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Nice work Ray! I know I congratulated you on the Sub7 group, but now reading this helps me understand your progression better. That is an outstanding milestone!

I'm more in the camp of Why? than how. I don't see a need to row as low as r16, if that was done over a significant period of time. Rowers often do not weaken the stroke, so the only way to make it “easy” is lowering the rate. This was relax pace for him. Seen him do r14 stuff even. Took me years t...

Been thinking about this a lot lately. Lived in Ohio before where rain (and humidity) made it nearly impossible to train outside. Also didn't have a great location for the erg there. Now I have a patio that looks out to a beautiful green valley in AZ up near the mountains (and at a mountain range to...

I've been working back from a Thoracic tweak for five or six months. First time that I wasn't able to quickly (within days or weeks) get it back in order. It still bothers me now but I've been able to do hardish intervals again and I'm gradually getting back to form, which isn't anything special to ...

30 minutes on the rower @ 19 SPM, HR capped at 75% of Max and 30 minutes on the AirDyne Pro Bike. Slowly coming back on times from the mid back injury/pain. Not sure if it was really an injury or if it was just something that was hurt and the rower triggered it. Anyway, my paces are extremely slow ...

30 minutes on the rower @ 19 SPM, HR capped at 75% of Max and 30 minutes on the AirDyne Pro Bike. Slowly coming back on times from the mid back injury/pain. Not sure if it was really an injury or if it was just something that was hurt and the rower triggered it. Anyway, my paces are extremely slow r...

Sorry don't know how to upload the splits or really understand negative splits :? Think I just went off too fast, the first 500m I was going at 1.53 and thought I was going too smash 8.00, had slowed to 1.56 at 1000m, after 1500m I thought I was going to have a heart attack and had slowed to 2.18. ...

Before Bret Contrares became the Butt Guru for all females that know anything about bodybuilding, he put out some great information on Kettlebell Swings. If you look for his article around 2012 and 2013, great stuff. He ended up moving toward other things before he wrote the now famous book, Strong ...

I started back at fitness at 41 or 42 at my largest. I had just blew out my knee completely and was told I might need a knee replacement. I was around 255 or 260 and likely around 50% body fat. Seriously depressed too. Fast forward to today and I'm 188 (at 54, turning 55 soon), 18% body fat, and asi...

Working hard again these days but I'm really slow currently, even for me. Coming back at 54 from back injury is hard work! When I started rowing a few years back, I could hit a 7:50 and worked my tail off to get to 7:11. I suppose all that progress is gone, but I'm slowly getting it back. Did 3 X 8 ...

Always funny to laugh at others... But here one the other way around, last year in my gym they held a 500m comp. One of the trainers, a 60m discustrower, who never touches the rower, pulled a 1.17 rate 32. Big guy, but no giant. They did the same thing in my gym around five years ago and similar th...

When I row in the isolation of my garage, I have my ipod on shuffle and count through about 10 songs before I check the PM to see how far I've gone on a steady state 10K. I also have a couple of mirrors in the garage gym so I can check my form from time to time...otherwise going by feel in UT 2 or ...

So if I get to around 148 or so, 150 definitely, slow it down. Well, that is not exactly how the HR drift approach works. If you get more than 5% drift, you should start lower the next time. The aim is to be able to hold a constant intensity (meaning constant pace or power) through the full session...

Thanks Allan, that helps. I started out yesterday around 135 BPM after W/U, then slowly drifted up to around 150 and got off the rower at 45 minutes and went to the Assault Bike, which I have an easier time with keeping my HR lower. That's around what I was thinking. Once I'm drifting off above 145 ...

Interesting and timely thread for me. I seemed to have turned the corner on my Thoracic pain. If I constantly do PT/Yoga, I've figured out that I can tolerate rowing again without significant pain or any pain. I just hate yoga. :roll: Small price to pay. Anyway, I've just got a HRM and I'm back doin...