Concept2 Forum

Even though I have already told him today at work I have to congratulate sockman (Ray) on his awesome 10k PR by a HUGE margin of 44 seconds!!! He has been doing the training schedule I made for him for about 4 weeks and just as expected after the first two weeks he started seeing improvements. The m...

GREAT JOB! Every PR is worth bragging about, so long as you are proud of it. You dont have to be pulling world class times to be proud of it. You have been working hard for the past three weeks and in just 3 weeks you got a PR and I can guarentee you in just a few more weeks you will be able to pull...

Well I dont agree with you completely dadams; I just re-read your response. It appears, and I may be wrong, that you are saying a rower weighing 150lbs pulling a 6:31 2k would not move a boat faster than a rower weighing 198lbs pulling a 6:26 2k (kept the times close for sake of arguement). If this ...

My point exactly dadams! Never cared for weight adjusted never will. As I believe Rogus said lets just race any height, weight, age, or sex and may the best person win by raw time not weight adjusted.<br><br>I do think Concept2 may have a too generous weight adjustment calculation, because my 5k PR ...

I have just found the weight adjustment formula on the C2 website; provided below just in case you want to see it, and here are my thoughts and of course I am interested what other rower/ergers think. I guess only rower/ergers really apply to the discussion but all replys are interesting!<br><br>Eve...

As everyone else has already stated excercise is supposed to lower your resting heart rate. This is done by increasing your heart's <u><b>stroke volume</b></u>; the amount of blood pumped from your left venticle during each beat. Ideally that is the only increase you will get when it comes to your r...