The holidays are over and the Rogue Warriors are back home!!! Time to go to work! We all have lots of holiday cookies and other consumables to work off. As you can see from the pics the Rogue athletes showed up and attacked the workouts. There are a few of our athletes that still have to come back to us after the holiday break. We at Rogue are patiently and anxiously awaiting your arrival 
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| From Rogue Factory Store |
Don’t miss out on the Free Shipping and other specials, click here to see them!
Here are some Rogue Updates:
1) Rogue will host the following events/seminars:
25-26April08 - CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Seminar - Click this link to sign up
7-8Mar08 CrossFit Level 1 Seminar
16-17May08 CrossFit Games Qualifier - Midwest Region - We will be releasing details and a dedicated page prior to 1Feb08.
2) New Rogue Squat Stands will be released later this month. The new industry standard is near!
3) Rogue MARPAT camo straps will available in January for the Rogue Rings!!!
At each of the events above we will be using all new equipment and then will sell all of it at a discount. All of those items will go to attendees on a First come first serve basis. If all of the items do not get sold we will release a list on this blog.
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| From Grand Canyon |
We should have turned around here!
On New Years Caity Matter and Bill Henniger setoff to go down the Grand Canyon on the South Kaibab Trail then back up the Bright Angel Loop trail. Normally hikers will do this over 2-3 days, but we decided to do it in one day. The trek starts with a 8 mile journey down the canyon, cross the Colorado River then 2 miles down the river and finally 8.5 Miles up the canyon. We made it to the river at noon and to the top by 5PM.
This is quite possibly the most brutal experience of my life and I am completely torn up. Caity and I are both walking with broken joints. The views were awesome and the scenery was insanely amazing.
If you ever wonder what you are training for, it is the ability to tackle any challenge layed out in front of you. You have to just chip away at things sometimes, don’t quit!
What are doing this year? If our training looks unique and effective, come in and try it out! Elements 1 kicks off every Monday, contact eddie@roguefitness.com if you are interested.
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| From Rogue Bumpers |
These bumpers stand the test of time, there is no better training bumper for weightlifting. We carry 10, 15, 25, 35 & 45LB variants. We keep our shelves stocked with bumpers, bars, kettlebells, rings and much more. When you order an equipment package, all the items will ship from here!! We save by consolidating and that is why we ship them for free!
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| From Rogue Factory Store |
Call or email us if you need to outfit your facility or just want the best gear for your garage.
614.358.6190
bill@roguefitness.com
Rogue Fitness is hosting the CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification run by Coach Burgener. Check out the video above to get a feel for how things will work at the cert.
Here are the details:
April 25th & 26th
CrossFit Olympic Lifting Certification
Rogue Fitness
You can pre-register here: www.regonline.com/OHOLYApr2009
Per the norm we will bust out all new equipment for the cert to include all new Burg & Rip bars and at the end of the cert the gear will be offered at a discount for those that would like to take them home.
We hope everyone one had a great Christmas and enjoyed lots of holiday treats with family and friends. If you have been away from Rogue for a while remember to get back in here as soon as possible so we can get to working off all of those holiday treats.
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| From A&F Challenge 9/13/08 |
I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Mine was pretty special, I am now engaged to Caity Matter. So it is now official Bill Henniger and Caity Matter have taken that step! Look for pics from the Grand Canyon, we are celebrating by going down and up the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I have done this once before and swore I would never do it again but here we go.
Look for great things this year as we expedite new equipment made in the USA by Rogue. We will be manufacturing Rogue Squat Stands, Pullup Systems, PlyoBoxes and Military Obstacle Courses. This is just a small cross section of what we will offer. We don’t take preorders for foreign made equipment, we build it test it then test it again, then test it more, then drop it off a building. Then we offer it in our store! Our success is based off of the ingenuity of our team, athletes and customers that give us ideas and feedback. If you have any product ideas or anything you believe we should modify, shoot me an email: bill@roguefitness.com
We are offering our Christmas specials 7Jan08 so make sure and take advantage of them. We will launch our new product line right around that time as well.
Here is the link to the Christmas Specials
We are launching a few new sites over the next month so stay tuned to the Rogue Blog!
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| From US Army PT System |
At Rogue our mission is to offer equipment made in the USA by Americans. This is very important when you look at the current state of our economy. Here is a short story:
When I worked at GM, a man named Gary Farmer worked on the shipping dock. He was a good old boy that had a beard, always had some chew in and wore coveralls. He liked to fish and tell stories and was very sharp. I was a young guy trying to make it through the ranks as quickly as possible always trying to work the system. I used to go back and talk to Gary every night because he was my life line for incoming parts. A few years back the plant outsourced a few of the operations to a different company hence we had to truck parts out of the plant and then back to the plant. Here were the issues:
1) Had to make more parts to keep the pipeline full
2) Lost the business at our plant hence our workers were unhappy
3) Lost control of the quality to an outside vendor when we had decades of experience making these parts
Well we could barely keep the pipeline full with the focus on budget and I worked second shift hence I got what the other shifts had set me up for. So one night the assembly room was shut down waiting on parts from my department and I needed to get them from the outside vendor. I begged and pleaded for Gary to break the normal lot size and get me some parts. He very candidly explained, “If you don’t feed the horse it don’t sh**”. I learned a valuable lesson that day, one of simplicity. Our management team had driven the work to a complicated web of suppliers and made it near impossible to keep the supply lines full, not to mention the quality control problems.
Over the past decade the CEO’s of large corporations have spent every waking moment trying to figure out how to outsource our manufacturing but the problem is that this cuts the supply line of funds from the workers. It also follows Gary’s first law of physics: If you don’t feed the horse it don’t sh**
Here are some of the products made in the US:
1) Rogue Bar - This bar is machined and assemble in the USA
4) Rogue Rings - These are made by Ian Maclean in Columbus Ohio
I have had the opportunity to manufacture all of the above in other countries but have chosen to keep it in the US. Our rings have a lifetime guarantee against breaking!
Don’t forget Gary’s Law!
We know that the holidays are very busy times with family, shopping, opening presents and feeding our faces (a personal favorite of Eddie’s). So we understand that it is very difficult to make it in to Rogue this time of year. Those of you who have managed to squeeze a little Rogue love into your busy schedules continue to come in and attack whatever workout the white board deems worthy of your efforts.
Be sure to check the Rogue training calendar for the holiday schedule.
We shipped out a ton of gear today! We still have Christmas specials going on, check them out:
If you see a MIL stamped Rogue box at your doorstep then you know you will have an awesome Christmas!
ROGUE HOLIDAY TRAINING SCHEDULE:
1) Evening Class - 630PM only for Monday & Tuesday
2) Christmas Eve - Noon Only
3) Christmas - No Class