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<!--QuoteBegin-PaulS+Jan 12 2006, 04:03 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(PaulS @ Jan 12 2006, 04:03 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Usually, as intensity increases, we shift to 2 brea...

My best 21097 was at 2k+18 and I've only done 3, so its probably a softer pb than my 2k, 2k+17.5 gets my vote.

I'm similar to H_20 - I wouldn't be able to come anywhere *close* to a 15k r20 at 2k+15 - my best free rate hour is 2k+14.2, and since the difference between my free rate 30 mins and my 30r20 is slightly over 5 seconds of pace, I'd guess the best I could do would be 2k+19/20.

Ok, a little experimentation at my desk, and I take your point that they do contract a little, but I'm sure you'd agree that there's a big difference between the triceps' involvement in a pull-over (where they can be often actually be the limiting factor - ie you can't use any more weight without ge...

I agree with Remador that your triceps contract isometrically in a pull-over, I don't think that they could (or should anyway) in the drive part of a rowing stroke though. <br /><br />Contracting isometrically implies that they're having to make an effort but don't actually move. I don't think you s...

I think most muscleheads would agree that the vast majority of the skeletal muscle in the body was designed to do one of three things: push your ankles away from your hips, pull your hands away from your shoulders, and pull your hands towards your shoulders - in this context, rowing is missing an up...

He he - I've always liked the last sentence in the description of how you should feel during UT1:<br /><br />'May sweat.'

He he - I think an argument about whether you can go from going in one direction to going in the opposite direction without coming to rest at some point in between would be best taken to another forum . . .<br /><br />But you're basically saying that you pull less hard with your arms at the very end...

I do the vast majority of my rowing strapless 10m/stroke in an effort to learn to be efficient - it occurred to me this lunchtime that at the far end of the stroke the handle hits my belly pretty hard. On the one hand this seems pretty inefficient, but on the other hand, I found it pretty hard not t...

I've combined weights and rowing for years (admittedly not particularly successfully), and personally I've always found it *miles* easier to do the rowing first. I find that even a pretty hard rowing session hardly affects my lifting at all, even squats, deadlifts, powercleans etc which use the prim...

Thanks Paul, <br /><br />So for STM3, a Monday to Friday WORK-REST-REST-REST-WORK format would be ok, since I wouldn't tend to row on Saturday and this would count as a rest after Friday's workout?<br /><br />And you'd say stick to spending most STM training time on STM3 as opposed to STM2 even if y...

Hi Paul<br /><br /><br />1) Would you say there was a large difference in training effect between STM2 and STM3? I ask because I was thinking of carrying on with STM2 for a while longer this time around as I don't seem to get on too well with 'intervals' (took me 12 weeks of STM3 last time to even m...

A question I'm suprised doesn't seem to be asked more often is is there a rough limit to the level of aerobic fitness that can be reached given a certain volume of weekly training? I get the impression that in running this is kind of taken for granted, I seem to remember a rule of thumb that doublin...

15 - 18 breaths per minute!!! Yikes - a 10k pb free-rating for me would probably be at about 26 spm, and certainly the second half would have me breathing about two and a half times a stroke - so about 65 breaths per minute! I think I must have something wrong with my lungs . . .<br /><br />Cran - c...

Aha! I'm glad someone else gets this - I find exactly the same - a limit effort 30 minutes at 20spm gives me a kind of 'drowning' sick feeling of never quite being able to get enough air, completely different from the normal ragged breathing that accompanies a 10m/stroke or free rated pb. I'm almost...