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by shaugh13
August 13th, 2012, 5:29 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Help! How can I break my Erg Plateau??
Replies: 7
Views: 5302

Re: Help! How can I break my Erg Plateau??

Yeah that level of weights would burn out alot people as a training plan alone in my opinion. It's kind of a toss up in weights now and is probably a seperate arguement, some people believe doing high rep endurance weights is best for rowing other believe doing pure strength training is better, im f...
by shaugh13
August 13th, 2012, 5:15 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Help! How can I break my Erg Plateau??
Replies: 7
Views: 5302

Re: Help! How can I break my Erg Plateau??

What weight/height are you? To know if you are over/ under training what splits are pulling for the workouts, to me it seems like your doing too much interval training and not enough long steady state training session (10-15k). What kind of weights are you doing 6 days a week, most body builders wou...
by shaugh13
August 11th, 2012, 7:56 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Tried the erg for the first time ever; 6:56 2000m
Replies: 40
Views: 43204

Re: Tried the erg for the first time ever; 6:56 2000m

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...
by shaugh13
August 10th, 2012, 9:04 am
Forum: Training
Topic: Tried the erg for the first time ever; 6:56 2000m
Replies: 40
Views: 43204

Re: Tried the erg for the first time ever; 6:56 2000m

But they have little power when the drag factor is set and 100 or lower because rowing (and erging) is a pushing sport. Back and arms only come into play near the end of the stroke. . Rowing is nearly all back and legs. so your bench wont help you at all, your impressive deadlift and level of fitne...