Concept2 Forum

Xeno,<br><br>If you don't mind,<br><br>What spm do you row your 2k at when you choose a damper of 7? If you are rowing long rows as 19-21spm. SPM of 27?<br><br>I'm 6'5" in height and am still trying to figure out what spm's to use for each various distance when trying for PB times. I'm new to rowing...

Hello Heather,<br><br>I'm pretty new to rowing but I've been doing a lot of study and here's what I've gathered on the topic. There are a lot of symptoms of overtraining that someone should be able to point you to a web-link for. Unfortunately I don't have one bookmarked. But a good practice to have...

I'm sure most of you already know this (and its a tad off topic), but as an FYI just in case ...<br><br>I'm 6'5" and was worried that the C2 slide would be a little short based on the guidlines C2 provided. So they sold me a variant model of the C2 with and extra long slide. So I still have several ...

All I know is if I take TAFF + MAD and read it backwards I get ...<br><br>DAM FFAT ?? <br><br>Not saying that means anything though .....<br><br>Not saying it's the subliminal message you use to motivate yourselves to those great times ...<br><br>KMurphy

Finding the right drag factor?<br><br>Is there a good way to tell what the best drag factor for you to race/train at is? Is it the same for both under normal conditions. I realise going very low on drag factor helps with some aspects of technique. But here i'm talking about optimum race pace at vari...

Low potassium is also a cause of cramps and can occur in combination with the afore mentioned dehydration.<br><br>Eating things like banana's are good for this or a good vitamin.<br><br>KMurphy

Xeno<br><br>This row of yours if very inspiring to me as I started a month ago with the thought that rowing would be a great way to improve my CV fitness. Here you just rowed 42K+ at a pace that is currently a tad faster then my PB 500m pace! Though I will never approach your times I can easily see ...

I would factor in how many grams of protein you are getting from your diet and subtract that out. So if you want to try and target 150g/day of protein I would start by seeing how much of that you can get into your normal diet without straining too hard to change your diet habits (unless of course th...

Thanks for the link John it was a very interesting read.<br><br>KMurphy

TheHagueDragon<br><br>I'd love to hear about your results on the 15k assuming you maintain your 1/week running. That is the amount of running I'd like to do to work down to a 6:00 mile run. I don't need or want to run any faster than that.<br><br>gorow9<br><br>Way back when I was in high school I ra...

Just to chim my 2 cents in.<br><br>That physics of erging was comparing a dynamic (real boat) to a static erg. The "on slides" doesn't appear to me to be the same type of dynamic. IE in the article they discussed the fact of the boat and rowers moving in opposite directions. IE both move. If you loo...

I've recently found I am supposed to be able to run a 6:00 mile fitness test for part of my martial arts training. Last month I started up rowing as a way to build up CV fitness for my martial arts and have found that I really enjoy erging and am now planning on trying on-water rowing in the summer ...

Yea Paul that does help some.<br><br>However, I'm still seeing a lot of disagreement on how to achieve the slower than race pace used for longer rows.<br><br>Maybe an example would help.<br><br>Just to make the numbers easy ...<br><br>Lets say someones PB 2k pace is 1:45.0 and they row that at 35spm...

I took Pete to mean that he rows at nearly the same spm as he does his 2K for the longer rows. Then obviously he is pulling less watts for the same pace so training at lower SPI.<br><br>Seems as a newbie to rowing there are two views on this forum...<br><br>View one says that you maintain roughly yo...

Hehe,<br><br>Back on to the original topic.<br><br>None of you have mentioned how your SPI has changed over your rowing career. I can easily see how you can have improved what SPI you can maintain for a long distance, but can you give some examples of how your max SPI has developed over your rowing ...