Concept2 Forum

Hi, recently I've been trying to pull a 1:30 at 20spm. The closest I've gotten is 1:35/20spm after a couple tries. I'm wondering, is there any lightweight that can do this?

In terms of power, if you "muscle-up" technique be damned and maybe top out the drag factor, I'm sure you can probably do it. But what's the purpose? A low pull for a single stroke really serves no function in training outside bragging rights at the post race bar. A better test of power and endurance is 30'@20. You can search the logbook site for records and recent rankings of lightweights in your age category for an idea of what's been possible.

A 90s 500 means 480 W. If the net stroke length is 1.2m, this amount of work requires an average handle force of 120 kg: 120g x 1.2 x 20/60= 480, writing g=10 rather than 9.81m/s².

I've never tried for lowest split... In college we would occasionally start out a land practice with a pyramid series (10 strokes, 20, 30, 40, 30, 20, 10) at a 16, going for max average power each time.

But the shortest piece I've done at a 20 is 2K, which I averaged 1:43 for. I doubt I could get down to 1:30 either though... even for the sprint in that piece I don't think the split went below 1:38 or so.