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1. Record all your workouts in a journal. 2. Work to improve your splits on every single workout...you will not always get faster but let bad days plan themselves, your goal is to get faster. Have 10-15 workouts that you repeat on a two to four week cycle to ensure you are improving. 3. Practice the...

full, full, full, full, full. You won't like it but it is the most powerful start. You should be able to hit race pace by stroke three. By stroke 5 your ave split should be well under your target split. Then just settle into race pace. A racing start on the water is different than on an erg. On the ...

Yeah those goals are very doable. A couple pieces of advise... 1. Get a training plan and stick to it. Here is a good simple one that is put out by Concept2. http://www.concept2.co.uk/training/interactive.php Concept2 Rowing Machines | Interactive 2,000m Programme 2. Record, record, record. Keep tra...

Many athletes hit their max heart rate all the time. Consider all those racers, whether runners, rowers, etc. They should be hitting max heart rate at some point in their race. This goes for people of different ages as well. Is max heart rate dangerous...well sort of. I have read about this and ther...

male 26yr. Hard to get a resting...drink too much coffee, but have seen 47-48. Max running a year ago was 214 and 206 erging.

I hate the regular C2 seat as well. It is made to look appealing to fat people in gyms, not for people who actually spend time on the machine suffering away. I have no bum and the flat seat hurts and gives me bruises! A much cheaper solution is to buy a $1 foam seat pad. They are very nice and you c...

Back to the original question. Can a 6ft guy pull a 6min 2k? The answer is yes. His name is Jason Read. Rowed the bow seat in the US eight in 2004. He is about 6ft, 185lbs. Pulled 5:59 and change when I talked to Teti about it. As Teti said, "Jason was packing some serious heat at 185lbs and sub six...

It is easier to figure out how fast a cyclist would be on an ergometer than the other way around. Part of the reason it takes so long for even talented guys like Lance and many other Tour cyclists and marathon runners to become successful is that they are working on physiological adaptations that ta...

GeorgeD-When developing Lance's motor program relating to rowing and more specifically to him rowing at 2k pace it would be impossible to not train his energy systems. It takes energy to erg. To develop a good motor program that will work effectively you must training in situations that are similar ...

Here is a thought. rowing at 100 watts equals a 2:31.8 split rowing at 200 watts equals a 2:00.5 split rowing at 300 watts euals a 1:45.3 split Now if you told me how many watts you averaged over 2k, would that tell me how fast you did the piece...well in fact no. Here is why. Lets say I am going to...

Lance's 2k score can be estimated fairly well using this formula. "Klusiewicz, A. Faff, J. Title Indirect methods of estimating maximal oxygen uptake on the rowing ergometer. male (VO2 = 1.1328+0.0113W) and female (VO2 = 0.6652+0.0128W) athletes. VO2max (1.min-1) in the males = 1.682+0.0097 WM; VO2m...