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1. You won't lose weight by erging or rowing alone. 2. Your diet is about 70% of your weight loss endeavor, unless you're erging marathons daily. 3. While ANY distance is beneficial, you will achieve your goals more easily by varying intensity for pieces 1km - 10km. HIIT is another popular idea. But...

Erg a 4x2k at your normal 2k + 5 pace and you won't need this contrivance.

Rowing, unlike cycling, does not require you to be outside and exposed to the elements (unless you're on the water). "Elite athletes" do a TON of UT1 and UT2 work, <=1hr 1x or 2x per day, with intervals and sprints mixed in a couple times per week. The idea is to incrementally notch your fitness up ...

so far had a couple of outings Maybe you or your boatman can check gate heights and angles. Do you see blades diving or washing out? Do you all scull left over right? Quad and double racing shells are usually stable, but hardly the first choice for beginners . I respectfully disagree with you. As O...

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A couple additional thoughts: These problems are referred to as an "unset boat" and plague all rowing athletes, both junior and olympian alike, though they're much less common at the Olympic level. Since you're in uncoxed boats, you're not getting feedback on your technique. You can take the opportu...

I just row a lot. I eat responsibly, prioritizing protein and complex carbs over fats and simple carbs. I've lost 25# this year just from rowing every day. I don't follow a diet, just be responsible for yourself and make good choices. If you need the structure of a "diet" to do that, good on you.. b...

You had outings in team boats and have had experiences with the boat dumping to the sides.. 1. This is extremely common in novice team boats. 2. Fix it by working on handle heights with your boatmates 3. Further improve it by ensuring each athlete has equal load on the footplates (meaning you're pus...

Can’t say much, only that some people are sooner fully grown. And, important, sport is very much about talent, no training can compensate talent. 2 people can work just as hard, but get very different results. While I do agree with the body composition argument for natural plateaus in sport and fit...

There are a LOT of muscles recruited into rowing that must acclimate to this new load before you should think about what you can do differently in order to add speed.. Resist the temptation to listen to too many experts. You're new to the sport, do what feels right for you right now and once you hav...

I see you posted this in May, 2021 (many months ago) Apart from training and getting more efficient, you need to do a few things you're probably not doing: First... Decide if you REALLY WANT TO DO THIS. If you're trying to get a college scholarship through rowing. I don't care what you believe in li...

For erging advice, I look how the national teams train. There is no need to add weight to yourself. Pull harder, push your legs down faster. That's how you go faster. Crossfit has a very sour taste in my mind for its many adherents having lack luster form and control, in spite of their claims of bei...

The spacer thing is a bit more of a convenience thing that a lot of rowers do to save their knuckles, blade depth at the catch is 100% technique, one oar lock being higher than the other is going to do nothing for boat speed. Generally, if you're dipping your left hand deeper, you're concentrating t...

What are you stats? If you're a HW Man, 125-135 drag factor is recommended (5-6 1/2 dampener), lightweights (<160lb for men) and women are best served between 115 and 125 (roughly 4.5 to 5.5 dampener) 1:44 is a 6:56 2k time if you can carry it that far, that is pretty respectable (I'm only a little ...

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That's all you'll need for a while. You're now a masters rower (>=21 years of age).

I do recommend getting on the water at some point also. Rowing in a boat makes all the technique critiques on the erg make sense.