Concept2 Forum

There are plenty of results on line from worlds, and soon from the olympics. You can see the boat types you're interested in. The erg coefficients it's said were designed to correlate with the 4-. Of course afloat we go slow if possible, so you'll have to look for tight races. If you really want to...

Achilles, That entirely depends on where you go to school. It is likely hopeless at a top rowing school that recruits international athletes with Junior world team experience. Other schools take almost everyone who is interested (I started rowing in college as a 132 lbs lightweight--the coach didn't...

Strongly second Tinus's comments. You can do fast hands or slow hands and have it work well. There is very little weight in your hands and arms, and any shift in weight by moving the hands is mostly counterbalanced by the oars moving in the opposite direction. The speed of the hands only matters as ...

you will warm up some as you go. Ideally you should be warm well before the first 500 meters, no? Ideally you are warm before zero meters, but very few people get a complete warm up. I'm only suggesting going very slightly slower for the first 6 minutes. Doing what I suggested puts one 3 seconds do...

Personally if I was going for 1:59 average for an 8K, I'd do 500m at 2:01, 500m at 2:00, then the next 5k at 1:59, and evaluate whether to increase or decrease the past from there. You'll be a few seconds down but you will have plenty of time to make it up and it is better to be conservative and you...

gizzardman wrote:That's one thing that i can't work out what to do - ERG before or after workout? I suppose either way has it's upsides/downsides.

Do what ever is most important for your goals first.

this chart is a more sophisticated analysis then the simple weight formula from concept II: http://biorow.com/RBN_en_2007_files/App2007RowBiomNews08.pdf But sophisticated doesn't necessarily mean significantly more accurate, or more accurate at all in any individual case. As Armodo said, don't put t...

That is an unanswerable question. It depends on so many factors including rowing style and personal preference and what conditions you are rowing in. The best boat may vary depending on wind, waves and straightness of the course. Any of the top quality boats will be more then adequate provided it fi...

You will get a lot of helpful advice if you ask about college rowing at RowingIllustrated.com/boards. Look through some of the old threads of do a search.

I know a women who was about 5'2" or so and a lightweight. She was told she was too small to row in the 8+ as a college freshman but they let her row a single. She was not particularly talented, but worked really hard and put a lot of focus on technique. She was the only one in her school to medal a...

..... I read a lot in this forum that erging on the Model D destroys balance, the feel for OTW rowing, is bad for the back etc. Well, it can't be that bad since the German eight has been undefeated in the last 34 runs... I think what people really mean is that the erg is more stressful on the back ...

You are asking in the wrong place. See here for instance:

http://rowingillustrated.com/boards/vie ... f=8&t=5281

Thought this was a really sweet article:

http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/06/ ... rld_226368

4X2000m / 7min rest comes out to within a half second for me. Start 1 second slower and bring it up by 1 second half way through if you feel good, and more at the end if you can. This will be more accurate then doing a 2K or 1250m peice. 1250m pace +8 is much more reasonable than +5. A general rule ...

If you were training seriously, one rule of thumb is that it takes three times longer then the layoff to get back. (your results may vary of course) You just need to recognize it takes a long time and to build slowly and not be too ambitious. But you already knew that. Just be realistic and have a l...