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If you put LeBron James on an erg right now, quickly showed him the basics of erging, and let him do a 2k, I doubt he would go faster than 6:45 or so, which weight adjusted wouldn't be that good whatsoever. Even if he did go faster for his weight he'd have to pull a 5:40 or so to be any good. To be...

It would be negligent of me not to post this youtube video:



Rowing starts at 4:53. He pulls a 1:18 500 after doing sets of deadlift at 800lbs! I fully realize that this guy would probably sink any boat OTW.

... Your erg times and mine are very similar. And, I was a collegiate swimmer before ... now a rower. And, I'm 6'4" ~202 lbs. How long have you been rowing/erging? Cool man! I swam for a year in college and began rowing sophomore year, fall 2007. What events did you swim? Are you rowing in college?

I have personally found weight training and strength to be extremely beneficial to 2k performance. When I started rowing three years ago, I had hardly ever touched a barbell before. When I began training squats, deadlifts, and power cleans I noticed an immediate increase in power. In the first 3 mon...

Today, we had a boathouse-wide 2k erg-off. This is one of my last 2ks before I graduate, so I was really pumped. I wanted to go somewhere around 6:18. I was at 1:34.9 pace with 500 to go and managed to pull 1:32.3 for the last 500 to get a 6:16.9. Woot. I also finally achieved my lifetime goal of ha...

It varies alot from person to person. Are you better at sprints or longer distances? The smallest difference I've seen is about 5 seconds, and the largest I've seen is 10 seconds (me!). Have you done any non-6k pieces?

Haven't posted here in a while, but I've been consistently training. In the fall, I dropped my 6k down to a 20:57 (1:44.8) from a 1:45.8 split last year while focusing more on strength training then endurance . Additionally, I just low pulled a 1:12, down from a 1:15 (and yes, I recognize that low p...

ancho wrote:Nice progression that is.
What you think is your potential?

Thanks! I've been very happy with the progress I've made so far. My long term goal is to break 6:20 before I graduate (I'm a sophomore this year).

Last 2k of the winter training season. Before this season my pr had been 6:41. I went 6:35 and 6:34 two and four weeks ago. I got on today and felt much stronger than usual at the 1000 and pushed it to get a 6:30.9.

If so, what events do you/ did you do? I was a 200 freestyler and butterflyer and still get in the pool every once and a while.

Did a 20 minute test today. Goal time was a 1:47, ended up going 1:45.2 at about 27 strokes per minute.

I was tempted to say Michael Phelps, but he has short legs relative to his height and swimming in general doesn't require very strong legs (it is about 70% upper body, the opposite of rowing). All the things you mention as disadvantages, I feel are great advantages for rowing. My pick is Michael Ph...

Speed skaters (long track) would definitely be really solid. Most of them are tall, and have huge legs and really good endurace.

If I had to pick any single athlete for the erg (where being very large isn't neccesarily much of a disadvantage), I might actually pick one of the heavier UFC fighters. They are massively strong and need great endurance to get through fights. I was tempted to say Michael Phelps, but he has short le...

If you selected 8 guys from any sport and trained them for a year, which sport would win in an OTW competition? Which athlete out of all of them would have the fastest 2k? This is my speculation, please share yours: Swimmers win, because of similar build/endurance compared to heavyweight rowers. Mic...