Concept2 Forum

How are you doing rowmania? You and I are pretty much the same height and weight and I also want to know what's realistic for a light and on the shorter side woman. I'm just starting the interactive plan (3 weeks in) and would be really happy to achieve under 8'50 2k like you by end April. I think I...

At my fitness level, which is either 2 or 3 on the IP, it only gives the option of 3-5 sessions per week. If I'm doing 2 otw sessions, I'm wondering whether I will overdo it if I train on the 4 sessions a week on the IP (so 6 days a week total rowing). The otw rowing is about 1- 1.5 hours long but i...

I'm pretty new to actually using an erg (it's been gathering dust), but rowing otw twice a week for a couple of years with a weights session weekly. I'm 3 weeks into the interactive plan but wanted to know whether people just follow this on top of other exercise or if I will over do it if I do all t...

Thanks for the advice, encouragement, and link to your masters programme. It is silly, but I think my issue with the erg is that I have always assumed my splits should be better than they are, and therefore I just kill myself eveeytjme I try... rather than training at an achievable split. I've start...

That interactive plan looks great, as i can focus on HR rather than splits. Thank you. I row on the river twice a week so will find it hard to do more than 3 ergs if I'm being realistic. But hopefully I can try to match the outings to the workouts as closely as possible.

I think a heart rate monitor will help motivate me and I would probably get into a training programme that focussed on training wrt HR rather than the splits on the erg. I find them so discouraging as it feels impossible to achieve splits others do. I have just been looking at petes plan and wonderi...

I know I'm strong as I can measure that in weight training. Undoubtedly there are things to work on with technique but I think it's better than average. We get coached and I am regarded by the crew as being good. So that only really leaves cardio as the culprit. In the boat I feel that I'm putting p...

I've been rowing (on the water) for a couple of years now with outings twice a week and weight training once a week. These are the bits I love and am reasonably good at (for a leisure rower). I'm small (female, 110lbs, 5'2", age 40) so am unlikely to ever break any records, but I really like rowing ...