WOD's
Posted: August 16th, 2022, 11:36 am
I'd never rowed before in my life prior to about thirty days ago....then, because I was fed up with the local pools and gyms closing or cutting back on hours, I bought an Erg and set it up in my den. I launched into some youtube videos for a couple of weeks, and then got serious and have been downloading, rowing and synching the WOD's on Erg Data since the sixth of August (this month). My first 10K was yesterday (WOD) with an eye-openingly fair-to-poor result based on what others in my age group posted. Due to some injuries earlier in life and some joint degeneration later, I've had two knees and recently one hip totally replaced...because of this, for many years I'd been swimming rather than doing anything else involving gravity. The knees and hip are fully recovered, but I started to notice that I was losing/had lost a lot of muscle mass because of being confined due to pool closures during COVID and having had to wait for my turn for a hip surgery slot to become available. Anyway, within this past month of rowing I've noticed that it's become demonstrably easier to walk and ascend/descend stairs without pain, which is undoubtedly due to muscle strength improvement. Therefore, I'd like to maximize the Concept2 sitting in my tv room to its full potential, using it to rebuild overall muscle strength now, and adding the occasional swim workout when the pool fully reopens in the coming months.
Based on the above, my question is whether or not continuing to do solely the C2 WOD's every day will be sufficient to accomplish my goal to combat/slow down muscle loss, or should I specifically incorporate longer-duration rowing sessions in addition to the WOD's (or, as the C2 site says, just double the WOD)? If I should be adding on, how often of each, etc.? Because rowing is a little bit foreign to me I don't want to screw up making progress.
Full disclosure: I'm turning 69 in a couple of weeks, am 179cms and weigh 90 kilos (5 feet, 10 and 1/2 inches at 198 pounds), neither really fat nor really skinny).
Thanks in advance for any advice.....
Based on the above, my question is whether or not continuing to do solely the C2 WOD's every day will be sufficient to accomplish my goal to combat/slow down muscle loss, or should I specifically incorporate longer-duration rowing sessions in addition to the WOD's (or, as the C2 site says, just double the WOD)? If I should be adding on, how often of each, etc.? Because rowing is a little bit foreign to me I don't want to screw up making progress.
Full disclosure: I'm turning 69 in a couple of weeks, am 179cms and weigh 90 kilos (5 feet, 10 and 1/2 inches at 198 pounds), neither really fat nor really skinny).
Thanks in advance for any advice.....