Buddy Bear Crawls

Just when you thought bear crawls were tough, I've got an advanced version: buddy bear crawls.  The wrestler crawling will get on all fours as if he was about to perform a normal bear crawl, but his partner lays down face up underneath him, with his body parallel.  The partner reaches up and interlocks his hands behind the crawling wrestler's neck.  The wrestler then bear crawls as fast as he can while dragging his partner with him!

A slightly less torturous variation is to bear crawl backwards.  Just as when going forward, you are encouraged to gallop quickly if you can do so.  Backwards bear crawls, and backwards running for that matter, challenge your hamstrings in a unique way, and goodness knows you need powerful hamstrings in wrestling.

Use these exercises in your warmup, or for conditioning after practice.  They're great for kids to do, too!

Drag your buddy,
Jeff

P.S. The rules for freestyle and greco just underwent a major overhaul, with the most obvious change being the move to two three minute periods and continuous scoring, rather than best two out of three periods.  The rules aren't perfect, but I'm excited for this weekend's competition because the three minute periods favor my endurance!