Heart Rate

[[old] richkrz]

Hi everyone,<br /><br />I'm finding it difficult to get my heart rate up into the training zone (seems my body is too sluggish first thing in the morning, when I erg). I try to get it up to 120-130, for about 30minutes, but really struggle to get it above 115. However, when I ride my bike/indoor trainer, I can get my heart rate up to 135+ without a problem. I do warm up for at least five minutes, and have a piece of fruit a half hour before I start.<br /><br />(Some extra info... I'm 35, male 6'3", 190lbs., erging for general health, and not weight loss). <br /><br />Any suggestions?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Rich

[[old] PaulS]

Your heart is only going to respond to some kind of demand to supply blood to the body (or certain psychological stimuli), so just Erg at a faster pace to get an increase in HR.<br /><br />The secondary issue is probably not something we can discuss, as this is a family show.

[[old] Dannyb]

Hey there, I have the same problem but in the opposite way. Erging is no problem but cycling, Im killing myself trying to get my HR up. I would guess that cycling is your main focus. When you do cardio in a certain way, your body adapts to that and it makes anyother activity a bit tough to get used to. Like anything to do with erging and cardio, the only thing that will help with it is time on the erg. <br /><br /><!--QuoteBegin-richkrz+Feb 23 2005, 08:33 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(richkrz @ Feb 23 2005, 08:33 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hi everyone,<br /><br />I'm finding it difficult to get my heart rate up into the training zone (seems my body is too sluggish first thing in the morning, when I erg).  I try to get it up to 120-130, for about 30minutes, but really struggle to get it above 115.  However, when I ride my bike/indoor trainer, I can get my heart rate up to 135+ without a problem.  I do warm up for at least five minutes, and have a piece of fruit a half hour before I start.<br /><br />(Some extra info... I'm 35, male 6'3", 190lbs., erging for general health, and not weight loss).  <br /><br />Any suggestions?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Rich <br /> </td></tr></table><br />

[[old] jamesg]

RK<br />On the bike, you have no choice, given the length of the crank and the slope of the road. <br />On the erg we decide everything: length of pull, force on the handle, rating. My guess is you are pulling short. If you pull hard and long, I think your problem will be keeping the HR down, not up. So back to technique. Watch the Watts. Anything less than 2W/kg and 10W/stroke means you are idling. UT2 goes up to 2.3W/kg, rating 20.

[[old] Physicist]

<!--QuoteBegin--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->On the bike, you have no choice, given the length of the crank and the slope of the road. </td></tr></table><br /><br />Gear? Cadence? (and their more obvious product - speed?)

[[old] FrancoisA]

I see two (not mutually exclusive) possible reasons why you can not maintain high HR for long row.<br /><br />1) You are new to rowing and therefore your lactate threshold is low.<br />2) Your technique is somewhat deficient; i.e. your are not using some major group muscles to their capacity.<br /><br />Only time (and training!) will remedy to problem 1).<br />Given your age, weight and height, you should be able to hold a 1:55 pace quite easily for rows of 30 minutes. If this is not the case then you should work on technique: rowing strapless, 10 meters per stroke, 20 spm, damping factor around 105.

[[old] dakine]

Hi there,<br /><br />I'm new to the forum.<br /><br />I have question about wether certain workouts i do can cause more damage then good.<br /><br />I've been regularly training now for 5 months. Been pushing myself pretty hard.<br />mix with weights, running and rowing.<br /><br />I just did a 5k row in 20:56 at an average of 205 , spm30. My heart rate average was 192bpm.<br />I have an approx MHR of 205 and RHR of around 60-70.although ive registered its lowest at 47. <br />I'm 34 and weigh 62kg.<br />Most of my workouts are in the AT range. i tend to like working in this range as workouts between 140-160 i get the shakes and feel weak.<br /><br />I wanted to know if i was actually causing more harm than good continually working my heart rate so high?<br /><br />Any advice would be appreciated.<br /><br />