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since it looks we are both logged on right now...<br /><br /><br />i am going against the grain by saying this, but i suggest doing long pieces at steady low rate.<br />by long i mean over 10 km and by steady low rate i mean around 21 spm covering about 10 m/stroke.<br />no straps.<br /><br />while ...

<!--quoteo(post=58910:date=Mar 10 2006, 08:32 AM:name=braveheart007)--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(braveheart007 @ Mar 10 2006, 08:32 AM) </b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Got a bit of a challange here at w...

the fastest rowers at this year's world indoor rowing championships were all about 2 m.<br />check for yourself in the section showing photos from the event available at concept 2's website.<br />benton, the fastest man of the year, is about 2 mand over 100 kg (he is the man in the very last photos ...

i have been using indoor football shoes for the past few years.<br />i like them because they have a relatively (to most other gym shoes one can find in a sport store) low and even sole.<br />

while we wait for chad to disclose to the incontrovertible information on how dwayne adams fooled concept II into buying him an all paid vacation to europe (twice!), i thought of a little limerick..<br /><br />there once was a fellow named dwayne<br />who posted scores increasingly inane<br />when a...

<!--quoteo(post=55943:date=Feb 15 2006, 11:48 AM:name=ancho)--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(ancho @ Feb 15 2006, 11:48 AM) </b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>How didn't I read this thread before?<br /><br />O...

i think it depends what you mean by 'cheating'.<br /><br />in all sports i can think of cheating is considered a performance that is achieved with the aid of illegal substances ingested by the athlete or by the use of illegal equipment or by simply not abiding to the rules of the discipline.<br /><b...

has anyone seen pictures of the russian boxing heavyweight champion of the world?<br /><br />he's huge: 2.14 m tall and 150 kg!!<br /><br />i bet he could break 7 minutes on the erg for 2000m (especially if he tried 4 times..) <br /><br /><br />

<!--QuoteBegin-Wiecher+Jan 28 2006, 09:38 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Wiecher @ Jan 28 2006, 09:38 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I have to say a real impressive result, what a ...

chad (if that's your real name), i don't know what you can pull for 2000m, but we all know that d.adams has never broken 7' in a race, so, even on the off chance he shows up to compete in boston (i would take odds 100 to 1 that he doesn't), it won't be him you'll have to worry about.<br /><br />7 mi...

This is a question for C2Bill.<br />Please answer on this thread if you have the time.<br /><br />Is it possible for you to verify that the 2000 m piece was rowed by only one person?<br /><br />A couple of years ago at a concept 2 qualifying event several national team members split in 2 teams of 4 ...

why can't we all just get along???<br /><br />..and in that spirit, let's start with some points we can all agree on:<br /><br />1. d.adams posted time of 5'47" is EXTRAORDINARY, and i do mean it in upper case letters. if you know what the fastest guys around pull, and i mean those guys in their phy...

16 km at 1:48.9 @ 22 spm.<br /><br />had 4 non rowing days around christmas, so legs felt very rested, at least for a while...

in rowing (and erging) rate is a factor that affects speed.<br />there is no optimum rate that applies to everybody, but if you want to go faster (cover same distance in less time) you should row closer to 30 spm than 15 spm.<br /><br />do we all agree on this?<br /><br />however, rating too high wi...

sophie balmary completed 2000 m in 6'28" during her test for the french national team.<br /><br />according to the article on the fisa web site balmary trains on the erg only once a week for about one hour at 18 spm.<br /><br />since she is france's national team sculler, she probably trains every d...