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[quote="John Rupp"]Personally I absolutely hate *** DELETE - SPAM ***. The second thing is that (2) there is a reduction in breathing capacity with age, which is the primary determinant of performance decline with age, in athletic people. My personal feeling is that the condition of one's digestive ...

Have rowed and erged for over 40 years and was asthmatic when I started. Ever since, irrespective of my s.p.m I have inhaled whan I open my shoulders at the catch, exhaled as my hands "round the turn" at the finish, inhale and exhale during the slide forward ready for the next catch. It seems to hel...

Coincidentally my doc told me this week to leave off erging for a few days before going for my annyual psa test. Seems like it's a sensitive little organ that even minor bumps/squeezes can trigger an increase in the antigen levels being released. Jack.

G'day, I find the world rankings are a great help in setting goals over new distances. For a 54 y.o. you rank @16% over 2000,19% over 10,000 and 11% for your 1hr piece. It seems you are better over the longer distance and ought to pull up in the top10% for the HM that is 1:57 - 1:58 avg splits.Give ...

An excellent explantion of Max HR is on the C2 UK Training wesite at: http://www.concept2.co.uk/guide/guide.php?article=physiological_tools. I found it really worthwhile doing this test as the formula 220 minus 59 (my age) gives me a max of 161 but I'm tall (2m) and heavy 114kg and so the formula is...

An excellent explantion of Max HR is on the C2 UK Training wesite at: http://www.concept2.co.uk/guide/guide.php?article=physiological_tools. I found it really worthwhile doing this test as the formula 220 minus 59 (my age) gives me a max of 161 but I'm tall 2M and heavy 114kg and so the formula is a...

I seem to have the same problem (with an Omni Card reader) - at work on XP Pro the Card reader won't connect to Concept2 but at home (on Vista) it works really well - Clever!
Have you resolved the problem yet? I've emailed the help-desk but no answer as yet.
John

Marc, If your back is now OK a guy your size will will dramatically improve your performance by going for more length at lower spm than you are currently using. Your forward body angle needs to be similar to your swing back and you should attain it as your hands swing forward over your knees and bef...