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ERGO: 3.5K comprising (2K progressive warmup@1:59.5, 6x250m (rests=150s, DF=144, SPM=42)@1:29.9)
WEIGHTS: InclinePress, OHP, HAMMERS, SKULLS, SideLaterals

Long shot I know, but are you also doing supplementary weight training and wearing a belt? I get rib pain when I've had the belt on too tight or slightly too high.

Just seen 10x5kg iron plates on ebay for £175 buyitnow!!! About a third of that normally.
Or....£125 for 2x10kg plates!! I bought 4 about 2yrs back for less than £50!!

If it's anything like the amount barbell plates, bars, benches etc are going for on ebay then the answer is ALOT!!!
Obvs people working out at home now corona has hit...and high street shops being closed.

When I did bike racing ending end of 2015 the people I did hear comment on HRV was that it wasn't a gamechanger as basically if you followed it you've never do any training! More recently I have heard the odd person in the media such as Ben Greenfield (podcast) extoll its virtues although you don't ...

Life getting in the way of late but: Yesterday: Ergo 30mins@1:56.4, DF=131 (a below par, even for me, of ~20K this week...crikey :shock: ) Today: Squats (5x5 heavy, 5 lighter sets pausing at the bottom and trying to improve form) Deads (4 sets with shrugs, 5x100kg practisiing speed off the floor) .....

@Stu - having done cycling, running and tri races, I'd say erging was the worst of the lot when it comes to mind games. That's interesting. I hate running, I might as well not swim as I'm so inefficient and the only cycling I have done is a 45 min spin class so I have no comparisons. When it came t...

@Stu - having done cycling, running and tri races, I'd say erging was the worst of the lot when it comes to mind games.

Today's 5k TT was a bit frustrating, I guess it was both bad sleep and about 8h of training this week, my legs were tired at the start, got a bit better for the first 3k and very tired for the 4th k. I saw no way to get sub18 in this last k so motivation was totally gone short before 4k and almost ...

Today's 5k TT was a bit frustrating, I guess it was both bad sleep and about 8h of training this week, my legs were tired at the start, got a bit better for the first 3k and very tired for the 4th k. I saw no way to get sub18 in this last k so motivation was totally gone short before 4k and almost ...

Lifters are unfit, cardio people are weak, certainly upperbody wise. Here a good 100% cardio, 0% strength example. As much as I would love to be even half as fast as Michael Rasmussen is on a bicycle, there's no way I'd be willing to pay the price he has to get there: Yes, extreme example, they did...

With home office I'm now able to get some extra UT2 meters on the bikeerg as we have conference calls every morning where I sit on the bike. Yesterday 90min bike @ 180W (AHR 110) and 45min on the rower @172W (AHR 118). This situation will last for some more weeks at least, hope this will help my ae...

After doing a truly massive 15K on the ergo last week (athough I did 3 weights sessions - one upper body, one lower, one mixed) I thought I better do some erging today. Set the distance to 7.5K and did the first 10 strokes without warming up and immediately felt good so I re-set and did a 30min sess...

Gabe_G wrote: ↑

March 28th, 2020, 7:36 am

Operative word being "may". Why not do both? No reason you can't train both.

True, but you have to choose somewhat....

It really will not significantly impact his training. The OP is a 46 year old amateur rower. He doesn't have the olympics next week. He is erging. Go ahead and train as usual. Perhaps you won't be as fast or may tire easier at a given heart rate, but no reason to modify your training. 1-2 weeks and...