Category Archives: Strength

What are you doing to improve efficiency and performance in competition this year?

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Brand New Renegades were formed at the RR Workshop at Mt. Strength CrossFit on Saturday!

Brand New Renegades were formed at the RR Workshop at Mt. Strength CrossFit last year.  Will you join them this year?

Deliberate practice makes perfect, but sometimes you need to get out of your garage or out of your box to gain more knowledge and improve your skills.  This is one of many posts I’ll be offering up to the world that will highlight amazing opportunities to get out of your normal routine, learn something new, and have some fun.

On January 31st at 1pm, Mt. Strength CrossFit in Winchester, MA will be hosting a two-hour Renegade Rowing Workshop.  Head Coach Patrick Larcom will be at Mt. Strength CrossFit to give everyone the knowledge they need to improve their rowing and performance in competition.

Checkout some highlights of what you’ll be learning and don’t forget to register below!

Register Here!

Rowing WOD 1/21/15: “Jackie” – 1,000m Row, 50 Thrusters, 30 Pull Ups – Post Time and Avg Split

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Rowing WOD:

RR Team back on the water! Hopefully this summer we'll be able to do "Jackie" on the water! Let us know if you want to join in!

“Jackie”

For time:

Row 1,000 meters

50 Thrusters (45/35 pounds)

30 Pull-ups

The Girl WODs were introduced as benchmark workouts to measure your performance and improvements throughout your training.  Today’s Rowing WOD is“Jackie”, a newer girl, aimed at measuring your efficiency and performance through three different full body movements.  It’s a great workout to test how well your technique has developed.  Ideally you’ll be able to hold a consistent split all the way through and leave your legs just fresh enough to go unbroken on the thrusters.  Before you start, take some time to think about your game plan, the split you want to hold, how you’ll break up thrusters, and how to game the pull ups.

Post your time to comments!

RRTP 1/19/15 and S&C WOD 1/19/15: 3/4 Little Cindy – Post Score

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Snapshot of this weeks work. Renegade Rowing League takes place this Saturday! Sign Up Here!

Snapshot of this weeks work. Renegade Rowing League takes place this Saturday! Sign Up Here!

Sorry this is getting out a bit late tonight Renegades!  I just got home from my first Olympic Lifting Meet and it was Epic!  I PR’ed my Clean and Jerk and had a blast.  Here is the training plan for the week.  Take a look, get fired up, and let’s keep getting after it!

RRTP 1-19-15

Heat 3 at the first RRL in December! Register for January's Event Here.

Heat 3 at the first RRL in December! Register for January’s Event Here.

Conditioning WOD:

3/4 Little Cindy

AMRAP15

3 Pull Ups

6 Push Ups

9 Air Squats

  • Post Rounds and Reps to Comments.

Today is another opportunity to build strength and work capacity while focusing on the sport specifics of rowing.  Get in a good warmup on the erg and dial in your sequence on the recovery with the pic drill. Once you’re warm take it over to the platform and dial in your Back Squat.  When you’re ready, attack this version of Cindy.  During 3/4 Little Cindy focus on quality reps/movement with good breathing and consistent pace.  Split it up as needed being sure not to go to failure on any single rep.  It will take twice as long to recover if you do.

Start the week off right and get after it!

Strength and Conditioning WOD 1/14/15: “Duxbury Helen” – 3RFT – 250m Row, 21 Air Squats, 12 Push Ups – Post Time

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Bob and Coach Pat attacking the 2k at CRASH-B 2014

Strength and Conditioning WOD:

“Duxbury Helen” – 3 Rounds For Time

  • 250m Row
  • 21 Air Squats
  • 12 Push Ups

Today’s focus is aerobic conditioning and mental strength.  Get in some good skill work to warmup with a 10min erg.  Be sure to warmup the air squat and push up as well.  Then attack the Strength and Conditioning WOD.  I created this WOD for the Duxbury Rowers working with Renegade Rowing on the weekends.  They don’t have a ton of equipment, but they have each other and that’s all you need to push harder than ever before.  Go hard for the start and finish, but be smooth and efficient through the bulk of the work.  Focus on breathing and consistent pace.  At the end of the day this will take about the same time as a race and allow you to mentally dig deep and push yourself harder.  In the end it’s all in your head.  How hard, how far, how fast can you push yourself?

Take quality strokes and have fun getting after it.

Post your time to comments as well as your splits for each 250m piece.

RRTP and Strength WOD 1/12/15: 6×4 BS, 6×5 Push Ups, EMOM6 – 6 BS @60% for Speed

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Training Plan for the Week!

Training Plan for the Week!

Here’s the Renegade Rowing Training Plan for the week.  Have fun and attack it!

RRTP 1-12-15

Strength WOD:

1a.) 6×4 Back Squat

1b.) 6×5 Push Ups

2.) EMOM6 – 6 Back Squat @60% of 1a.) for Drive Speed

Mickey getting after Back Squats

Mickey getting after Back Squats

The focus of today is Strength, so be sure to get in the Strength WOD of 6×4 Back Squats.  Be sure to superset 1a and 1b.  The Push Ups should be as heavy as possible with good form and speed on the push.  In part 2 be sure to be smooth and controlled on the way down and explosive on the way up.  How fast can you move that bar?  If time allows, choose the blocks that will help you improve as an athlete.  If you have enough time for all three blocks then attack them all!

If everything else is equal, the stronger rower will win.

Get Strong and Have Fun!

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