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    Default Ideal prowler track length (artificial turf)

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    What's the bare minimum length needed for a prowler workout as well as an ideal length?

    The current place I've found that's not noisy has a 50-60m stretch but it's inconvenient to go there. The concrete where I live is excessively noisy and echoes throughout the apartment complex causing complaints.

    I've never pushed on artificial turf before so I don't know what it's like. Would 10-15m be enough? I almost feel like it might not be long enough to get going before I need to turn around, but I'm really not sure. hopefully someone can chime in...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crimmy View Post
    Would 10-15m be enough? I almost feel like it might not be long enough to get going before I need to turn around
    Yes, that's enough. 100% sure you can push yourself into hellish fatigue with 15m.

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    Ok, so would 15m be ideal or bare minimum? Think I could get away with 10m? A 2*10m strip will cost me roughly 100 USD and I haven't found a better deal. I still need to ask if a 1.5m width will be priced as 2m since they'd need to cut a 2m strip.

    I guess a second question is how important is the quality/fiber length? The people I'm talking to are insisting on curly 8mm fibers at about 5USD per square meter, but the cheapest they have is a 10-11m straight fiber at 2/3 the price. I'm also going to have to roll this out and roll it back up after each use.

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    My gym has a 20m stretch. Up and back at a Sprint with low weight takes less than 20sec. I wouldn't go less than 20m

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    Alrighty, thanks. I'll probably stick with 20m even though I'll have to wait until next month to purchase it.

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    Having it loose and removing it each session won't work. A few months back I lay down a 20 x 1 m concrete strip down the side of my house for prowler use. I first tested it without gluing down and it bunches up terribly, unusable. Had to glue it, 2 big tins of green fake grass glue.

    20m is great by the way, but 15m would be fine also

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