Concept2 Forum

I'm three months into therapy for Hepatitis C, which involves 6 x 200mg pills a day of ribavirin and a weekly 180ul shot of pegalyted interferon alfa. It has all kinds of pretty strong side-effects, one of which is fatigue. I've kept up my rowing pretty well though I added a rest day each week, on o...

I row at 5:30AM for an hour or a little more, which I couldn't do unless I owned the rower. I went from 237 in Feb 2008 to 172 on Sept 1, 2008. Actually I overshot my goal and went to 167 on a vegan regimen, but I'm now in the mid 170's which is where I want to be. Fresh fruits and vegetables + rowe...

Paul, hello. I'm at 5'11" and 175 pounds, 58 years old. I went on a vegan diet (following Joel Furhman MD, "Eat to Live") and found my weight easily fell to 167 and I suppose would have drifted down a bit more if I had continued. After six weeks I reintroduced animal products to about 10% of total c...

I looked over Dr Izumi Tabata's publications and read a few of the more interesting abstracts and two off the full-text articles I could access through the library at work. You can get a pretty good overview by searching TABATA, IZUMI in Google Scholar. Here is a typical sample: "Effects of moderate...

My impression was that Tabata intervals-- that particular variant of HIIT-- burned more fat (supposedly) than steady state. In the original experiment the HIIT group and the steady state group lost ~the same amount of weight, but the Tabata interval group reduced body fat more and muscle mass less. ...

In April I reported my weight at 209, down from 237 in January. Now it's at 170, and pretty stable. I row about 65 minutes every morning, and play racquetball or do weights several times a week. My diet is mainly fruit and veg, with animal products limited to 10% of total calories. My doc said my bl...

Before getting back on the erg, my cholesterol was borderline and they were talking Lipitor...

Now, after rowing around 65-70 minutes a day and making the obvious dietary adjustments...

Total cholesterol 134
LDL 84
HDL 40

My doc called my blood work 'pristine' and 'textbook' ~!

Aw shucks.

There is a website The Daily Plate which has free nutrition tracking, as well as a way to record exercise with calories burned and so forth. It has various graphing features also. USDA has a similar system but it is not so user-friendly as TDP. The Daily Plate has some annoying aspects -- annoying t...

Up above (in mid-April) I was at 209. Now at 197. So 40 pounds altogether since mid-Jan. Rowing about 13000 a day now, trying to stay on page two of the cumulative rankings. Blood test was EXCELLENT: 140 total chloresterol, LDL 83, HDL 40, Triglycerides 86. No angina thus far. So, good. I'm keeping ...

I get up at 5AM, so I should be erging by 5:45 at the latest and done before 7AM. That way I can feel virtuous all day, and just mess around with free weights in the evening. Weight lifters have long believed that the greatest weight control benefit from cardio work is obtained by an AM workout on a...

Well Bob, here's my thing: if you're at a public gym, why wouldn't you just go to the actual curl machine or preacher bench to do curls, instead of taking up time on a rower shared by the other members? Know what I mean? I mean...sure...people can do what they please I suppose, they pay their member...

*sigh* ... okay, more pet peeves of the public gym. People using the rower as a really bad curl machine. Have you ever seen that?? Guys erging on 10 cuz they're REAL MEN, LOL. And people leaning back at some extreme angle or doing other bizarre antics. Just row, for heaven's sake, it's hard enough w...

I second what iain said about trainers. My gosh, it's just awful to listen to them. In general rowing in a public gym is annoying to me because of the pitiful form of so many people, and the idiotic advice of the trainers. What I've seen in public gyms is an amazing ability to maximize stroke rate w...

Buy one for sure. I lost my Concept2 in a divorce and missed the machine a lot more than anything else... well anyway, I bought a new one right away. Concept2, not wife.

10 km: 6 minute at 24 spm; 16 minutes as pyramid 10 at pressure, ten paddle, 20 at pressure, 10 paddle, etc up to 50 at pressure then back down, 40, 30, 20, 10. Then 15 minute piece changing stroke rate and pressure, then alternate 200 m very hard with 1:30 rest, until reach 10km total