing anything it wasn’t designed for, just snapped off while using.