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The OP must have literally been doing nothing with upper body during 2 yrs of running. Correct. Zero. My lower back aches like hell this morning, in the past it certainly wouldn't have at such low apparent intensity effort. Now I do the WODs almost every day: short and to the point. James can you c...

Guys thanks a lot for the responses, awesome as always. They, in particular the below 2, all go along the lines that performance in a particular type of exercise isn't all about raw cardiovascular performance, I think my mistake was to believe that with such a low-demand exercise as a 45' row at HR1...

Edit: normally I can run for an hour like a rabbit, with no leg pain whatsoever. And do the same again the following day.

This afternoon after 45' rowing at HR 125 which should be an extremely easy row, the muscles on the top of my legs hurt like hell (google says these are called vastus medialis).

Hi guys, Haven't been posting for a while. Let me explain. Until 2 years ago, all my daily exercise was on the rowing machine. This would include a 45' row at HR 125bpm*, and my performance would be how far I row. In my case, was about 8km. For reasons I don't want to explain, I stopped rowing entir...

iain wrote: ↑

June 21st, 2023, 4:18 am

always in hard middle distances with a sustained push at the end and ending with an all out sprint.

I think this describes quite well dabatey's method to get a MaxHR !

I just want to say that I followed dabatey's method to get a Max HR a few weeks ago and got a number that was significantly higher (7bpm) than the max rate observed in any of my rows, ever. And since then I haven't gotten anywhere close to it again. (My personnal conclusion is that in order to get a...

Any idea what your watts numbers are jkrob? I think doing the calculation: watts/SPM gives us a more apples-to-apples idea of how strong a stroke you’ve got . Your pace from today is much faster than mine, so your watts numbers are probably much higher too. Unfortunately our older PM4 doesn't conne...

iain wrote: ↑

June 16th, 2023, 9:58 am

I would suggest 2:28 starting pace for the 10k.

This 10K row would be double today's and even rowing 4s slower at 2:28, this looks very agressive to me. But ok let me try and see how far I can actually go. Will revert.

Ok so this is interesting because I am precisely 1 week behind fancyoats in the BPP and today was W6S4 for me, 5K. Our numbers aren't dissimilar ! Normally the BPP calls to do this 5K at the same pace as the 7.5K of a few days ago (which was 2:45/500m in my case), but instead today I decided to up t...

Got it, thank you !

These are all intervals, with rest in between - not steady state, right? Thanks for having raised this (this was important !). How did you spot these were intervals, and not the 6km and 7.5km SS of the BPP ? @iain ok thanks for the details of what I have to do. Let me try tomorrow and revert. In fa...

Guys thanks a lot. @aegis thank you very much for the explanation and the data, I think this is exactly what I needed as it lets me see your paces over a long period of time, a year. Judging by your HR (last column I suppose), you are doing these SS at significantly more effort than me ! The other t...

Iain thanks a lot, let me see if I can pick up the pace just a little bit then.
"when we start out we don't know what we are capable of" is indeed what I'm facing now. Need to try.

@fancyoats, can I ask how "intense" you perceived this exercice ? More specifically, do you feel that you could for twice as long, or 16K, at the same pace ? The reason why I'm asking. I am week behind you in the BPP. Sunday and today I did respectively W6S1 and W6S3 (7.5K), with W6S2's intervals ye...

Yes you're right in fact, I am checking the PM's history almost every day for this specific reason. I'm hopeful to notice a strong stroke I could approach. I haven't seen it yet but I keep checking. My sense is that if there was one, I would have seen it by now. It seems I'm the only one who is not ...