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This all is very interesting AMBer. Either it means that I'm going about my training all wrong (increasing meters every year). Maybe that explains that in a year I never did more than 30K on average in meters per week, I set my PB and since then I've struggled to match it (even though I'm doing nea...

I'd buy a heart rate monitor Andy, Great work on starting out. Listen to Dangerscouse. Buy a heart rate monitor. Listen to H2) - cover the monitor (or partially cover so you can see rate and time but not split). Buy some bluetooth earbuds. I've just gotten back into it after 20 years away from the ...

By the time they got to Rio, they had been rowing together in the pair for almost 10 years (maybe more, since they trained in a pair during the Beijing cycle occasionally) Good points. Maybe everybody else avoided them. That explains why the unbeaten run may have lasted. Noel Donaldson's presentati...

Emailing with the physiologist (Daniel Plews) the training load and fatigue data have driven this approach since it is all available for analysis. He is a pioneer in Heart Rate Variation and separation of aerobic dominant vs anerobic dominant athletes. Have a look at the comments he makes for a 7x4 ...

Could you please share the full PDF of the article? I can't find it in usual places. I have a prepublication copy. Let me check with the authors. You can look at the 7 x 4 min step protocol and gain a great deal of information. Both the Australian and NZ team focus on watt numbers as much as splits...

15 hours a week is 6 x 2.5 hours which is very little on top of that 80% < LT1 for one of the rowers but not for the other although in the same boat. Was one of them in worse shape? I simply do not believe it. I would not want to work out that little if I were full time devoted to rowing, would you...

Training Intensity Distribution Over a Four-Year Cycle in Olympic Champion Rowers: Different Roads Lead to Rio Daniel J. Plews, Paul B. Laursen The purpose of this study was to compare the training intensity distribution (TID) of the undefeated world champion male rowing New Zealand (kiwi) pair over...