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You cannot even row a 5K at 1:48 pace But the issue for my training, Carl, and Mike's, is not doing a 5K trial, 1:48 @ AT, but a 5K paddle, 1:48 @ UT2. At UT2, you do 5K at 2:03. At UT2, Mike does 5K at something similar. Why? ranger you're missing the point - again - your problem is that you can't...

ranger wrote:Once your fitness is maximal, what is important is to get maximally effective and efficient at rowing so that you can make the best use of your fitness.

And in Rangerland, of course, once fitness is "maximal", it just magically stays like that - you don't have to keep working on it...

I would guess that youtubes max length of video is much longer than you can row without a break...

seriously, do you read the shit that you post on here. I mean, Byron tends to document it, but have you no clue, how much bollocks you actually commit to the ether... I have too much time on my hands, so it does kind of interest me, from a kind of rubbbernecking car crash point of view, but I do won...

hang on... you constantly claim that your fitness is maximal, and hasn't declined, and that your full body strength is as it was 30 years ago, so you can't now pull out the " normal decline with age" line to differentiate between unrealistic FM targets 5 years ago, and now... which is it? natural d...

hang on... you constantly claim that your fitness is maximal, and hasn't declined, and that your full body strength is as it was 30 years ago, so you can't now pull out the " normal decline with age" line to differentiate between unrealistic FM targets 5 years ago, and now... which is it? natural de...

I can run my HR at 172 bpm, steady state, for an hour, but that's about it. You can't row over your anaerobic threshold for an hour. So that's my anaerobic threshold. ranger but you don't row constantly for an hour - and you certainly haven't done this recently, because otherwise you would have bro...

O.K., Mike-- Here's a more quantifiable sessions that I would like to do: 10 x 2K (1 minute rest) @ 22-24 spm and a UT1 HR. No rowing over your anaerobic threshold. I'll work at trying to get this done. Then I will try to do it reguarly. ranger part one to getting this done, will require you actual...

Did you not say you dont row with breaks now ? RWBs is rowing at high drag (max: 200+ df.), low rates (18-21 spm), high stroking powers (14-16 SPI), and high HRs (AT, etc.) over short many short intervals (250m-750m?), with short rest (15 seconds?), adding up to long distances. I haven't been doing...

Did you not say you dont row with breaks now ? RWBs is rowing at high drag (max: 200+ df.), low rates (18-21 spm), high stroking powers (14-16 SPI), and high HRs (AT, etc.) over short many short intervals (250m-750m?), with short rest (15 seconds?), adding up to long distances. I haven't been doing...

hmm - still waiting for that photo of you with your knees in your armpits...... but on another note... say for just one minute, that you do go on to pull a 6:16 2k lightweight @60..... ( yeah I know its unlikely, but I'm hypothesising).... given the assertion that everyone's times decrease by a seco...

...I check the catch by putting my knees in my armpits... you what? ...and sitting up tall... please can you post a picture of this, as I defy anyone to put their knees in their armpits and sit up tall... why the f**k you'd want to is also completely beyond me. bump - request for photo still stands...

ranger wrote: ...I check the catch by putting my knees in my armpits...

you what?

ranger wrote: ...and sitting up tall...

please can you post a picture of this, as I defy anyone to put their knees in their armpits and sit up tall... why the f**k you'd want to is also completely beyond me.

How is rowing 20 k 9 days before a max 2k effort going to help you get your best time. Here we go again. I am not training for any particular regatta. I am training to be the best that I can be. I am just doing regattas in the flow of my training, as they come along. ranger OK - so heres a question...

Regarding SPI: for the fun of it I calculated SPI for the 7 fastest rowers in the Danish Open LW championship 10 days ago. Among them are some of the fastest lightweights in the world right now. I had to use average strokerate pr. 500 meters which is not fully accurate but allmost. SPI ranged from ...