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First off, you can progress in both. You will eventually have a difficult time recovering if both weights and rowing are progressing. When this happens, you will have to start introducing light days and be ok with seeing a new personal best less often. As you have observed, you can't keep improving ...

I have a few thoughts that may be of value to you. What is the goal of stretching? I propose that static stretching before you row only has one goal: to get you into the proper position for rowing. If you can achieve the ideal rowing positions without static stretching, then static stretching is unn...

jackarabit wrote: ↑

July 18th, 2019, 3:21 pm

A response free from unsolicited advice! it is possible!!!

Yes, and smoke free will also get him to advice free. Smokers shouldn’t make book on their chances of life after suicide.

Oh, it was all sound advice. No doubt about that.

I knew a successful competitive soccer player that smoked a pack a day. I can't say they encountered any sudden increase in performance when they quit nor would they say they felt smoking ever held them back. I do not know any competitive rowers that smoke other than recreational cigar or pipe smoke...

like this

Postimage is the way to go. Upload your photo to https://postimages.org/ and then grab their link to it. You must wrap the link with the img tag. You can see what to do if you reply quoting my post. It will reveal the img tag and link to the image. https://i.postimg.cc/3RF2DHGp/IMG-20190530-06183167...

I have not seen a thread on the topic of Concept2's podcast. It is available on iTunes, Google Play, and a few other services (no Spotify). The website for the show is here: https://www.concept2.com/indoor-rowers/training/workout-podcast They have published 27 episodes and it covers all of their equ...

Noseve wrote: ↑

July 1st, 2019, 1:31 pm

Quatroux wrote: ↑

July 1st, 2019, 1:23 pm

Cool experience. I finished up a learn to row camp. Got 8 kids introduced to the sport.

Very satisfying, or maybe not so in a couple of years when they're rowing through you at half the stroke rate...

Won't take them long!

Noseve wrote: ↑

July 1st, 2019, 12:44 pm

As for the weekend, I had a row in an old wooden gig, with fixed seats. Great fun, as different from a C2 as one could imagine. loved every minute.

Cool experience. I finished up a learn to row camp. Got 8 kids introduced to the sport.

Gammmmo wrote: ↑

June 29th, 2019, 7:23 am

maybe that is a good thing by getting some blood into the area.

Glad you're back at it!

Also, I'd say if I see an athlete with a jolt at the catch at any rather below 35 or so. was that sentence a result of your phone auto-correct? What did you mean to say? Crazy as I think I used a real computer and keyboard for this. Anyway, you folks got it right. Common to see rowers rushing up to...

Noseve wrote: ↑

June 28th, 2019, 2:36 pm

Thanks all for your thoughts - and Quatroux, I smile every time I read your signature!

I do my best!

Also, I'd say if I see an athlete with a jolt at the catch at any rather below 35 or so.

Looks like you are thinking correctly about this and have really dug into it. As my old coach says, "sometimes you just need to pull harder."

Also, unpopular opinion here, but CNS fatigue is not a real thing. Eat, sleep, and have a target split for every piece. Really? So, you've never been mentally tired? If the mind isn't willing, you'll never do what you could do. Yes! Totally serious. The brain protecting your body from accumulating ...

If I was lifting a giant rock off the ground, I would not attempt to jerk it from its resting position. I would not explode with force in an attempt to rocket the mass from its resting place. Instead, I would "squeeze" it off the ground. I'd get a good grip, brace myself, and apply increasing pressu...