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I just replaced my chest strap .. now I have the newer polarmate which you can replace the batteries on...<br /><br />however i'm still getting spotty reception.. sometimes....<br /><br />the transmitter, velcro'd underneath the rower.. does that have a batttery in it? does that need replacing too?<...

mine floats all the time - I live on a houseboat <br /><br /><a href='http://64.166.154.27/c2' target='_blank'>Aaron's Floating Erg</a><br /><br />now i just need to connect the flywheel to a propellor ....<br /><br /><br /><!--QuoteBegin-c2bill+Apr 18 2005, 10:40 AM--><table border='0' align='cente...

taking your advice... i'm holding it steady at 150-155 for 45 mins now... 20spm ... <br />just noticed i've lost over 15lbs since jan .. so i think i'm on the right track. much fitter anyway. will push for 60mins but that's soo boring... might do 30mins in the morning and 30 at night to break the mo...

i don't have a death grip on the handle - a very light grip actually. My mistake was to get in the habit of wearing sailing gloves while erging.. and the callouses have been building up where the fingertip-less gloves bunch up..<br />

from all my daily erging i'm starting to get quite big callouses building up on my fingers .. and they are pretty annoying. Are there any tips for getting rid of them? some magic solution to soak in for example? Or just break out the stanley knife?

well my goal right now is to loose weight, so my understanding was that i should be keeping my HR lower.. in the 'LS' range on RowPro? It says for me that's 109-136 .. so I usually try to sit there around 130-136 ... 18spm ... 30mins... 2.20-2.25<br /><br />today i did my first 60min piece... avg HR...

i used to go to the 'Danske Studenter Roklub' .. i forget the exact location but it's on the S-TOG line (that's the metro train) ... they've got a decent gym & plenty of ergs... cheap too.. (well this was 10 yrs ago)...<br />then there's the Bagsverd rowing club further north where all the serious r...

i've noticed many people here proudly (and rightly so) list their best scores on the erg in their signatures...<br />eg: 6000m 21min<br /><br />but few if any tell us what their average spm was.....<br /><br />Q: does it matter?<br /><br />for me...i find it harder to row at lower spm's than higher ...

i'm pushing 39 yrs of age, 6ft, 215 lbs.. haven't rowed competetievely for 10yrs now... i'm wondering how i'm doing in terms of fitness...<br /><br />I'm closing in on a 1/2 million meters on the erg ... <br /><br />my typical *almost* daily workout is 30 mins @ 2.25, 18spm ... HR hovers around 138 ...

yeah that sounds about right - i'm just not very good at describing it in words..<br />maybe it's not really the cause of blisters but i still think the idea of 'spring-loaded' grips is an interesting one.... <br /><br /><br /><br />When I'm sculling, the handle is completely rotation free on the dr...

yes well thats the 60,000 dollar question i suppose... <br /><br />when you're at the catch you have the blade in the water and hence there is natural resistance to rotation.. so you can do a solid pull ... so maybe some sort of spring-loaded grips would be needed... ie they naturally spring back to...

i've got the upgraded erg handle, which is great but i think it could be better. I find that when rowing on an erg with a fixed handle, I get bad blisters... maybe because of my natural tendancy to feather the handle slightly during each stroke. Obviously as the handle is fixed, my fingers just tend...

if straps weren't required, you wouldn't find them in rowing boats. I can ride my bike with no hands but that doesn't mean its a good idea..<br /> <br />

does anyone know if any of the timex ironman HR chest straps work with the C2 reciever?<br /><br /><a href='http://www.feedthehabit.com/timex/helix_ironman.html' target='_blank'>http://www.feedthehabit.com/timex/helix ... tml</a><br /><br />

the exact same thing has started happening to me since I installed RowPro .. at first i thought it was the TV .. i switched that off and it seemed to work for a bit, but later .. same thing.<br />I've had my chest belt for a number of years now so the battery might be on the fritz... i was consideri...