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Rowing WOD 5/23/15: 4 x 2:00 w/ :30 Rest – Post Splits

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Rowing WOD:

Renegade Rowing Workshop - Saturday, March 22nd - 1:00-3:00 pm @Mountain Strength CF - Register Here!

4 x 2:00 w/ :30 Rest

  • 2k Race Pace
  • Execute Race Plan – Look at Tuesday’s Rowing WOD to adjust your plan and pick the right splits.
  • Post Average Splits to Comments.

Today’s Rowing WOD is all about executing your race plan and sticking to your splits.  For the first piece come out fast with a good start and then 7 to 10 quick strokes.  Then be sure to settle right to the pace you’d like to hold for the first 500m of a 2k.   For the second and third pieces paddle into them and hold strong at your ideal race pace.  Imagine they are the second and third 500m of the race.  During the 30 seconds of rest paddle lightly, take deep breaths through your nose, and try to bring your heart rate down.  For the last piece hold steady at your race pace and then sprint out the last 30 seconds like you’re sprinting for the finish line.  Have positive mental cues ready for all 4 pieces just like during the race.  There is no room for negativity or “I can’t…” phrases.  They won’t help you.  Just sit up, breath, push the legs down, swing, have quick hands, and attack.  Each stroke is an opportunity to spin that flywheel a little faster and each piece an opportunity to get yourself that much closer to a personal record.  Get hungry and get after it!

Post your average 500m splits for each piece to comments.

Rowing WOD 5/22/15: 3x15min w/ 4min Rest – Post Distances

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Rowing WOD:

Tryout for the Renegade Rowing Team this Friday!

3 x 15min w/ 4min Rest

Varying Stroke Rate as follows

  • 4min @ 20 s/m; 75% Pressure,
  • 3min @ 22 s/m; 80% Pressure,
  • 2min @ 24 s/m; 85% Pressure,
  • 1min @26 s/m; 90% Pressure,
  • 2min @24 s/m; 90% Pressure,
  • 3min @22 s/m; 90% Pressure

Today’s Rowing WOD will give athletes a chance to focus on a couple of technique fixes as well as gaining confidence to keep their head in the game every stroke for 15 minutes.  Pick a goal split you want to hold for each stroke rating and see how consistent you can be each time you’re at that rating.  Try to be a little more consistent and push a little bit farther each piece.  A good goal is to bring your split down by 3-5 seconds every time the rating shifts up.  When the rating shifts back down your goal should be to hold the same split you were holding on the last stroke rating.  Focus on smooth rhythm, vary the pressure of your drive and the length of your recovery to shift ratings, and breathe.

Report in with your distance rowed each piece.

Strength and Conditioning WOD 5/20/15: “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.

Rowing WOD 5/19/15: Max Pressure – 15 x :20 On/ :40 Off – Post Fastest, Slowest, and Avg Split

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Rowing WOD:

Dave getting after it in Heat 3 of the Renegade Rowing League!

15 x :20 On, :40 Off

Max Pressure

  • Post Fastest, Slowest, and Avg Split to Comments

Elite fitness is all about developing power through high intensity.  Today’s Rowing WOD is an opportunity to push your boundaries and test the limits of your speed.  Catch your breath and focus on the 40 seconds off so that you can put every ounce of energy into suspending from the oar and going low on the split.  Compare your results to your 2k race plan.  Do you last through the first 7, but die soon after?  Could you go faster at the start of your 2k?  What happens to your focus in the last couple?  Use your results to adjust your race plan and goal for our next 2k test.  The idea of suspension can be very powerful when you’re trying to pull low splits under fatigue.  Check it out below.

Post your fastest, slowest, and average splits to comments.

Try warming up with a couple of strap drills to feel and practice suspending from the oar.    Have Fun!

RR Training Plan 5/18/15 and S&C WOD: AMRAP7 – 20 Cals, 20 DU – Post Score

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Hey Renegades!  I hope you all enjoyed that beautiful weekend and got to watch some championship racing.  I was down in Clemson watching the BC Women at the 2015 ACC Rowing Championships, which aired on ESPN3.  Very cool stuff!  Here is the plan for the week: RR Training Plan 5-18-15

Truckin with Boats last weekend!

Truckin with Boats last weekend!

Strength and Conditioning WOD:

AMRAP7

20 Calorie Row

20 Double Unders

  • Post rounds and reps to comments.

The focus of today is Strength, Power, and Breathing.  Be sure to Row Strong at all times as if it were race day. If time allows, hit the rowing block as well to improve your aerobic endurance and fully recover.  Today I want you to practice your mental focus and mind-set for race day.  Work for 7 solid minutes trying to flow and breath through the double unders.  When you get on the erg be present every stroke and maximize your efficiency and power as if it were the last stroke of the race.

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

Get Strong and Have Fun!