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jamesg wrote: ↑

April 23rd, 2024, 12:38 am

Doesn't look like rowing. Boats move fast, so we must too: during the pull.

It looks like the video was made to present a good form - in other words not particularly realistic. No energy being exerted. Rowing at 1:50 is entirely different from 2:30. Definitely more layback needed.

Hope you can post your revised P/AR method. Course, as always, it will undoubtedly knock me way back, which is OK.

A little perspective on some recent posts. Me [earlier]: "Interval training is well established in all endurance activities. I've used shorter type intervals in running, cycling, and rowing with good results. The training effects of intervals cannot be duplicated with only longer rows. Someone not ...

One wonders how it is that a relative newcomer to erging with at best modest results feels compelled to issue snarky comment to one with considerable experience and accomplishments across the endurance sports spectrum, including currently holding 21 world rowing records, leading three nonathlons in ...

Sakly wrote: ↑

May 14th, 2024, 12:21 am

Has anyone written something different?

Yeah, the OP.

Got to give CrossFit its due. CrossFit gyms have conservatively brought 250,000 C2 ergs into the world's exercise space. Concept 2 rowing would in all actuality be nowhere without the impact of Crossfit. But regarding the influence of CrossFit on C2 rowing itself. The emphasis on short, calorie base...

Adding my two cents for the OP's pursuit of sub-7. First, the OP's 1- 2 - 5 - 10K times are consistent. Pace: 143.1, 1:47.5, 1:52.6, 7 1:56.8. Nothing jumps out as too slow or fast. Two things are needed. One: You have to get comfortable pulling out of your comfort zone. Doing 1:41.x for 1K is not t...

Thanks for additional info, but the actual calculations remain obscure. I really do not find the lists particularly compelling. I'll stick with P/AR, nonathlon, and C2 rankings for any comparative data.

After the column "Weight" you have one column per event and in that column you see the points your time in that event gave you. The penultimate column is "TotalScore": this is the sum of all your points in the considered events or ZERO if you haven't logged a ranked sessions in each considered even...

Any clearer now ? I finally accessed the files, though I know nothing about Excel. I found my name in a fullrange, M file with a row of numbers. I have no idea what those numbers represent. Some sort of ranking seems to be implied - based on what, how calculated? C2 rankings and nonathlon rankings ...

Hate to be the dense one, but I have no idea what I'm seeing and certainly not how to use and understand all of this. Somehow what you have presented needs to be made less, way less, obscure.

73 pts is not as bad as my 126 pts lost. And that is less than the pts lost for the last two yrs. As much as I appreciate the nonathlon guys and their scorings, I have suggested to them that they do their target numbers in May and leave them alone for the entire season. They seem to be receptive to ...

One of the American Olympians is 40 and about to compete in her third Olympics. I'm not sure what her erg performance has looked like over the last decade+, but I do wonder when age-related decline starts for someone consistently training. That question is complicated by the fact that better traini...

Some comments: Any tweaking of the P/AR calculations to make them more legit is a good thing. but, then again, it has to do that. Not sure that I totally grasp what the fallout will be from the proposed tweak. But I am interested in the results. Advantage of Slides over Rowerg - a much debated notio...

No doubt that increased heart rate and blood pressure, often coupled with caffeine, can result in excruciating headaches sometimes during a row and/or shortly after. For me, these are occasional one-time occurrences. I would be worried if this happened frequently.