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by TheGreatFatsby
April 15th, 2013, 11:52 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

TGF, excellent glad to see your improvements. I'm no expert, but 147 bpm sounds high to me. Wayne Thanks, Wayne! My heart rate monitor calculates your max heart rate based on age, height, and weight, and resting heart rate, and alarms if you are going too high so you can cool off. Currently after m...
by TheGreatFatsby
April 15th, 2013, 10:54 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Hi everyone! Well i have good and bad news to report. First, here's how the last week looked for me: http://i.imgur.com/2yztKha.png First, the bad news. As you can see, I missed a day on the 10th. Since I started rowing, this is the first time I've missed a scheduled row day. The night before, I jus...
by TheGreatFatsby
April 9th, 2013, 11:16 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Great report, TGF! It looks like it is working. Holding the pace under 2:20 for 12 minutes is a solid achievement. I am looking forward to your next report. Keep up the good work. Bob . Thanks, Bob! This morning I got really excited because I actually bested yesterdays row for an all time best for ...
by TheGreatFatsby
April 8th, 2013, 8:26 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

I had forgotten that you use a WaterRower rather than a C2, but was reminded of it by Wayne's post. The principles should be pretty much the same, but I have no idea how the WR determines the work done. That said, if it does give watts, you can use that to calculate other ways of expressing the wor...
by TheGreatFatsby
April 2nd, 2013, 4:53 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

TGF, Stroke rate, high or low, is not any kind of useful goal. It is the rate of work done, i.e. the wattage, that counts and the work done is a combination of stroke rate and the work done per stroke. In turn the work done per stroke depends on the force exerted on the handle and the length of the...
by TheGreatFatsby
April 2nd, 2013, 7:34 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

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I just wanted to say thank you to all the posters and their support and efforts. You guys inspire me. As for the haters; nothing is more abhorrent than success to haters. They cannot stand it. Make them hate. Hey thanks for posting! So great to see everyone here making steady progress. I know for m...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 30th, 2013, 4:12 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Big difference, I'm lighter on my feet and have had to get some new clothes for work. There are three of us in the team now too, so that will help. Are you always doing the same training, 12 minutes at same rate? If so, why not mix it up? I'm doing all sorts, but most often I plan my training to ha...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 30th, 2013, 2:40 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Feeling pretty good today, just back from a check-up and I've lost 15kg (33lb) since New Year. B) Wayne Congrats! Aside from the number on the scale can you feel a difference physically? I'm at 45 down and I can really feel a difference in the way my clothes fit and just the room I have around me i...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 28th, 2013, 9:47 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Keep the reports coming, TGF. It is great to see your enthusiasm and to know that you are making progress. Whether you get feedback on the thread or not, I am sure that there are folks out there who are inspired by your example to go at it on their own. As I said before, I hope that the OP of this ...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 25th, 2013, 8:11 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

I was following this thread and haven't seen any posts for a while, so my turn I guess. I'm a 400 pounder, bought a model D and started rowing for the first time in the last week of January. Why, kind of a New Year resolution I suppose. My goal, to lose 165 pounds. After the initial soreness and tw...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 11th, 2013, 3:30 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

TGF, your 1k time trial is impressive! As are your improvement in fitness overall. Stick with it and you will go far. Actually you will go nowhere, but that is the fate of indoor rowers! Seriously, once you get accustomed to rowing, you can back off a bit and row for longer on those days when you d...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 6th, 2013, 7:52 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Your words were a big part of that, so for that I thank you, and if you're ever in the south texas area , the beers are on me. Same goes for you, bob! That was familiar territory to me at one time. From March '44 to May '45 I was stationed at the Army Air Forces base at Moore Field. The nearest tow...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 5th, 2013, 11:23 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

The handiest term for forum use is "time trial." I just sent this on another thread and realized that it might be appropriate here as well: To start with, it helps to know some of the jargon. This is a bit out-dated, but still useful: http://www.c2forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=38 Next, learn about ...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 5th, 2013, 9:33 am
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

Great post, TGF! Like you, I hope that the OP of this thread has not given up on this forum. I was very disappointed that two of the usually reliable posters were so negative in their responses. I have been at rock bottom condition myself and know how pathetic those first efforts appear. In my case...
by TheGreatFatsby
March 4th, 2013, 1:53 pm
Forum: Weight Loss & Weight Control
Topic: Fat Noob needs starting advice
Replies: 151
Views: 155532

Re: Fat Noob needs starting advice

fatrower, I hope you haven't abandoned this topic for good. In the off chance that you come back and see this I just wanted to let you know that you and a couple of the other posters here helped motivate me to get a rower and start getting in shape. Let me start off by saying i have considerably mor...