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So, if you've never used lactate profile or HR, how can you say it's not beneficial when training on the erg? You know, I don't post nearly as often as some people but I have been posting here for 25 years, and my history is available. On the erg I have won championships across five age groups from...

nick rockliff wrote: ↑

February 27th, 2025, 9:42 am

Really? I used blood lactate profile to set my training zones over a six year period. Worked quite well for me.

Is that a strong argument? I've never used lactate (or HR) to set my training zones, and it's worked quite well for me. Checkmate!

Has anyone got any thoughts on which of the above is more beneficial when training on the erg. Neither is beneficial when training on the erg. They only loosely correlate with performance, and change quicker than you might think during the training process and not necessarily in the direction you m...

My plan is to steadily ramp things up instead of my historical approach of training like mad and burning out early - thus the dedicated use of the WP. That sounds like a good plan. Each month will start with a 2K test to set the pace for that month's intervals. If you truly intend to follow the Wol...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. These times are still great going as you well know Mike. Congrats on the Gold. Will be interested to follow how you get on over the next few years. We’ll see. Every time I race, I tell myself “that’s it – no more”. I’ll always keep training and trying to work har...

I competed in the 2025 US Rowing Indoor Championship at the Atlanta venue. It has been a challenge to find indoor competitions in the post-COVID world. I hadn’t raced in six years, but my training had been fairly promising and my volume has been consistently higher than it has for years, so I decide...

I have done a bunch of full Ironman distance triathlons, 24 hour bike races, and other endurance stuff. Not very fast mind you, but none of it seems as brutally painful as an all out 2k for me. I did a 2K erg race the day before I ran my first marathon. The amount of pain was pretty much the same f...

These are surprisingly difficult to track down - none of the links in archived forum threads work for me. I eventually found them buried in the website of a UK rowing club, but they may have been updated since then. Mike Caviston - if you see this, are you willing to share them again here, please? ...

I'm intrigued by the Wolverine Plan, and after a lot more googling than I thought it would need, have found the original plan, and believe that I understand how to follow it. I'll just repost this for future reference: There is an awful lot of information about the Wolverine Plan that is easily acc...

As long as we’re sharing personal experience, results, and opinions... My diet hasn’t changed significantly during the last 40 years. At least 60% of total calories from carbohydrates (typically more than 500g CHO per day), primarily complex carbs from whole grains, cereals, pasta, breads, and beans...

I remain surprised that so many people report taking longer to recover as they get older. I’ve found the opposite to be true, and regularly do 2-3 activities per day in sessions that are never easy. The other side of the coin is I can’t work at the same intensities as when I was younger (currently 6...

Increasing the pace of something is to speed it up, not slow it down. If the something is expressed as min:sec/500m, then if you decrease from 2:08 to 2:03 you will go faster. But that's a silly thing to argue about, so whatever. To take it to extremes, I could increase the recovery to an hour, and...

"Increase pace" means going slower, so you should decrease the pace (but increase the speed). Don't reduce the recovery. In fact, increase the recovery if that's what it takes to go faster.

Without wanting to derail this thread, did you modify your methodology because of age related factors or balancing multiple disciplines? And what kind of adjustments did you make? So far I haven’t factored age into my training methodology (at least not consciously), but balancing multiple disciplin...

VO2 max can’t be estimated very reliably or accurately, as has been discussed. But even knowing one’s true VO2 max (measured directly in an exercise physiology lab) doesn’t provide much useful information regarding performance potential. Yes, there is a general distinction in VO2 max among untrained...