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I am 1.70m and always use to think that the tall guys had it all in rowing.. I use to row and try and extend my overall reach by pulling the bar too high. Then I watch Chris Larkman who is about 1.75ish, destroy a whole group of pro rowers at the 2002 BIRC and what he lacked in height, he made up fo...

I use to always encourage clients to eat smart before exercise and to do so well in advance so as the body can digest what you have eaten.. and I stuck by this for years. BUT, recently I have been changing things for myself whereby I eat as little or no carbs after 6pm and then try really hard to no...

Before I had access to proper recording equipment, this is how I did mine.. READ: http://www.runningforfitness.org/?s=max+heart+rate&search=Search My max HR is 205bpm in 2002. My aerobic rate (70% - 80% of max) is 143bpm – 164bpm. My anaerobic rate (81% - 90% of max) is 165bpm – 185bpm. My VO2 max (...

Some good advice already given... your bum will need to get use to the seat as that can get sore quite quickly. Getting your muscles use to the repetition takes a while but also the mental fitness needed is also important as it is easy to lose the will along the way, so a plan in your head plus some...

The Reading Sports College you were at must have ( edit would have? ) loved to have you on their rowing team. They must have hounded you to join them ! What was that like: getting in those erg session as well as the otw sessions with the crew? Maybe at 42 you were too old to be eligible but it must...

I really got into the whole Heart Rate Training stuff when I was at college doing my sports course. I found at first (when I knew almost nothing about this stuff) my actual heart rates were nothing like the chart stuff.. then I took a leap of faith and did a real max heart rate test on a rower (and ...

EDMAX writes: . . . you change from breathing in through your nose to breathing in through your mouth and out through your nose. . . Seizing control of an autonomic activity I understand; not good to hyperventilate under water! Also productive to optimize timing of inhalation to reinforce core and/...

This is the way I approach breathing while rowing. Breathing is as much a part of your technique as the rowing action is in itself. The way the brain works is like this, if you breathe through your nose, the brain behaves normal, especially if your heart rate is under 100bpm. The moment you start t...

I think that your program has one or two too many intervals for the variable setting. I am hoping that I am wrong. IN any event, I am going to tweak the times, distances and wattages to more reflect my capabilities. move the sprint intervals closer to the back , depending on what I do as a warm up....

it definitely would be difficult to keep track of the data for these bursts/sprints within the session. I don't know if 'custom' would allow you to do that many intervals. I think custom or variable allows for 30 intervals. Since EF didn't mention using that feature, maybe it wasn't available . he ...

@EFMAX , I've deleted your post and Henri's one that prompted it. Please remember that Henri is Dutch and his first language isn't English. Some of his idiomatic ways of saying things don't work for English readers and can appear rude or brusque, he isn't either. Henri is one of the most helpful an...

Your 5k is 15.40 that is 1.34 pace.... Thats 2.5 x a 6.16 2k back to back Every rower who can do that rows sub 6. So you are telling that you never rowed a 2k during that time? Some assumptions are being made here - every rower who can do X can do Y. I never did better than 6.12 (verified) and that...

so it took you about 50 minutes to get this workout in. I don't mind that . question though: did you row during those rest intervals? 30 45 60 seconds or whatever they were. just sort of paddle? or did you start up the next work session from a dead stop? I'm trying to figure out if I want to give t...

Its confusing when you post a training session with paces and not give the 2k going with that. I looked at your stats below. Looking at those I would certainly not call you a sprinter, you best pb s are the 5 and 10k. 100m is also good. 2k is a good bit less. But again looking at the paces you post...

Very unconvential, also looking at your pb s, some are strong, others relative less so. 5/10k very strong, 100 m strong. 2k relative less, marathon relative less. The paces you are precribing aldo make not much sense. 100m s in 1.30 500 meters in 1.50 with a pb on the 10k in the 33. Which is 142 pa...