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If the two exercises were producing the same power, HR would be comparable. This is simply not true. If you grab a person at random and ask them to produce a given wattage on the erg and the bike, their HRs will almost assuredly not be equal. For starters, focusing on HR is a bit foolish because it...

There's no such thing as "easier" or "harder" - they are two different exercises. Of course cycling is going to elicit a lower HR than rowing - it's a seated exercise with only leg involvement. Rowing uses many more muscles. That doesn't make it any easier or harder. You can push to exhaustion on ei...

Couple quick points: That formula you're trying to use for HR is useless on an individual level. Use your properly measured HRmax and HRresting to find your HRreserve and take a percentage based on the training zone you want to be in. Others have alluded to it, but weight loss is achieved through di...

I check this forum every so often and I'm regularly surprised at how complicated people want to make their training. As someone who has been in the sport for 10+ years and has watched lots of videos, follows lots of athletes on social media, and knows/trains alongside some fairly high level athletes...

"Can someone explain to me whether/why it matters that during recovery, you put your arms away first, then swing the core, and then bend knees, i.e., the exact opposite of the drive?"

That is exactly what my response answered. Don't be so dense.

Volume. Lots of volume. There is no magic to improvement.

You guys/gals are really overthinking what is a very simple concept. I challenge you to row above 30 spm with any other type of sequencing. If you don't get the hands and body over before breaking the knees, then you MUST lift the arms over your knees otherwise you'll slam into them. Then you have t...

2. cyclists measure FTP which is roughly aerobic wattage (1 hour power wattage). Most sources agree that raising FTP is very hard, that 50 watts per year is a max, with lower changes as you get more highly trained. But you can substantially raise FTP (say 225 watts to 300 watts) it just takes years...

The rest doesn't matter all that much. 8x500m with 1' rest is probably the closest to 2k pace, but doing 2' rest will allow you to push a little harder. Ditto for 3' rest. Most people do either 1 or 2 mins. 5 minutes is far too long for this particular workout, though

Is there a particular reason you are adding 500m per week starting at 3k? You can easily move from 3k to distances like 8-10k in a week or two. Doing 500m more every week is unnecessarily slow and inefficient. You're just wasting time making little to no improvement - a 3k row will lead to almost ze...

Very difficult to say if this is an achievable goal for you or not. Even at sub 6:10, at your size you'd probably need to eventually be closer to sub 6:00 t0 have a chance at a top boat somewhere like Harvard. Anyway, what you do have going for you is your size: 6'6 gives you a lot of leverage that ...

Hard to put an exact number on it but probably around 20-40 watts less on the C2 bike. I think part of it is the difference between standard pedals (with cages) vs clipless pedals on my personal bike and the extra power on the upswing of each pedal cycle. The rest I think is just down to different m...

Seems like you may have already made up your mind, but since this is recent I'll add my 0.02 cents. I got into cycling last year and bought a road bike as well as a smart trainer (Wahoo). I also have a C2 ergbike. I can confidently say the feel is completely different and the watts are totally diffe...

Not looking to get into the weeds of this argument but as a data point of n=1, my watts on the erg are higher than my watts on the C2 bike. However, on my smart trainer, my watts on the bike are higher. The C2 bike watts are IMO not 1:1 to non-C2 bike watts. For one, you lose power by not having cli...

If done correctly, the rowing motion more than works out the legs. If someone isn't "feeling it," then they are either not pulling hard enough, not using proper technique, or are expecting some sort of feeling that the erg just isn't going to give them. Also, weight is lost via diet, not exercise. Y...