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3. I found it hugely useful to go and get myself a heart rate monitor. I got a polar watch gizmo. By doing this and using the definitions of training bands from the UK concept 2 site (AN, AT, UT1, UT2), I was able to get a better understanding of just how hard to push during different sessions, and...

OK, so today on Pete Lite (the beginner's edition) I was to do 4x750 with 2 minute breaks. I really wanted to know what my times would be today for a 500 and a 1000, so I decided to do one of each and then two 750. 500: 2:25.4 1000: 5:05.9 750: 4:20.7 750: 3:58 The big lesson I learned today is that...

Hi, I thought I'd chime in. I want to try to answer a couple of your questions and maybe give you a little advice. I'm pretty new at this as well. I've been at it for a year. I started rowing on the erg to lose weight. I was pretty confused when I started and had trouble figuring out how "good" I w...

5500m in 38min is a 3:27.2 pace (time to complete 500m). That means you're doing no work, so unless you're an eighty year old, 5'2" tall, lightweight (<135lb) lady there's lots of room for improvement. I agree that Citroen went too far in that one. (It caught me by surprise. It seemed out of charac...

ThatMoos3Guy wrote:

unladen_swallow wrote:
Also, if you go over to the concept2.co.uk message boards there are a couple threads about the pete plan, which pete posts in regularly.

Keep it up!

Good to know, thank you!

5500m in 38min is a 3:27.2 pace (time to complete 500m). That means you're doing no work, so unless you're an eighty year old, 5'2" tall, lightweight (<135lb) lady there's lots of room for improvement. Read this: http://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=38 and watch this: http://www.youtube.com/w...

It means 20 minutes is less time than it took for you to row 5500m i.e. It took more than 20mins for you to row 5500m I wrote to Pete about it at the time and he said that they could have written it a bit better. OK, I feel better. And also like I should have been able to figure that out - reading ...

Me: 37, female, former athlete (tournament fighter) who got pretty fat over the course of seven years of grad school (it's two doctorates, it takes awhile. And no, I'm not done with my dissertation yet, Mom. :-)) Between being sedentary, drinking too much wine and beer at night, and eating wrong foo...