Concept2 Forum

Do regular deadlifts -- not stiff legged -- and the regular dead lifts will develop your hamstrings. Your problem is that you have not been doing the deadlifts correctly. Maybe you could help out the people at exrx.net and correct their omission of barbell deadlifts from the list of hamstring exerc...

Regular deadlifts definitely develop your hamstrings. They might develop yours, but not mine. The hamstrings are two joint muscles. Do regular deadlifts and these will develop your hamstrings. I've done deadlifts just about once a week so far this year (I just checked my workout journal). It's abou...

Regular deadlifts definitely develop your hamstrings. They might develop yours, but not mine. It's just not uniformly true for everyone. I've been through this with two professional trainers, and it's really not that hard to understand. Maybe you haven't come across someone with this particular sta...

I probably should have worded that better, I worked my quads significantly more than my hamstrings. Lots of erging and biking basically. And not the kind of biking with feet strapped in so you can use your hamstrings a chunk. This is just what my trainer has told me she believes is going on. I have...

Yesterday, after a warmup of stiff legged deadlifts and lighter squats, I did these squat sets (225# = 102.27kg): 12 x 225# 60 x 225# 31 x 225# The 60x225# achieved a fairly longstanding goal. Trying to get that goal is one reason I started rowing on ergs, and I think the rowing helped a lot. I will...

There is lots of training you can do without equipment. It's often called bodyweight training. The one that would be the most useful once you can do it, is the pistol squat. Along with other notorious bodyweight exercises, such as handstand pushups, you can develop quite a bit of muscle. If you have...

Is the relationship between VO2 max and 2k time really that simple? No, there is a whole world of other things that can change the picture. Your lactate processing ability is probably the biggest factor. For example, if you have a guy who has done pure sprint running training and done a program of ...

Training hard can reduce your immune function. But it's not that there is nothing you can do about it. Carbohydrate supplementation can help. Here is a publication based on wildland fire fighting crews; they have activity which is equivalent of very heavy training. http://fire.r6.fws.gov/safety/spri...

Extreme world class rowers will come out at 7.3l which seems right. The concept formula would have Siejkowski at 8.5l which is a bit much, isn't it. Anyone knows VO2 values for Siejkowksi, Waddell and Shurmei? Matthew Pinsent is supposed to be 8.5l, and that is often said to be the highest recorded...

Otherwise you have to row a single stroke every so often to keep the PM3 alive (same holds true for PM2). Same is true for Waterrower. Trouble is I had to get off the erg so I wasn't near enough to pull any strokes. In that distance, I could have made up a few minutes, and even if I didn't, it woul...

I was rowing a marathon at my long distance pace today, and after about 8km I got some tightness in my shoulders but I continued rowing underhand for a few km. It put my shoulders in a much stronger position, and changed the active muscles over which sort of gave me a new lease on fatigue. It had an...

I was 19081m into my marathon today, and I had to take a couple minutes to respond to my four year old. The C2 monitor decided to pack up the workout just as I picked up the handle to resume. I need to be able to tell it to take a longer time before going south on me like this. This is one thing I a...

dougsurf wrote:This is old news to Xeno's fans

Old news to all sorts of people. I'm wondering what the Times was thinking.

In that case, it was a recommendation to someone for increasing his leg drive. Actually in that case the recommendation was so I could stay closer to the footboard when out of the straps. The problem is sort of like too much leg drive in too short a distance. I haven't had a chance to try it yet. I...

You might very well like the effect you get when you raise the rear foot fo the Erg by placing it on some sort of stable platform (you will have to experiment with this at your own risk). This will have a couple interesting effects for you. It will help to keep you on the foot stretchers, add resis...