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Has anyone been following the suggested workouts? If so, how easy or difficult have they been for you? I expected the first three workouts to get progressively harder, but actually they've been easier, at least for me.<br /><br />3 x 20min. This is similar to what I've been doing about twice a week, 60min @20spm. But this time I lowered the stroke rate to 18 spm and kept the same pace (1:58), which really drained me. I slept well that night!<br /><br />4 x 10min 4-3-2-1. This happens to be a Wolverine Plan workout that I've done in the past, so I knew exactly how to pace it (1:38 reference pace). It wasn't that bad, but I don't have the strength to go any faster. In the future I'll try to keep the stroke rates more accurate - the 18 spm piece ends up being 19 spm more often than not.<br /><br />2 x 20min 1:30/0:30. I took a guess and used the pace I can do 2 x 4000m in (1:48) and tried to keep 24 spm. Starting and stopping all the time made the workout feel like it never got started - it was broken up too much. It's not quite the same as 8 x 500, which is more intense but with more rest, but not like a continuous row, either. Maybe after a few tries my time will start to go down, though for me 24 spm @1:46 is probably my limit for a workout like this. I'd rather do this as a 2 x 15min continuous session, and I bet I can just about match the pace, even without any rest. Next week I'll throw in some 26 spm segments to make it a little harder.

<!--QuoteBegin-DougB+Jul 13 2005, 10:12 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(DougB @ Jul 13 2005, 10:12 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Has anyone been following the suggested workouts?  If so, how easy or difficult have they been for you?  I expected the first three workouts to get progressively harder, but actually they've been easier, at least for me.<br /><br />3 x 20min.  This is similar to what I've been doing about twice a week, 60min @20spm.  But this time I lowered the stroke rate to 18 spm and kept the same pace (1:58), which really drained me.  I slept well that night!<br /><br />4 x 10min 4-3-2-1.  This happens to be a Wolverine Plan workout that I've done in the past, so I knew exactly how to pace it (1:38 reference pace).  It wasn't that bad, but I don't have the strength to go any faster.  In the future I'll try to keep the stroke rates more accurate - the 18 spm piece ends up being 19 spm more often than not.<br /><br />2 x 20min 1:30/0:30.  I took a guess and used the pace I can do 2 x 4000m in (1:48) and tried to keep 24 spm.  Starting and stopping all the time made the workout feel like it never got started - it was broken up too much.  It's not quite the same as 8 x 500, which is more intense but with more rest, but not like a continuous row, either.  Maybe after a few tries my time will start to go down, though for me 24 spm @1:46 is probably my limit for a workout like this.  I'd rather do this as a 2 x 15min continuous session, and I bet I can just about match the pace, even without any rest.  Next week I'll throw in some 26 spm segments to make it a little harder. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Doug,<br />I haven't tried them yet, I'm currently training for Masters World Games, and just about to start my taper.<br /><br />However...It would seem to me that these training sessions would be similar to a UT2 type of pace (UK training plan). I may be wrong however. Mike...Tom...want to comment on that?<br /><br />Dwayne<br />

<!--QuoteBegin-dadams+Jul 14 2005, 08:25 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(dadams @ Jul 14 2005, 08:25 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin-DougB+Jul 13 2005, 10:12 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(DougB @ Jul 13 2005, 10:12 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Has anyone been following the suggested workouts?  If so, how easy or difficult have they been for you?  I expected the first three workouts to get progressively harder, but actually they've been easier, at least for me.<br /><br />3 x 20min.  This is similar to what I've been doing about twice a week, 60min @20spm.  But this time I lowered the stroke rate to 18 spm and kept the same pace (1:58), which really drained me.  I slept well that night!<br /><br />4 x 10min 4-3-2-1.  This happens to be a Wolverine Plan workout that I've done in the past, so I knew exactly how to pace it (1:38 reference pace).  It wasn't that bad, but I don't have the strength to go any faster.  In the future I'll try to keep the stroke rates more accurate - the 18 spm piece ends up being 19 spm more often than not.<br /><br />2 x 20min 1:30/0:30.  I took a guess and used the pace I can do 2 x 4000m in (1:48) and tried to keep 24 spm.  Starting and stopping all the time made the workout feel like it never got started - it was broken up too much.  It's not quite the same as 8 x 500, which is more intense but with more rest, but not like a continuous row, either.  Maybe after a few tries my time will start to go down, though for me 24 spm @1:46 is probably my limit for a workout like this.  I'd rather do this as a 2 x 15min continuous session, and I bet I can just about match the pace, even without any rest.  Next week I'll throw in some 26 spm segments to make it a little harder. <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Doug,<br />I haven't tried them yet, I'm currently training for Masters World Games, and just about to start my taper.<br /><br />However...It would seem to me that these training sessions would be similar to a UT2 type of pace (UK training plan). I may be wrong however. Mike...Tom...want to comment on that?<br /><br />Dwayne <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Dwayne,<br /><br />That's correct, UT2 should be the focus at this time of year, unless you are racing this summer. So lots of longer, lighter pieces with some power (i.e. 90") and AT. <br /><br />I hope that helps,<br /><br />Tom<br />

Until yesterday I'd been at nationals in Indianapolis for a week, and before that 2-a-day water workouts to prepare for nationals. So because of that, I hadn't been keeping up much erging. But last week just before nationals I did a 20 minute averaging 2:02, and today I did a 30 minute averaging 2:04.5. It's ncie getting back on the erg, but I hope to develop a good arobic background with medium-intensity steady states, soon I'll work it up to 40 and 60 minutes. Also I plan on alternating short workouts (such at the suggested 4 by 10 minute) with these longer pieces. How about everyone else?