Concept2 Forum

Thanks for the exercises, John. I'll give them a shot.

Your forearms getting tired so quickly makes it seem like you are gripping the handle too hard. You should try to relax more. I would suggest an experiment where you row legs only for a bit. Hold the arms outstretched and use them in like a cable. You shouldn't be expending much effort in your fore...

I've finally been cleared to start exercising after about a year's worth of not being able to do much other than sit on a stationary bike (long story short, there was a three month period in that year where I started erging again, but I was hit by a car while riding my bike, and that put an end to t...

I love slides, but the biggest problem with using them often is that testing everywhere I've seen is done on stationary ergs, and even the psychological disadvantage of moving from slides to stationary rowing messes with me when I test. Just as a curiosity, does anyone out there row for a club where...

Not necessarily on-topic, but a coach in Pittsburgh has this on his blog about 2k's: http://launchexhaust.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-pull-2k-test.html What I end up doing is something like an OTW start, but since I'm shorter tha most of the guys on the team, it ends up being something like 1/4, 3/4...

Hi Jamie, Listening to music for big pieces like 2k tests is probably a newer concept to me than it should be. So, I like to change up what I listen to every time. Usually, there's some combination of the following: (by Linkin Park) Papercut One Step Closer Crawling Bleed It Out What I've Done (by ...

Did anybody see the commercial for OSU during halftime of the BCS Championship game? Was that Fritz Hagerman at the end of it? I think he works at or went to OSU. Sorry, totally random, I know. It just piqued my curiosity.