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If I'm reading your post correctly it sounds like you got the rower a cpl of months ago, stopped cycling and used the rower for a mix of intervals and 10Ks, and then did one ride on your bike and were surprised by how bad it felt? I think you need to give it more than one ride. It's probably a speci...

5k last December was 18:07. Cut some off of that today. Definitely went in the coffin during that last 1000m! 17:52.2 5,000m 1:47.2 284 1277 30 148 3:34.6 1,000m 1:47.3 283 1275 30 144 3:34.7 2,000m 1:47.3 283 1273 30 149 3:34.7 3,000m 1:47.3 283 1273 30 149 3:34.6 4,000m 1:47.3 283 1275 30 150 3:3...

Good point Max, I would also expect that, stronger legs but same lower back strength should result in higher injury risk. If you regularly do sprint training you propably build up back strength too when legs get slowly stronger week by week, but doing sprints only infrequent sounds risky under thes...

I'm no physiologist, but the study seemed not unreasonable to me. The subjects did not usually train strength so the quite marked increases in 1RM and RFD seemed believable. Is it correct to extrapolate from the 5% increase in CE to a 5% improvement in speed? I think that's possibly unwarranted, an...

IMO when it comes to improving performance at mainly aerobic events rather than a more holistic "I feel better" benefit (not necessarily saing those two things are mutually exclusive) most people who do weight training are getting v little benefit . ... Same with biking - mainly a TTer with events ...

I think the OP has to narrow down what it is they want to achieve by intoducing weights or body weight exercises. Need to give some thought as to how you will know what you are doing (and choose a regime specifically for say 6 weeks or so to test it) is working. You have to select an approach and th...

Been Pfizered twice, second one was yesterday. First one I just got arm pain for 1-2 days from the needle trauma, same so far with the second jab. Nothing else. I did no weights/ergo the day after each jab but trained right up to the jab.

I go thru phases with sport...years ago it was all mountain biking (cross country and downhill), then it was bike time trialling with a smattering of running and swimming culminating in a half Iron, then life happened, then I found the erg (I don't post much now but I was posting alot 2016-2018 ish)...

want to get down to 82kg maintaining muscle. Keep protein high esp around your workouts and start off with a low volume of erging and build up to multiple sessions of 5K/30mins absolute max duration if body composition is heading in the right direction. You will lose some muscle mass no doubt but f...

In general, we could only speak of “relative” weak distance if a population would do the exact same training and then see how that would translate to the different distances. Of course this will never be possible in practise. And there is the secondary aspect that we, as athletes, are not the same ...

Your 10K time stands out IMO. I've never been that fast and yet have done 6:4x multiple times at more like 160lbs. Have you thought of doing a 500m and 1K effort to get a more complete view of your power profile? For someone who isn't a total diesel or sprinter I'd say your 2K and 5K are not THAT fa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/well/move/exercise-hiit.html?smid=url-share "Too Much High-Intensity Exercise May Be Bad for Your Health" A new study hints that excessive HIIT may harm your mitochondria, the energy generators found in every cell of your body. Thanks for the study - always intere...

ERGO: 5K inc 4x1K@1:49.8 (my cardio is dire atm but I just wanted to see some averages sub 1:50!!)
WEIGHTS: Push Session - Overheadpress, dbInclinePress, SkullCrushers, SideLaterals

better half? So she's faster than you on the erg?

@ian - nice work. 6:19 at 89kg is strong.