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Renegade Rowing League #3 Postponed until Sunday @8am – Rowing WOD 1/24/15: Row 2k! – Post Results

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***Update: RRL3 is canceled for today because of the Snow.  It will be held tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 8am.  Hope to see you all there! Email pat@renegaderowing.com if you have questions.  Stay Warm and Stay Safe Boston!***

It has arrived!  Renegade Rowing League Race #3 is here!  If you’re in the Boston area come compete and cheer everyone on at 100 Holton St, Brighton, MA.  It starts at 8:00am and we will be awarding the Renegade Rowing Cup afterward.  Let the games begin!

Rowing WOD:

Get After It!

2k Row

Today’s Rowing WOD is a 2k Row.  It’s a test of how much pain and glory you can endure over seven to eight minutes.  Grab some friends and get after it.  This is our second test of the winter season and will give us a baseline to work off of and use in pacing future workouts. Be in the moment, execute your splits, smile, have some fun, breath, and get after it!

Post your 2k results to comments!

Strength and Conditioning WOD 1/23/15: Re-Test: “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:

Re-Test: “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.

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!

Rowing and Strength WOD 1/20/15: 10 x 250m w/ :45r and 5×5 Deadlift – Post Splits and Loads

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Rowing WOD:

Does your race plan involve you're Warm Up?

10 x 250m w/ 45 seconds Rest

  • Execute Race Plan
  • Post Splits to Comments

CRASH-B’s and the Open are right around the corner and now is the time to start thinking about your game plan for the 2k and for certain WODs.  Those with experience know the benefit of pacing, gaming, and executing a plan to produce a personal best performance.  In the end a game plan facilitates mental toughness and focus to deal with pain when things get tough.

This Saturday, January 24th, we will be testing our 2k again at the Renegade Rowing League.  If you’re in the Boston Area you’re invited to come and visit CrossFit Boston and compete in the Renegade Rowing League.  It will take place from 8am – 9am.  In order to prepare for testing and competition some of the rowing wods this week will be focused on race pressure and executing a race plan.

Today’s focus is Rowing and Strength.  In the Rowing WOD focus on executing a 2k race plan at high intensity.  Set the monitor for intervals distance with 250m of Work and 45 seconds of Rest.  Row the first two pieces as if they were the start of the 2k.  Row the next three pieces as if they were part of the second 500m, Row the next three pieces as if they were part of the third 500m, and finish the last two pieces with a sprint like the end of a race.

This should not be an all out 250m Max Effort, but rather a calculated effort at a split close to what you think your current 2k split would be.  The goal should be to pull the lowest split possible, consistently through all 10 intervals.  For example: alternating between splits of 1:50 and 2:00 is inefficient.  Instead consistently pull 1:55 every interval.

Post your Splits and Thoughts to comments.

**** Example Dynamic Warm Ups ****

Renegade Rowing Dynamic WarmUp

Renegade Rowing DROM In Place