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Does anyone have direct personal experience doing WP L4 sessions on the water in the kind of volume/distance that one would do on the erg ? Patrick, I've tried to do just that this year. If you accept that the OTW splits will be a lot more variable than OTE and that you'll have to turn the boat aro...

On long rows I used to watch the extended DVD of "the Lord of the Rings". Just remember to put the subtitles on; otherwise it's impossible to follow the conversations. For intervals: no time to look at another screen than the PM.

Great job at rowing! If you want to be a competitive coxwain, the best favor you can do your rowers is to learn to row a 1x (and get them to do it too BTW :roll: ). To know what it feels like when the boat runs and what to do about it, is a great skill to have. About the idiots who laugh at your tim...

From a rower's perspective: if possible, instill confidence since this will help people relax while pulling hard and that's key to higher speed. Phrases like: "You're walking", "You can do this alll day" (in Head pieces), "You can do more than you think" or just "Oh, yeah" (on a particularly nice st...

A good ratio and timed finishes will set the boat. I always try to get people to stop working on handle height for set since in a majority of cases this just creates tension and that's the #1 enemy when it comes to balance. In a very good crew, ratio comes from quickly picking up the pressure at the...

Pour a little lemon juice in water (or bite into a lemon) and drink before erging. It helps a lot with the "dry-mouth" feeling. Anything with sugar (incl sports drinks) will make you feel more thirsty.

This thread is to discuss strategies for optimal pacing, both on the erg and on the water. For me optimal pacing is sliightly negative split and the goal is to do this while racing as well as in training. So far, on the erg it usually works but on the water is very tricky. However, I've recently bec...

I need no more convincing; have experienced enough difference on the erg. Thanks Mike; you changed my life! Two things that still bug me and I'd like some other's ideas on: 1. How to do this on the water? It's a lot more difficult; especially without a Speedcoach. I've tried using rates but mostly e...

Rich, I think that I have the same feeling; could not bring myself over the last few weeks to sit down on an erg for more than 30 min. For me the solution turned out to be going outside: today I went for a run instead of erging and got my long-overdue energy booster. Personally I can't wait to get b...

Been buried at work the last week and have had no chance to erg, let alone post. So a little mustard after supper here (Dutch expression). I did not plan well at Crash-B. Spent all my time before the race, as usual, stressing about it and all my time after the race (after scraping myself off the flo...

4x250m R3 today & race wu. Purposefully did what I think should be enough for the actual race (about 15' incl some hard pieces) but still felt that it wasn't enough so I will add another 5' if I can find the wu erg time. 250m times 1:46.9, 1:45.3, 1:44.0, 1:42.0. It was actually a bit uncontrolled o...

2x20' easy UT1 today: 2:12+ Just enough to get the engine running (and the calories burning). Engine took a while to get started but that was probably because I've been secretly converting most of my morning rows to evenings lately and am no longer used to it. Just 2 more sessions planned for the re...

If he's small, obnoxious and has a penetrating voice, can I borrow your cox too? Interesting discussion about fatigue. I've been having the same experience, also in reverse: fast pieces are a lot easier after not training for a few days. Would be interesting to know whether the recovery rate of this...

Spent most of my non-working hours over the last few days in the car in either traffic jams or trying to teach it how to ice-skate so no erging. :( Great job on the 2k Deborah. You've got some courage less than a week after that race to do another 2k and pull off a sub 7:20. Tom, 7777 AND a 1k? Soun...

Tough going Deborah but good to see your spirit. You've done some amazing training and you will do great in Boston no matter what.

Back felt stiff during warm-up today so I abandoned my plan for the day and did a 30' recovery row. Nice and easy at 18 spm 2:16. Just a little boring...