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What's wrong with rowing harder?

Crossfit is a cult and is whacky. The very fact the word ideology comes up should be a red alert.

For a ribald and open discussion on their training, see:

http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/viewtop ... a&start=25

If you find it uncomfortable or harder to row at a different rate, etc., then there's probably a physiologic reason (fast vs. slow muscle fiber type, lung capacity, strength, body size/mass, etc.). If you are a rank beginner like me, then I would try mixing up protocols frequently. I do not have a ...

Exercise need not be tedious though motivation is certainly a factor, there are no free rides. Many people try to lose weight with the least effort possible, small wonder they fail. Sliding up and down an erg for longer than 15' is probably tedious for most people. As far as least effort possible? ...

Interesting. I'd always read/heard the 'not more than once per week' for weight checks. Studies on weight loss or any other human behavior should be help with skepticism. People who weigh themselves often do tend to lose more weight and keep off than those who do not, but the question becomes: If I...

There was a thread over on the UK forum: http://tinyurl.com/283dk4 Someone should make a sticky thread covering weight loss. Most of the advice you will receive is very conventional: Eat less. Exercise more. Eat less fat. Eat more whole carbs. Sounds great, but doesn't work for most people. We have ...

Are there any good videos on the internet of someone rowing at ~16 spm strapless? I would like to see the recovery being described above. The descriptions are very helpful, but video is worth at least a dozen words.

Jason

6' 3" @ 188# sounds very thin to me. If you want to gain muscle mass and are not an elite specimen of the human race, you will have to eat more, lift heavy weights infrequently, sleep a lot, and move little. Rowing and gaining muscle mass are probably at odds for most people, unless they are freaks ...

Google around and you will see that really no one really knows anything about HR training. Many successful people follow extremely different protocols. Humans are very adaptable. Most of the recommendations on HR training you will find are going to be rather modest. Warming up and cooling down are b...

Congratulations on the weight loss. Over course, the harder part it keeping it off for good. Unless you are trying to attempt extreme morphological change (i. e. bodybuilding style % BF), then IMHO maintaining your weight loss comes down to being honest with yourself every time you eat something. Mi...

Tap, I was with you until your parting shot. When do you consider your body to be compressing while rowing? Bio-mechanically, you decompress on the drive, hence the argument (as I understand it) for inhaling on the drive. In terms of body tension, the compression happens on the drive, hence the argu...