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However, other posters have said that the Power readout of the machine does not change regardless of the SPM/RPM. And this is when I get confused. If you keep a constant energy per stroke, and you increase the stroke rate, your power will increase. There should be no doubt about that. I have a feel...

The question is: how can it be that they complete that given distance at the same time? Wouldn't Rower B finish first since he applied the same power (202.5W) 30 times per minute vs 20? Here, you are confusing power with energy. Power is energy divided by time. Or energy is power multiplied by time...

The answer to your first question is a clear "No". Your pace is directly coupled to power. Actually, the ergometer measures your power and then converts it to pace using a fixed formula. So when you row at for example 100 watt, you will see a pace of 2:31.8, no matter what your stroke rate is. What ...

That's the original reason Paul Smith came up with the meaningless, unitless "SPI" value in the first place. I don't know Paul Smith, but the SPI is certainly not unitless. The unit is WattMinutes per stroke. One WattMinute is 60 Joule. So it is a measure of energy per stroke. Perfectly valid. Howe...

George Bailey wrote: ↑

October 8th, 2020, 4:29 pm

I was told by chat that I really needed to be attempting the update by USB A to B cable (printer cable).

I would have assumed that this was more or less the only B cable available.

Which type of cable did you use, which was not an A to B?

hjs wrote: ↑

October 21st, 2020, 5:16 am

Strapless will not prevent moving forward, if the floor is a bit slippery you will move. And I don’t think that but KNOW for a fact.

I repeat: The OP's problem is that the erg is moving backward. Not forward. Backward. Why is this so difficult to understand?

hjs wrote: ↑

October 20th, 2020, 5:18 am

See the openingspost for this thread. “Cable pushdown” and later on only talk about the triceps.

His question had multiple angles. I replied to one of them, and it should be obvious, which one I replied to.

Makes no difference, with one exception, you can only move forward that way, cause you can’t pull the straps, but still push the erg forward. Errh..? That one exception is actually the whole issue here. The thread starter stated that his erg is moving backwards. I agree to the strapless proposal. T...

hjs wrote: ↑

October 19th, 2020, 3:57 am

Yep, but its not a tricep puldown, its a combined goodmorning plus upperbody push/pull movement.

I was replying to the question of "weight". I assume that the OP will figure out the equivalent strength training exercise himself.

I haven't used ErgData with a SkiErg, but with the RowErg, you can see the average "weight" for each stroke.

The PM3 arm can be used, and I have considered reinstalling it instead of the PM5 arm, because the PM5 arm is somewhat less flexible, so it shudders a little when I row. The only practical difference between the two is that the PM5 arm has a hole through the vertical centre "wall" of the beam. This ...

haven't looked at the watts. Then start doing that. The watts will tell how intensely you row. Your strokes per minute (SPM) will not. There is no fixed relationship between effort and strokes per minute. You can easily row at high SPM and low watts - that is just a question of doing it wrong enoug...

I'm surprised no one (that I saw) mentioned that the damper setting isn't what matters, it's the drag factor. That is simply because neither damper setting nor drag factor is the issue here. You can do almost powerless rowing at any drag factor if you don't try to accelerate the flywheel in every s...

Strategy in mind was to get maximum chain retraction/extension Don't worry too much about that. You problem is probably not how far you pull the chain, but how hard you pull the chain. You can easily do a lot of "chain metres per minute" without feeling much resistance. You just set the flywheel in...

It simply means that the cage around the flywheel is filled with dust, preventing the air circulation. The more you prevent the air circulation, the lower the drag factor will be. The dust does exactly the same as the damper,so it doesn't really matter if you reach your desired drag factor by restri...