Concept2 Forum

I have wanted to look differently for 58, soon to be 59 years now. It has been the main motivation for my athletic endeavors, if I’m honest. But the reality is you have what you have and there isn’t much you can do about it but be healthy and accepting. It’s amazing when you get older and you look b...

Hands away, hinge over the legs, let legs fold into catch. Get yourself into a more powerful drive position at catch. Think deadlift or power clean. Think hinge and keep it there until legs have pushed off. Don’t pull with feet to get into catch

Not sure if this has been mentioned: one of the reasons you open your back early on the drive is that you don’t get your trunk over your legs as the first part of recovery sequence. Hands away, hip hinge to get your trunk over your legs, then fold legs into the catch. You trunk is behind the sequenc...

If I wasn’t way out of shape and if I didn’t hate 2Ks as much as I do, I think it would be interesting to test this with 20 x 100m zero rest intervals and see what it does to average pace

You get some free strokes (strokes well under actual pace) at the beginning of each rep, so it’s not totally accurate for posting on the big board as far as I would guess

I remember when I first started I thought “shouldn’t be hard to be good at this” :oops: If you are truly loving it, I would think about stopping back and building rowing fitness and allowing your pace follow that. Make a longer term goal, such as rowing in a completion once they come back. Slow down...

what if we quit weight lifting and go on with concept 2 rowing and bodyweight exercises like pull ups, push ups. after 40 years old age. thanks IMO you should not stop weights ever - muscle mass becomes more important as you age, not less. Strong people with muscles live longer healthier lives so d...

I think you had it figured out! Low rate work let’s us build a strong sound stroke while also maintaining a level of effort that allows for endurance to be built - we can row longer. And with the time associated with recovery we can learn a good sequence (man, I’m starting to sound like James!). Man...

Not seeing you in action makes this tough. Could it be you are over extending your arms/shoulders and trying to reach too far? Keeping shoulders down and more packed in may help

A more accurate and relevant way to determine it would be to get on that bike and give it a go!

Isn’t RPE a tricky way to measure this? In my basement on the erg with nice cool air and a good tv show, I am really chill but feel the effort of each stroke because there isn’t much else to focus on. But OTW there is so much going on, balance, looking where you are going, maybe wanting to stay up w...

Me too. I always thought that it had to do with having my mind on balancing and wanting to move the boat. So instead of using a soft stroke to lower hr as on the erg, I am more focused on maxing drive otw and my hr runs away. Plus there are more stimuli on the water, such as not wanting to go in it,...

Surely if energy/ power delivery is equal between 2 rowers, and fitness etc, then the one with the longer stroke length will cover the meters faster? Or am I missing something Rowers are often not very heavy, but tall, 6.4/6/7 is very normal, weight think 190/210 lbs. If they had a average height w...

For me it was more like 2K+20. Maybe 15 on a good day

Dude - just row! Let it be what it is. Put your curious mind into what your body is doing, how you are breathing, if your shoulders are nice and relaxed, if you are hinging at your hips....