General discussion on Training. How to get better on your erg, how to use your erg to get better at another sport, or anything else about improving your abilities.
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hikeplusrow
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by hikeplusrow » March 5th, 2024, 6:22 pm
robhely wrote: ↑March 5th, 2024, 5:40 pm
iain wrote: ↑March 5th, 2024, 4:30 am
I'm sure that you could with a high enough rating. For a sprint you are working mainly anaerobically and so breathing once per stroke if fine. The snaking chain is disconcerting but ultimately works and holding sub-1:30 at R60+ isn't that impressive. That said, for a sensible start to a shorter piece >200m not sure if that kind of start would help as it is very inefficient.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the "snaking chain"? I'm aware that to get below 1:30 in a sprint would probably involve short, ugly strokes to start off.
It's basically where the recovery sequence of the stroke is too fast to ensure a level chain retraction. Essentially the speed of the recovery overtakes the chain, and leads to it slackening or snaking.