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sammac112 wrote: last summer, the day after a regatta, our boats still had to be rigged so our coach decided to have us erg.

...and the boats still had to be rigged? If you don't rig them, who does?

IMHO, if you want to adjust accurately for height, weight and a myriad of other factors, just put everyone on the water in a 1x and see who gets from the starting gate to the finish line the fastest time. Oh no, that doesn't work, we forgot to make adjustments for technique and level of experience :...

you could possibly add in this new workout that i have been doing. What you do is after warming up you set the damper to 10 and do 10 second sprints all out max rate. then you rest for a minute and do another one repeating this till you have done 10-15 of this but you could get by with as little as...

What is an SB?

It could be that it doesn't get in the way of your training now, but your coach might be concerned about what could happen to your training if things don't work out....I'm sure he disapproves only because he has your best interests at heart.