Category Archives: Rowing

Row and Squat Clean-to-Overhead: Two Great Exercises that Go Great Together

Posted on February 25, 2010 by

The brutal part of this WoD is that the motion and muscles required to do a good squat clean (drive with the legs, then pull with the arms) is replicated in the rowing part of the WoD. So after you finish hammering out ~2:00 minutes on the erg, you go straight to heavy squat cleans. Continue reading →

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CrossFit Garage Gym WoD: St. Paddy (Again)

Posted on August 23, 2009 by

I wanted to see if I’ve made any progress on this WoD, so 5 months later, I gave it another shot. My time today was a bit more than a minute faster, finishing in 17:50. Also, I did the more difficult resistance band pull-ups instead of jumping pull-ups…so all the better. Continue reading →

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CrossFit Central: Birthday WoD

Posted on August 20, 2009 by

Today is my 41st birthday, which means “Birthday Burpees” at CrossFit Central. Instead of our normal warmup, we all (much to the consternation of my fellow athletes) got to do 41 burpees instead. Continue reading →

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CrossFit Central WoD: Dead, Row, Muscle Up..Dead

Posted on August 13, 2009 by

Onto the last set of dead lifts, and I could see Daniel struggling, doing 3-4 reps at a time. I knocked out sets of 10-10-5, with just a 4-5 second rest between each mini-set. Continue reading →

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CrossFit WoD: Three Scaled Elements

Posted on July 30, 2009 by

I hate that I had to scale all three elements of this WoD: rowing + scaled weight (35lbs) + jumping pull ups. Continue reading →

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CrossFit Central WoD: KB AMRAP

Posted on July 23, 2009 by

I finished 7 full rounds + 17 KB snatches. Subbed 100m rowing for the running, which, as one of our trainers noted, probably made the WoD a lot harder for this particular set of exercises. Continue reading →

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CrossFit Central WoD: Nicole

Posted on June 11, 2009 by

My max pull up numbers were quite weak: only a total of 54. However, today was the first time that I didn’t’ do all jumping pull ups for a pull up WoD. Continue reading →

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Crossfit Central WoD: Overhead

Posted on April 2, 2009 by

The first round I was able to do all 7 hang power snatches uninterrupted, and kept the bar overhead on the last rep and went straight into my overhead squats. Those felt good too and were uninterrupted. 3 burpees is a good number (when discussing burpees, fewer is always better than more). Continue reading →

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CrossFit Garage Gym WoD: Shoulders

Posted on March 28, 2009 by

Great shoulder burnout WoD this afternoon in my garage gym Continue reading →

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CrossFit Garage Gym WoD: Glute Killer

Posted on March 24, 2009 by

I’ve found that a good warm up with some slow squats followed by some Concept 2 rowing, and I can get through most ROM exercises. So today I decided to push that theory and really work my knees and squatting motion with. Continue reading →

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