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Fartlek. They make up 75% of my BikeErg workouts. You can integrate that 6 x 1:00 into a steady 60 minute workout by using Intervals: Variable and programming it as 9/1/9/1/9/1 etc etc all with zero rests. Ride the 9 minute sections at upper zone 2 (~75% of FTP) and blast the minute sections at upw...

I try to workout 60 minutes a day. So in a week I average somewhere around 420 minutes total workout time, most of which is spent in aerobic zones and rarely exceeds 90% of my FTP. I am experimenting, however, with integrating High Intensity Intervals into the total weekly workout minutes. For examp...

You say that your HR never exceeded 82% of max HR How have you calculated your max HR - is it max running HR, cycling HR, rowing HR ? I took the highest reading on the BikeErg for a HIIT workouit: 15 x 1:00 max effort / 1:00 active recovery. I started rowing on a Model C when I was 50 years old. In...

Four months ago I started combining workouts on the BikeErg with rowing workouts. This afternoon on the BikeErg I did a long endurance ride with sprinting approximately every 10 minutes. According to Andy Coggan’s power profiling chart, Sprinting is effort less than 30 seconds and focused on develop...

CharleCarroll wrote: ↑

November 29th, 2020, 5:53 pm

... am wondering if 75% of FTP roughly correlates to 75% of Avg Watts?

Sorry! I meant to write "... can correlate to Avg Watts?"

I..unless your mass changed significantly from beginning to end of the ride :wink: Oh yeah! :roll: Happens all the time. But it is nice to have a bit of reassurance. It makes sense that Watts, Pace, Power/kg, Projected Finish, RPM correlate to some extent and can be used to indicate Training Zones ...

Dear all, I am just beginning to learn about how to use the ErgBike. I have done my first FTP Test, and I am wondering if 75% of FTP roughly correlates to 75% of Avg Watts? This would be very convenient inasmuch as the PM5 shows a value for Avg Watts but does not show a value for Avg Power/kg. Warme...

I couldn't fit the handlebar into my BikeErg also. It was a huge disappointment, especially because it was on a Friday afternoon over the Labor Day Weekend and I live in California. I had to wait until Tuesday to contact Concept2 for help. The only solution was to send me a replacement handlebar. Af...

I think I may have found the problem. I lubricate the chain on the Dynamic Indoor Rower as instructed, which is about every 50 days, and today was the day to do it. I just follow the instructions in the user manual. When I pulled out the chain to rub it with the instructed teaspoon of purified miner...

This is the copy of an email that I just sent to Nathan Paulin and Trevor Braun at Concept2. I am hoping that someone on this Forum might be able help with this probroblem. Dear Trevor and Nathan, Since early October every time I go to row on my Dynamic Indoor Rower the PM5 boots with the following ...

I was about to reply and say that Just Rides won't show as verified, but looking at my logbook I spotted a verified Just Ride from 2 rides ago. But the bulk seem to be not verified. Maybe that one was an anomaly. Dave, I could have written the same post. Our observations are identical. I did a Just...

Hi All, Just got a new BikeErg ... the handlebar reach adjustment seems to be very tight Had the same problem. Maybe worse because I couldn't fit the handlebar through the handlebar post opening. Ben Hickory at Concept2 Tech Support sent me a replacement handlebar. The replacement was quite tight; ...

Moments ago I talked to Megan at Concept2 Support. Megan speculated that the "not verified" might be attributed to the type of data entry. She wondered if only Ranked Workouts get a Verification Code. The workout in question was a Just Ride workout, slightly longer than 30 mins, and sure enough ther...

Why is my BikeErg workout listed in my Logbook as "not verified" when it was entered by ErgData?

I strongly suspect that the problem with the PM5's incorrectly reporting the Total Stroke Count is in the hardware. It's not the hardware. It's most likely a firmware bug in the routines that run "Just Row". My first row on the Dynamic Indoor Rower (DIY) was 17 January 2017. Since then I have rowed...