What Training Have You Done Today?

[p_b82]

Thanks PLI, as always, but I need some education.

I can go faster. I have gone faster. In the mid-30s s/m. 2:20/500-ish. I'm not sure how I slow down my stroke rate but go faster. What is UT2? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've watched the videos online and I think I'm doing the technique correctly...

I'll see how I can record myself. I can set up my phone next to me since ErgData goes to the PM5 anyway. But then I'll need to do research to figure out how to load the video here. I still can't load my pictures from my last adventure race, despite starting an imgur account. Sorry, not being stupid. I've figured this out in other forums (from previous sports I've since dropped), but can't seem to here.

Hi Mike,

I've just taken a look at your rows from your log, and it appears that you're not actually putting very much force into your strokes.

23:09.5 3,500m 3:18.5 45 454 26 <single piece
18:00.0 2,860m 3:08.8 52 478 26 <intervals
27:26.3 5,000m 2:44.6 78 569 30 <single piece

I'm not going to tell you what you "should" be generating in terms of power (wattage) as that is very dependent on you and your fitness and strength.

But at low power levels, and high stroke rate - that 5k would fall under that - it is exceptionally inefficient in terms of energy usage.

You are flying up and down the slide, without putting much work through the erg itself - if you were on a bike you'd be in a really easy cog, and your legs would be flying round quickly, but you weren't pushing hard with your legs either. - in this analogy, you'd be better dropping down a cog and pushing harder at a lower rpm to gain more speed (or with swimming arms going really quickly, but you weren't pulling on the downstroke / feathered your fingers etc).

Take a look for "pick drill" videos - it splits the stroke down into the sections of it, and I think you'd probably benefit from focusing on the the drive initially - eg from the catch, lock your core and push with your legs, keep the handle moving with you with straight arms & then you can add the backswing and the finish.
The force curve on the pm5 will print out what your stroke looks like in real time - the height of the curve isn't that important at this stage (the higher, the more force is being applied) but you want it to be smooth as you master each part of the stroke and sequencing.