Secret Training Weapon #1 - The Car Tyre

Fact 1: The car tyre is a rubber compound encapsulating a steel wire mesh inside. The wire mesh provides the rigidity to the tyre. To drill through a tyre, a metal drill bit is the best option.

Fact 2: The car tyre can be recycled to make:
- ground covering in playgrounds
- mud guards
- solar cookers
- flip-flops (slippers)

Fact 3: The car tyre can be used as fuel for some processes such as cement plants. However recovering the energy is difficult due to the gases that are released from the tyres. A typical car tyre equates to 10 litres of fuel oil

Fact 4: Most car tyres end up in land fills

Many sports use car tyres for resistance training. Car tyres are popular with polar explorers to create the feeling of pulling a sled. The tyres are connected to one another and then connected to the person via a harness.

Adding rocks into the tyre will add weight for those wanting more weight.

Think all "would-be" marathon runners should use this training method because it builds great quads and calves.