27
Mar
CROSSFIT SUFFOLK: Powered By SPARTAN PERFORMANCE
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR ROWING TECHNIQUE
Workout of the Day
Workout 15.5
For complete workout standards, video and scorecard click here.
27-21-15-9 reps for time of:
Row (calories)
Thrusters
Men use 95 lb.
Women use 65 lb.
SCALED: Men 65lbs., Women 45lbs.
Post your scores to the Whiteboard.
Good luck everyone!
Heres an awesome science breakdown of the comparison of rowing for calories vs rowing for distance for anyone like myself who had no idea
http://ctowncrossfit.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/36/files/2014/12/Rower-Data.pdf
Pat – great article, thanks
Great article Pat!
For those of you who did not read the article Pat posted here’s the take home lesson:
“After reading this article you’ll know that if you’re rowing for distance you probably won’t go to the redline and that if you’re rowing for calories you might. Why? Because going faster only reduces the time it takes to go a certain distance a little bit while going faster reduces the time it takes to count a given number of calories by a lot.
This happens because the relationship between speed and distance is linear and the relationship between speed and calories is exponential. In plain English, the payoff for going faster is small when rowing for distance but is enormous when rowing for calories. Why? It has to do with drag.”–Author unknown at this time, but the document came from CTown CrossFit