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To be 30 again...you are in your prime, my friend. Masters rowing sprint racing is over 1K. To me it is so much more friendly than a 2K and allows training to be more balanced. I feel like the strength training carries over a little more, or maybe the time spent doing weight training doesn’t negativ...

Yup. Watch how fast an Olympians breathing comes back down. Amazing.

Jack - I knew you were slacking that whole time we were training together Me too. And Pieman, and Mike, and Blood and....

Just watch Eric Murray’s training videos and you can see that he suffers just like the rest of us do. Yes, he has won a genetic lottery and has maximized its benefits through amazingly hard work, but it doesn’t keep him from hurting at his max efforts. Or if you saw the Boat Race this year and saw t...

Bummer about the Interactive Plan. It was a convenient resource. So I’m gearing up for a 1K test. Did a little pyramid to see how things felt: 100: 1.38.1, r34 200: 1.38.2, r34 400: 1.38.0, r33 600: 1.38.2, r35 250: 1.37.5, r36 8’ Steady State bike in between - not hard or easy just keeping HR stead...

4 x 1500, r20, 1:59.2 avg. 5’ bike and 8 reps incline bench at 185# between.

https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/7N8a3RILO_0LaHl5Q_d2HRq8M96VUp1OwB6MJ296ohY-768x512.jpg This felt pretty easy to control. Very bottom of UT1 range for me. The one 0.1 split difference messes with the perfectionist in me. I watched the monitor break from 46:40.0 to 46:40.1 during the end calcul...

This morning: 3 x 1500m, r19, 1:59.6 interspersed with bike at UT HR for 5’ then 4 TGU each side to the high hip position with an easy 25#. 45’ total. Very tough pulling sub 2:00 at r18/19 for me for that length and with marginal recovery between. Damn near hurled after the last one. Maybe being fas...

Got it!

Martin, can you dumb it down even further? What is the m in 1m per second. Is it essentially less than body weight if one is doing air squats?

So a friend asked me what rowing 200 watts as one pull would be I terms of lifting weight in pounds. This person is 165#. I’m too dumb to know if this can be calculated or not

Seems like the erg challenges the need for intense training and PB all year - maybe because one doesn’t get as beat up and injured. Downtime and periodization still seems necessary as in other sports. Everyone needs time in the year to be aimless and in maintenance mode

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March 14th, 2019, 5:11 am

Thursday PM
hard long interval session (and it really was hard enough)
6x 8'/2/R => 12119m @1:58.8
df127 sr27 209w
2:03.6 (139)
1:56.0 (154)
1:56.1 (161)
1:56.2 (165)
1:56.5 (168)
2:05.1 (158)

Lindsey, this session is haunting me. That’s a lot of work!

So I tried something early on: take a piece of string or a small bungy or something and tie on end to the center of the handle and tie the other end to the seat. Have just enough length so that you stay in the catch position comfortably. Then practice pushing away keeping tension on the string. in o...

What DF?

6 x 1K, 5’R, r26 cap, 1:51.2 avg pace