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Rowing WOD 8/25: Partner WOD – 8min AMRAP: Max Calories, Max Push Ups – Post Team Totals

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Chest Touches Floor and Hands Release

Rowing WOD 8/25:

Partner WOD

8min As Many Reps As Possible:

Max Calories 

Max Hand Release Push Ups

Switch at the top of Every Minute

Do you have a strategy for Fight Gone Bad? Do you know how to quickly transition into and out of the row? Today’s Rowing WOD is a great opportunity to develop both.  Go hard, but be consistent with your pressure on the erg.  This workout is only 8 minutes long to give you a sense for the effort needed during a 2k Row.  

One partner starts on the erg and the other does push ups.  At the top of every minute switch.  Each partner will get a chance to perform each exercise four times.

Post your teams total calories and total push ups to comments.  If you don’t have a partner share Renegade Rowing with someone new.

Rowing WOD 8/22: 750m Row; 4 Rds: 5 Deadlifts, 5 Wall Climbs; 750m Row – Post Time/Load

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Rowing WOD 8/22:

Complete For Time:

750m Row,

4 Rounds:

5 Deadlifts

5 Wall Climbs,

750m Row

Whether you’re picking up groceries off the floor, getting your body up off the floor, or taking a stroke during a race, you’re ability to transfer energy from your core to extremity will determine your success.  Your ability to transfer force from your feet to your hands and vice versa will get you where you want to go.  In Rowing applying pressure to the footboards and matching that feeling of pressure to the handle is what leads to a smooth, connected stroke.  

Today’s Rowing WOD gives us an opportunity to test our race pace at the 750m distance as well as develop our body awareness, core strength, and ability to connect the feet to the hands with a foundational lift and gymnastic movement.  For the deadlifts the prescribed weight for firebreathers is 315lbs for men and 275lbs for women.  Scale the weight accordingly.  For the wall climbs start on your belly with your feet touching a wall.  Then do a push up and walk your feet up the wall as you walk your hands toward the wall.  The goal is to touch your chest to the wall and then walk back down with control.  Scale by doing 3 instead of 5 or not going as high on the wall.

Post your time and load to comments!

Rowing WOD 8/18: 3 RFT – 25 Med Ball Cleans, 500m Row – Post Time

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Rowing WOD 8/18:

3 Rounds For Time

25 Medicine Ball Cleans (20#/14#)

500m Row

Functional Movements are glorious for both rowing and fitness.  They are the movements we need to survive AND excel in sports.  Functional movements are powerful, use multiple joints, and feel awesome when executed well.  Almost all functional movement involves the extension of the hips and the proper recruitment of muscles from core to extremity.  

When combining a foundational movement like the med ball clean with rowing on the erg there is an opportunity for skill transfer.  Athletes can use the med ball clean to promote good rowing form and rowers can use the med ball clean to focus on better hip extension and posterior chain engagement.  One main problem with athletes jumping on the erg for the first time is the tendency to clench and pull with the arms when all the work should be done by the legs and hips.  By engaging the legs first and getting full extension with loose arms on the med ball clean, the novice rower can think about and feel the same thing on the erg or in the boat.  For rowers looking for more power and speed, there is a lot to be gained in developing the ability to draw from the glutes and hamstrings during the drive and forcefully extend the hips as the torso opens.  Rowers should focus on driving through the heels and making the ball weightless with the hips.

For both movements in today’s Rowing WOD try to be smooth and efficient.  If you’re confident in your movement then push the pace.

Post time to comments!

Rowing WOD 8/15: AMMAP 10 − Row For Distance, 20 DU Every Minute – Post Meters Rowed

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Rowing WOD 8/15:

10min – As Many Meters As Possible

Row For Distance

*Start w/ 20 Double Unders

**Perform 20 Double Unders at the top of every minute

When it comes to Double Unders and WODs with supplemental tasks to perform every minute it helps to focus on rhythm.  Don’t freak out about the clock.  Just find your rhythm, breathe, and flow.  The same focus is needed on the row in today’s Rowing WOD.  When you get to the erg just strap in and get the flywheel moving.  Then focus on solid pressure and breathing.  Try to put some of the ratio work from Monday to use so that you have a chance to breathe and recover on the recovery.  Finding a smooth rhythm on the erg will help maintain your efficiency.  Try not to pause through the finish.  Keep the hands moving.  Also use this wod to practice the quick release getting off the erg.  

Holding the lowest split possible consistently every stroke should be the goal.  Remain efficient and don’t blow yourself up on any one stroke.  Push through and get as many meters as possible!

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Rowing WOD 8/11: 1k Row, 10 Lateral Burpees, 800m, 10 LB, 600m, 10 LB, 400m, 10 LB, 200m – Post Time

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Rowing WOD 8/11:

1k Row

10 Lateral Burpees (over the erg)

800m Row

10 Lateral Burpees

600m Row

10 Lateral Burpees

400m Row

10 Lateral Burpees

200m Row

Some rowers may ask why we would combine anything else with rowing when it’s a great workout in itself and gets results.  By learning to move our body in different planes and push our boundaries in other domains we can further improve our body awareness and control.  In all sports the ability to move through your hips and utilize a solid core will give you a step up against your competitors.  While rowing requires a certain amount of skill, those with skill and greater work capacity will win the race.  Burpees are a challenging movement that will help increase your work capacity and teach you to use your hips.  Rather than doing a perfect push up, lift your chest off the ground first and then pop your hips up to get off the floor.  Everyone should have the ability to quickly get off the floor and that is the idea of the burpee in today’s Rowing WOD.  The Lateral Burpees should be done parallel to the erg so that when you pop up you jump laterally over the erg rail.  Each time over the erg is one rep.

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