Get Better Endurance

[[old] brennan]

Does anybody know any pieces that will help you with endurance pretty quickly? Crew starts in a little under 2 weeks and I really need to improve.

[[old] PaulS]

<!--QuoteBegin-brennan+Dec 20 2005, 01:20 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(brennan @ Dec 20 2005, 01:20 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Does anybody know any pieces that will help you with endurance pretty quickly?  Crew starts in a little under 2 weeks and I really need to improve. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Now if you were asking about making some strength gains quickly, there would be some hope, but gaining endurance quickly would be the holy grail of training, if you find that, you will be both rich and famous.<br /><br />That said, with two weeks before Crew starts, I'd focus on 6k-8k pieces at steady paces where it is challenging in the final quarter, but not so hard that technique falls apart. Begin perhaps 10 seconds off your PB for the distance and take 1 second off the target pace each day, hopefully arriving back at your PB pace. Though if you have been out of training completely, this would be very ambitious.<br />

[[old] PaulH]

I'll second what the tastefully named Paul said above, and add that the best thing you could be doing now is getting used to where your current endurance limits are. You're unlikely to move them, but you should be able to get a good idea of your limits at a range of distances so that you can do your best when practice starts - if the coach calls for a 10 minute piece you'll know just how hard to go to cover that 10 minutes.<br /><br />Cheers, Paul

[[old] Rowingrunner]

do long pieces, it may not help you too much by the time the season starts, but it will get you into good shape 2 weeks earlier than if you didn't start at all