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excuse my skepticism, but a 3:00 split probably isnt giving you much of a workout, unless you are rowing for hours and hours. 1. for resistance you have to row significantly harder (1:30-2:00 split depending on the piece) 2. I don't think it really matters as long as you keep your back straight and ...

10% layback with oar in chest at the finish. You gain most of your power from your legs, so in my opinion, a lot of layback puts too much of the burden on your arms and it is uncomfortable. So let your legs do the grunt work and just use your arms at the finish to get that extra little bit of extens...

my coach described proper back position as if someone had a fist in the small of your back. You should sit up straight and while on the recovery you should bend forward from the waist so u can really feel it in your hamstrings. keep this forward body angle all the way up the slide.

I had a similar problem with my arms not being high enough at the catch. My coach explained that each drive I was losing push because before I could actually generate split, I had to use energy to raise my handle. Just work on keeping the body angle throughout the recovery, and exploding out on the ...

get to the next 5 minutes.

so you basically break it into 1500 meter pieces.

its all about fooling your mind into thinking that you only have a ltitle more to go.

I'm no doctor nor do I know about anything on the medical side of this, but I can tell you that I've killed myself on a erg and haven't felt sick afterwards, just tired.

and by kill i mean sprinting a lot of 1500s.

I don't think thats the reason why you have a fever.

I'm 16 and we did 5x1500 today. Times: 4:54.7/5:17/4:58/5:17/5:10

personally I am not the top 10%, however I go to a very competitive crew high school. This is what we do for fall/winter workouts. monday - "funday" 4x 10 mins, I think 2-3 minute rest tuesday - 2x 30 mins, 6 minute break wednesday - 4x 2k not sure on the rest thursday - blasters - 15x 300m, 1 min r...

do some body circuits @ 1 min a piece with 0-10sec rest.

push ups
sit ups
squats
six inches
jumpies
crunches
repeat

also go running.

hope this helped