Fan settings for 30 min test

[Carl Watts]

Yes but without a screen shot of the actual drag on the monitor that still covers quite a range of possibilities.

Basically as Hjs said above a setting in the 2 to 3 range.

Still good information to have, gives you a zone on where the drag should be for someone heavyweight and a bit of height, that's along way from whacking the damper up to 10 on a new erg.

[Bob S.]

Probably is the right word and I wouldn't take that for a fact, like any form of competition its hard to get the truth and your just as likely to get a bum steer that points you in the wrong direction, people at the top of their game are very competitive by nature and want to stay there so handing out free advice is not the norm.

It doesn't seem likely that the top sculler in the world would worry much about giving free advice on rowing on a machine. I don't think that the photo Lindsay mentioned was of the actual WR time trial. I the that it was done at a WIRC event in which he did something like 6:45 or so. He was easily far ahead of the competition and may have been just horsing around when he set it at a low drag.

[hjs]

Yes but without a screen shot of the actual drag on the monitor that still covers quite a range of possibilities.

Basically as Hjs said above a setting in the 2 to 3 range.

Still good information to have, gives you a zone on where the drag should be for someone heavyweight and a bit of height, that's along way from whacking the damper up to 10 on a new erg.

Races are often on new machines, and the setting is open to see. I do now though that rowers not overly worry about, most of their meters are in a boat where you don,t know the drag. But using both a good stroke and high drag simply gives to fast a stroke for good rowers. Simply not sustainable aerobicly.
I myself sometimes put the drag up high, and find it difficult not to go low 1.40 at the slowest, which is ofcourse way to fast for normal erging for me.