Concept2 Forum

Again, I'm not looking to become a competitive national athlete, just a fun sport that I can improve on and be competitive among other novice rowers. Any advice for a beginner at erging (technique, training exercises etc.) would be so helpful. I am new to erging/rowing myself and have also found th...

Screen shot 2012-08-15 at 4.28.17 PM.png In other words, if you want to cut the pace in half, you have to increase the power by a factor of 8. From a pace of 4:01.0 to a pace of 2:00.5, you have to increase the power from 25 watts to 200 watts. 125 to 1000 for 2:20.9 to 1:10.5. Note that a 25 watt ...

I have wondered about that myself, but I have never heard it discussed. when I first started sweep rowing, I chose port, mostly because all the boats back in those ancient time were rigged with seats 1, 3, 5, and 7 on the starboard and 2, 4, 6, and stroke on the port. My main reason was that I had ...

Thanks again everyone! @ Carl Watts, yes, I think you are right, I was rating too fast. Looking back I was rushing the recovery. But for doing a 2k as fast as you can, wouldn't you normally have a fast rate? @ Bob S., thanks once again for the thoughtful description. Makes a lot of sense. As far as ...

Back to the SS vs intervals. Both are useful and most training programs incorporate both. One quite popular erg program, the Pete Plan, schedules a couple of interval sessions, one with many short intervals and one with 4 longer intervals each week. It has three long steady state sessions and one l...

Regarding mega-meters per week to get better. Definitely not needed. It would more than likely beat you down than train you. Marathon runners train around 100 miles a week or 4x race distance. If you are focusing on 2K, 200K a week is completely unnecessay. I can't put a number on what it should be...

Someone suggested interval training to lower your 2k. In the short term, yes. In the long term, wrong approach. Loads of SS with a few interval/short pieces per week is the answer. Huh interesting. Why does interval training work in the short term but not as much in the longer term? And sorry to so...

Thanks for all the responses! Congrats on 6:56 right out of the box. It says a lot about your fitness, athletic ability, size, age, etc. You might have 20 more secs that will come somewhat quickly. To get to 6:00 will involve considerable effort. Obviously just time on the rower is important. I pers...

Hello all, So, watching the olympics inspired me to try out the erg at my gym for the 1st time ever. Last monday I decided to try 2000m since that is the race distance in the olympics, but somehow I didn't see my time before the erg somehow reset. So, I went again 48 hrs later to do it again, and go...