ukaserex wrote: ↑April 18th, 2019, 1:03 pm
Regarding the Pete Plan...
It could be my age, or it could be some of the other stuff I do outside of rowing (weights, walking, bike riding) but as I look at the plan, my legs just scream at me for even thinking about doing the 8 reps of 500m more than once a week. Even once a week, they scream in rebellion, as it seems that my legs are never sufficiently recovered.
Maybe I'm getting older...
I thought that UT2 workouts weren't supposed to make the muscles sore, but they do..., at least, they do for me. Is that normal? Or has my HR monitor been lying to me about what my resting & max HR are, and thus throwing everything else off?
Age... really be carefull, above 50 recovery is getting less good. Ut2 work is not super easy, certainly if its low rate stuff.
If you do other work next to rowing, really be carefull, no more than 2 fast sessions.
I myself really notice it, won,t even begin to talk about injurees.

But its a very thin line to stay on.
Also the way you trained, your last 2k, was a nightmare (in my book) but a session like that takes a lot out of you. You also started to do low rate work. Ad it all up...
Really look at, as if you are training someone else, would you let someone do what you do yourself? I totally get it you are pushing yourself, expect you to break 6.30 maybe even more, but use your head. Stay in one piece. You can only train as hard as you can recover...