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I've done several rowing sessions since I last posted. I've done some easy 5K's, some 2.5K's before and after lifting sessions, an 6x250m interval (keeping the pace in the range 1.26-1.30), and two 5x20sec all out sprints. During the first all out sprint session, I low-pulled 1.14 (PR). This was a b...

Congrats, but why not keep at for a while? This is at best a 90% effort, working on your speed could nicely flow in your longer work later on. Thanks guys... if i work on speed stuff a lot i will end up hating the erg and probably selling it which is not what i want. I was cursing the erg after thi...

hjs wrote:Re setting, you talk about 7, but you need to know the drag, public machines tend to be dirty/dusty, this lowers the drag, for sprinting thats not handy. Most use use 150 drag and up.

Understood. Thank you.

Well, I'm stronger at those lifts, but certainly not in rowing. I'm going to go for a max effort low pull soon. I'll have someone hold the machine down for me... when it hit 1:18, I was feeling like I was still building up, but I just fell out. If I can come anywhere close to your pull (say within a...

Awesome.

You must be generating a lot of power to pull that low. How much can you power clean?

Btw, what's your 500 PR?

I've gotten down to 1:18. The machine starts jumping around on me and I fell out of the seat (hurt my butt on the slide, which was a little embarrassing) when I hit that number.

Spinoza, proberly usefull to browse below http://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=111430 Thank you. Very informative. I'm going to postpone my 500m PR attempt and work on some of the advice offered in that thread and elsewhere. New goal is 1:20, but I think I'll know if this is a feasible time f...

A paddle eh?

A really heavy paddle that demands human sacrifices every 250 meters.

I was going to do a 5k all out within the next week, but this thread has motivated to re-focus on the 500m. Currently, I have a 1:24.2. The shorter distances may be more to my strengths, since I'm fairly strong/powerful (560 deadlift, 320 power clean). So, here's my plan. Next Friday evening, I'm go...

This may not even be a true PR in the 5k, but it's the first time I went hard (after overhead squatting) and paid attention to my pace. I got a 17:48. So, that's my PR. I don't know how hard it will be to get below 17:30, but that's my goal next time I do a 5k. I'm pretty sure I can do it. I must ad...

7x5xBW neutral chin ups, worked on being explosive.
3x20 push ups.
Rowed 5000m at easy pace.

Deadlifts. 3x405, 4x455, 1x505, 3x405. Rowing intervals. 5x250 with 1 minute rests. I tried to do better than 1:27/500m pace--first two were faster, second two barely held on, and I faded in the last one. Legs were burning, (will)power was depleted. I shouldn't have done these so soon after a 2000m ...

Nice, spinoza! Thank you. We're pretty close in the 500m, and you have 5 seconds on me in the 2000m (which is likely fairly substantial due to diminishing returns). So, this gives me something to shoot for. I was looking at your 5k time, and I realized that your ~6:50/2000m pace is nearly as good a...

New PR in 2000. Previous PR was 6:46, new PR is 6:35. I suspected the 2000 PR was low hanging fruit, and it appears I was right. I meant to go for this PR sooner, but I came down with something. I continued training, but only high intensity, low volume strength training. I'll be going after my 1:24....