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Tendinitis is very common, although if the pain feels more in the muscle belly than, say, around the elbow, it may be something else. Complicating matters is that pain can be referred. Rotator cuff injuries often refer down the arm, although usually on the outside (triceps side) rather than the bice...

Hi Zoomster. The odds are strongly in your favour that you'll be back into it before too long with almost if not completely full strength :) I'm more into weights than ergs but I had a full thickness supraspinatus tear repaired about 7 years ago (then aged 58). Surgeon said it was a real mess when h...

The 2007 World Shortcourse Indoor Rowing Championships are to be held in Takapuna, New Zealand on 8-9 September. A friendly invitation is extended to indoor rowers of all ages throughout the world to come and join us. Competition features short-distance races of 1000m, 500m, 300m and 100m. The team...

Hi BlueCrew. Welcome to the forum. I'm no expert, but I do know that the difference between a 7:40 and a 7:00 2000m is considerable. To put the comparison in perspective, when you row a 7:40 at an even pace you're pulling with an average power of 230 Watts. To row a 7:00 your average power will need...

Firstly, talk of 5% BF or less is utter rubbish, unless you are in dire straits healthwise. It might be in vogue for BBs to quote such figures (usually based on one of the arbitary formulae applied to caliper readings of subcutaneous fat, or much more rarely - from hydrostatic suspension and the app...

As per some of the suggestions above, high GI carbs are good to replace the depleted glycogen in your muscles. Get the carbs on board straight after your session. Apart from those already mentioned, a banana is another good choice. If you've been giving your muscles a serious workout they'll also be...

Ah, at last, someone around here with a modicum of wit ... and an ex-pat Aussie to boot? :roll: Nah, just kidding mate! I admire the Aussie spirit. Fat Boyz Rowing Club. Now I could really take to being a member of that, on two counts: (1) I've spent my life wanting to be fat or even just called fat...

A cheap one-liner that is neither relevant to the subject I was hoping to learn more about, nor very meaningful as it stands. The variations in LV volumes and cardiac wall thicknesses due to ethnicity, age, gender etc. have more statistical significance than the variations observed between different...

please note that we have a new feature on the forum - ignore user. this will allow forum users to selectively ignore individual posters - each ignore post will be replaced with 'you have chosen to ignore this user'. please post with any questions. -bill :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: You guys crack ...

Thanks guys. I really appreciate your quick responses! I feel sure the points you've each made are valid but I realise now that it would be more helpful if I expanded a bit on my own situation. My apologies for not doing so. Thanks in particular to FB1 for taking into consideration the few details I...

Only interested in short distances. Really enjoy sprints under 1000m. Spend much more time weight training and I'm a sometime cyclist. So I guess I'm kind of here under false pretences

2hrs max. erging per week: Sprints, Tabata and 20-min HIIT sessions.

I'm sure there's no one 'correct' value but I'm curious to know what sort of drag factors people use for sprint racing (500m, 1000m). I attended my first indoor rowing comp about this time last year. It was the first time I'd met anyone with any idea of how to row other than the '35spm, damper 10, 2...

Nicely done, John. Since you were watching watts, were you working on a certain goal watt level? I haven't done a time trail 500m in a while but last winter I did do 500m sprints with a certain goal watt level in mind - like 320w. I knew that a certain wattage gave me a certain pace so I hung on to...

Hi guys. Up until a month ago I'd only managed to shave 1.9 seconds off my 1:31.7 PB 500m of two years ago. I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever get below 1:30 :cry: . However, in the last four weeks I've concentrated on my starts and been keeping the PM3 display on Watts/ Ave. Watts without worryi...

PaulS wrote:... so if the avg power happened to differ when time had been a dead heat, who wins, the one with the lower (more efficient) or the one with the higher avg watts? Do we appreciate the perhaps more stenuous effort over the efficient one, or the other way around?

The elder one?