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Rowing WOD 4/28/14: 2 x 15min Power and Ratio – Post Distances

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Rowing WOD:

The RRC hitting a solid warmup before practice over the winter. Who's ready to get on the water?

The RRC hitting a solid warmup before practice over the winter. Who’s ready to get on the water?

2 x 15min w/ 5min Rest …

  • 5′ @ 20 s/m
  • 5′ @ 22
  • 3′ @ 24
  • 2′ @ 26

5min Rest

  • 2′ @ 26 s/m
  • 3′ @ 24
  • 5′ @ 22
  • 5′ @ 20

Today’s Rowing WOD is a chance to work on Rhythm and Timing while building some aerobic endurance.  In long chippers rowing can be used as active recovery and a chance to catch your breath.  Try to find the efficient rhythm and consistent pressure you’ll need to recover mid WOD.  Every five minutes the rating will change to keep you focused.  Try to fix one part of your stroke each five minutes.  Your effort level on this should be such that you can get out sentences to a neighbor, but breathing is labored.  In the last five minutes keep your efficiency but really try to bring the split down as the stroke rating increases.  In the second 15 minutes the stroke rating is going to decrease.  Try to get ratio and keep the power up.  Don’t let the split jump up.  Focus on pushing the legs down faster and taking longer on the recovery.

Post your distance rowed each piece!

Rest Day 4/27/14: Go see a Regatta! Share your experience!

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Rest Day:

Big Regattas coming up this month! How many times will you race this weekend?

Big Regattas coming up this month! How many times will you race this weekend?

Go See a Regatta!

This weekend marks the beginning of the championship regatta season with many big regattas taking place around the country.  Find your nearest rowing center and see if there’s a race happening.  Set yourself up by the finish or start to see the best action.  Also check out the launching and landing areas to see the controlled chaos it takes to make a regatta happen.

Are you Ready to Race?

Share your experience!

Rowing WOD 4/26/14: 8 x 500m w/ 2min Rest – Post Splits and Focus

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Rowing WOD:

8 x 500m w/ 2min Rest

1st/2nd – Like start of 2k

3rd/4th – Like 2nd 500 of 2k

5th/6th – Like 3rd 500 of 2k

7th/8th – Like finish of 2k

We’ve attacked this Rowing WOD a few times this winter.  Look back at your results and see if you’re ready to step it up another notch.  This is a great opportunity to focus on a few tactical aspects of the 2k and get in some solid race pace work.  Try to keep a consistent pace over all 8 or “negative split” toward the end if you’re feeling good.  Negative splitting means you pull a faster split than you did the previous piece.

As a quick review for novice rowers, race pace over 2,000m will be at a stroke rating of 28 − 32 strokes per minute and a consistent 500m split.  The lower the split the better.  Good things to focus on include breathing, getting the knees down, driving through the heels, quick hands, and being smooth.  I also like to coach a smile or grin 10 just to take yourself out of your body for a second, have some fun, and then refocus with a fresh mindset.  Focus on one positive thought for 10 consecutive strokes and you’ll be that much closer to your goal.

Post your split for each piece and share what you focused on!

Rowing WOD 4/25/14: EMOM10 − 10 Calories, Max KB Swings – Post Total Swings

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Rowing WOD:

BC Men's Rowing getting after some KB Swings!

BC Men’s Rowing getting after some KB Swings!

Every Minute On The Minute for 10min perform …

10 Calorie Row

Max KB Swings (1.5/1 pd) (As many as possible before the next minute)

Today’s Rowing WOD is an opportunity to focus on connection and suspension.  Have good posture and try to suspend off of the seat with each stroke.  Feel weightless on the seat but keep the forces horizontal so the seat stays with you.  If you can combine this feeling with good connection between the seat and the hands at the beginning of each drive you will have infinite power!  Good connection means you’re seat and hands change direction together and move at the same rate.  They should cover the same amount of distance in the same amount of time during the first part of the drive.  Feel for connection and suspension and crush this workout.

To get a high score you’ll need efficiency in both the rowing and kettle bell swings.  For the swings stay back on the heels, use the hips to move the weight, and keep a solid posture.  Imagine you’re spreading the floor as you load the hips and drive through the heels.  The kettle bell swing is a great tool to develop the glutes and hamstrings which are needed during the middle of the drive when we get our heels down.  Try to feel the same activation when you get back on the rower and fight for smooth suspension.

Have fun and post the total number of kettle bell swings you complete over the course of workout.  If you can, it might also be nice to see the number of swings per round to see consistency.

Rowing WOD 4/24/14: 3RFT – 500m Row, (21-15-9) Push Ups, (21-15-9) Power Cleans – Post Time and Game Plan

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Rowing WOD;

Working the skill of Suspension with athletes from MSCF!

Working the skill of Suspension with athletes from MSCF!

Complete For Time…

500m Row

21 Push Ups

21 Power Cleans (95/65 lbs.)

500m Row

15 Push Ups

15 Power Cleans (95/65 lbs.)

500m Row

9 Push Ups

9 Power Cleans (95/65 lbs.)

Today’s Rowing WOD is a perfect opportunity to take advantage of ratio and suspension.  Come up with a game plan that you can focus on and execute when the pain starts to kick in.  For the first 500m try sticking to a 28 stroke rating with good suspension to keep your breath and take advantage of your fresh legs.  Whatever you hold for a split, your goal will be to hold that split for the second and third rounds.  Each time you return to the erg your legs will be a little more gassed, so focus on keeping suspension, but rowing at a higher stroke rating to make the same split feel lighter.  For example, if you row the first 500m at a stroke rate of 28 s/m and a split of 1:50 /500m, then try the second 500m at a stroke rate of 30 s/m, and the third 500m at a stroke rate of 32 s/m.  If you aim for the same split of 1:50 /500m for both, the pressure exerted on the handle should feel lighter and easier to maintain.  Once you finish rowing be sure to practice a quick release and fall to the floor to begin your push ups.  For the push ups be sure to stay fresh and avoid going to failure so that you can keep moving and not wait around for your muscles to recover.  On the power cleans use your hips to move the weight and focus on fast elbows.

Have some fun creating a game plan and get after it!

Post your time to comments along with how you attacked this one!