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I'm a new rower too, so this might be presumptuous. But I've been asking the same questions, and haven't seen this spelled out quite this way in all the damper threads I've read. I started asking myself "Why can I not get a workout at the damper settings and stroke rates everyone recommends". Oh su...

Hi ladies - somehow the Women’s Forum seems like a “safer” place for me to post. :D I bought my C2 in 2016 and have been relatively sporadic in my rowing - some months of being super regular, and then other periods of hardly rowing at all. Over the last several months, I am back on the case and am ...

Hello, I’m a rower in my junior year, my 2k is a 7:25 and I’m 135 pounds and 6ft. If I were to get up to 160. Would that affect my 2k? You can,t put a number on it, but if you simply grow and get more lean mass you will be a lot faster. Eat, train and sleep well. Don,t worry about where you are gon...

hello friends, if i add to my home gym a skierg. i have concept2 rower already. will it be enought to give up gym membership for weightlifting with dumbbells and machines. ot concept 2 machines are only for condition? thanks No it won,t, you can do powersessions on c2 machines, row, ski or bike, th...

I use a skierg, it indeed is much more upperbody oriented, although we do stand up and squat, but the main drivers are the muscle in the trunk and arms and not the legs spine. There are few trainingplans for the skierg specific, some users offer, not for free, plans. I do think you can use plans for...

Personally I find 8 x 500m not worthwhile as there's too many breaks and ot doesn't really get close to the pain you'll inevitably find in the last 500m. 4 x 1k r4 is a better indicator imo Funny, agree about the 4x1, but no pain during 500 reps? Hahaha, it's all relative! 500s are horrific but I f...

Dangerscouse wrote: ↑

January 19th, 2020, 4:58 am

Personally I find 8 x 500m not worthwhile as there's too many breaks and ot doesn't really get close to the pain you'll inevitably find in the last 500m.

4 x 1k r4 is a better indicator imo

Funny, agree about the 4x1, but no pain during 500 reps?

As for your second comment, I completely agree. I'd say plateau rather than stall though - that suggests there may be opportunities to improve somehow though. I remember reading once that anecdotally, any athlete new to a particular sport has around 6 years of improvement to look forward to. This i...

Keith ofcourse you should go for better, but you know that won,t be 10 seconds. Say you would get 4, that would already be great. Pb at all would already feel good. Point I try to make, once you are well trained, say after 3/4 years serious training, progress will be limited. An olympic athlete who ...

The key is, if you go faster, it that really progression or is it more effort. It depends on how you measure and being aware of the training intensity being used. Many people use pace, others use HR, perceived effort or combinations thereof. Personally, I junked HR years ago and work entirely off p...

The key is, if you go faster, it that really progression or is it more effort. After a while everybody will stall, and once well trained there is hardly any progress. Olympic athletes not seldom don,t progress at all over 4 years or maybe a fraction. And like NavH. says, after a certain age, its not...

You can set your feet lower, gives you a bit more room, but in the end you know the solution! Use that as an incentive, you got started, now keep going and increese the meters you make.
And rowing alone is not enough... clean up your diet!

Not me, not r20 either in my book, but still tought let share it with you people

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1FBYNK9QY

Follow up video. I lowered my feet position 2 holes. What a difference. Definitely helps with rotating hips forward and generating power with the legs. I've done 2 thirty minute rows, 1 2000m, and a 5000m in the last week. And also a bunch of 5-10 minutes working on form. Working on stretching my h...

Just to avoid confusion re: the heels comment, you will probably hear some advice to keep your heel flat the whole time (I know Dark Horse do advise this) but unless you've got really flexible ankles, which is really unlikely, it's going to limit your stroke and only make it more difficult and poss...