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I own all three machines and TBH they each play a role in my overall fitness. I go through periods of using each machine to achieve various goals and targets. If I had to choose only one though it would be the SkiErg as I spend too much time seated at work and at home. The SkiErg works the major mus...

Maybe forget about heart rate rate and go by RPE.

Get your technique right + follow a proper structured training plan with varying intensity and progressive overload. Heart rate will look after itself.

Thanks, really interesting to hear about your 2k journey as a LW. That's a huge improvement going from 7:19 to 6:58, the training really paid off! It definitely sounds like I need to do more speed work, especially longer intervals such as 4 x 1000. It's manageable for me to to do SS sessions on the...

I'm still chasing that elusive 7min 2k, which is probably easy for a young, tall, HW, but not for this ageing, not very tall, LW. I'm doing 4 x SS sessions per week and 1 x high intensity intervals, but curious to know what sort of 1k time I'd be looking at to put me in the ballpark of a 7min 2k. M...

On Saturday morning I set a target of maintaining a sub-2-minute pace per 500 meters on the SkiErg over a half marathon distance. Based on previous 10/12k's and a 60-minute session at this pace I was fairly confident that with proper pacing, hydration and nutrition I could do it. I set the splits at...

Set out to complete todays SkiErg WOD in under 19mins but felt OK after 3k so increased the pace. Shaved a little of my previous PB Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 18:49.1 5,000m 1:52.9 243 1136 51 179 3:48.5 1,000m 1:54.2 235 1107 51 168 3:47.8 2,000m 1:53.9 237 1115 51 175 3:46.9 3,000m 1:53.4 2...

I've logged 502 training activities in calendar year 2023 for a duration of 322hrs Cycling 1898 km Running 816 km RowErg & SkiErg 755 km [ SkiErg was bulk of this total ] Strength training 38 hrs Cardio Circuits 71 hrs Bit of a mixed bag but managed to train fairly consistently throughout the year. ...

5K down to 19:21.7 from 19:36.5. Guess 12C instead of 31C helps :) Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M HR 19:21.7 5,000m 1:56.1 223 1068 28 173 1:55.7 500m 1:55.7 226 1077 29 159 1:55.6 1,000m 1:55.6 227 1079 29 168 1:55.8 1,500m 1:55.8 225 1075 28 169 1:55.3 2,000m 1:55.3 228 1085 29 173 1:55.7 2,50...

I did a mile (1609mtrs) at 1:43.5 before I committed to going for a sub 7min 2k. It stung, but that little bit of confidence helped a few days later when I finally went for the 2k.

Your numbers look to be thereabouts so no choice now but to give it a bash

Good luck!

Finally broke 18 min for the 5k. Gym was kind of hot so I probably should have rowed this at home. Was pretty gassed throughout and it wasn’t my best day, but a PB is a PB and a milestone is a milestone! 17:56.3 5,000m 1:47.6 281 1266 27 3:35.0 1,000m 1:47.5 282 1269 27 3:36.4 2,000m 1:48.2 276 125...

I can't disagree on what works for you, of course, but I kind of disagree on everything else (except bending at the waist, that's a given). These are not exactly crossfitters ("Longdistance cross country ski team from Sweden"): [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAe9O2AM2YM[/youtube] [youtube...

Very pleased by how complementary it is with respect to the RowErg: upper body + abs + calves. After only 1 month (56Km at a snail avg pace of 2:32/500m) I now have abs muscles I didn't have before. To the point it feels weird/unusual when I'm sitting in from of my PC. Interesting. Still considerin...

Hi all, I finally managed to buy a 2nd hand SkiErg, now sitting right next to a RowErg in my garage. For the time being, I use the SkiErg only as warm-up & cool-down in 3 out of 4 of my weekly rowing sessions, typically 10min warm-up and 10min cool-down. Only other workouts I've tried on the SikErg...

Finally sub 7 in the 2km, paced it awfully but got there. Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M 6:59.5 2,000m 1:44.8 303 1344 29 179 1:43.5 500m 1:43.5 316 1386 29 171 1:44.3 1,000m 1:44.3 308 1361 29 179 1:45.5 1,500m 1:45.5 298 1325 29 183 1:46.2 2,000m 1:46.2 292 1305 29 184 Sweet 😋 Congratulations ...

Why worry about having to take it easy on the prescribed easy days? This is a challenging enough plan with plenty of hard work to do on key workout days without over doing it on recovery days. After spending 90mins alternating between 10k pace, MP and HMP I was more than happy to take it easy the fo...