Concept2 Forum

Many thanks for all your helpful answers! Must be more patient then, and do UT2 at a slower pace (forgetting the ego). Thanks for your help!

Thank you all, and in particular Iain, what you are saying makes a lot of sense. You shouldn't let your power drop too much when you up the rate, but that requires more fitness, which I obviously don't have at the moment. That's a really interesting way to look at it for me because I always thought ...

Yes, exactly, I’m adding power when raising the rate, because this is what I was taught to do in the boat: get the power down, then let the boat run, spin the hands, rate goes up. No rushing the slides etc. Here, on the erg, I would have to take the power //down// to take up the rate it seems: the o...

Hi, I am not new to rowing but I haven’t done any sports for years and then started training ca. 12 months ago, with rowing added in in September last year. I find that oddly I do better on low rate 2ks and low rate ergs in general. On the higher rate, I simply tend to blow. It got better since I st...

Another (and the last) 5k test! This time, I stayed conservative, going out hard then staying really strictly on 1:49.1-1:49.2 for most of the 5k at rate 28. Thought this was a good strategy because I had a sticky cold for most of December and January and was supposed to do a 5k in January which was...

Thanks a lot! I watched the videos (https://youtu.be/U3HlEF_E9fo) and also the one about how to squat, learned a lot again. I’ll buy a heart rate monitor to make sure I’m not exerting myself too much.

Ok, so this was my first proper 5k test. I did a 4x5 minutes with 90s econds rest at rates 20/22/24/26 a few days before the 5k. This gave me a 1:48.4 average split. From this, I should have my target, said my coach. At the 5k test, I went hard for 5-10 strokes, then settled for about 1:49-1:48. Hel...

Ok, finally got the 5k done at 18:05, 79kg, 27spm.
Trained a lot in “zone 1” for it (2:05-2:10).

Thanks for all those replies. The 5k test has been postponed to another weekend, and my training plan has loads of Zone 1 (2.02-2:16) ergs in it, e.g 3x25 minutes, rate 20, or 2x30 minutes, rate 20, almost every day, apart from weekends, which are on the water. What I wonder is, why, if I am going t...

I have a 5k test coming up and I have done 20 minute tests before at various rate (now doing 20 minutes at 1:49 average, r28). For the 5k test, what I am guessing it that I cannot sustain VO2 max for 20 minutes, even if I wanted to. So which zones should I target during the 5k? E.g. should I erg a T...