500 meter Wr attempt

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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by Shawn Baker » December 27th, 2015, 9:18 pm

Ross, I'd say 1k is well within your reach- what are you targeting for your 2k in Boston 5:50?
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by PowerRower » December 27th, 2015, 11:22 pm

5:50 would be sick. Not gonna happen this year. I recently took 13 weeks off from working out entirely. Trying to get back in shape all together again. Ill be very happy to break 6 min in Boston.
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by hjs » December 28th, 2015, 3:39 am

PowerRower wrote:Its all relative to Specialization, Sean. The best athletes in the world play a handful of mainstream sports because thats where the money is. If the money was in rowing you would have different standards.

I am currently doing longer distance stuff. I had to let my back heal a bit. Gonna compete at the Crash B's in late February and then assess the situation after that. I am not far off the 1k WR... I think I will be making a run at that following my Boston Appearance. Hard to get motivated to start sprinting again.
For rowing you don,t need an average athlete, you need a very slow muscle fiber type, those are just like pure sprinters pretty rare. For the short stuff you are right, that is simply never really done, the longer work is relative much stronger. Its not the power but the aerobic side that brings a very strong 2k.

Mainstream sports don,t work well for slow twitch people. Maybe some swimmers of cyclist could do well. Also don,t forget you need height to get enough lean body mass.

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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by Edward4492 » December 28th, 2015, 10:54 pm

I'll be looking forward to watching you pull at CRASH B's Ross. I'm staying over Sunday night so I can hang out all day and watch all of the events, my race will be early am. Plus I'll get to eat while I'm spectating ( the whole LWT thing is a pain in the ass). See you there.

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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by PowerRower » January 4th, 2016, 3:49 pm

Edward please introduce yourself. I shouldn't be to hard to spot. Most certainly will be the fattest guy competing lol.
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by Edward4492 » January 4th, 2016, 10:45 pm

I'll find ya, you'll definitely be one of the strongest!

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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by PowerRower » January 4th, 2016, 11:39 pm

I was lookin at the results from last year... sub 6, should I make it will be very competitive in my age group. My coach is actually faster than me right now, by then he will probably be well under 6 min... id love to be in a position to place in the top 3. Or maybe something crazy happens and I beat everyone in my age group :)
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by cannondalerugby5 » August 9th, 2016, 5:07 pm

Could someone point me towards the rugby player clip
It now cannot be accessed
Interested to know who it was
Thanks
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by cannondalerugby5 » August 10th, 2016, 4:59 am

Thanks remisture,

Bit of a fly and big die but very brave attempt.

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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by lindsayh » August 10th, 2016, 6:35 am

cannondalerugby5 wrote:Thanks remisture
Bit of a fly and big die but very brave attempt.
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Cheers Steve
HI Steve - it was crazy brave though - he had never been trained and had no idea of what to expect and had no one to help him. Amazing brute strength and he is quite the athlete as you can see.
It was the culmination of a series of weekly 1 minute attempts by players and others on a Rugby League TV show (we call it the Footy Show) and no one really understood the difference between his minute (which wasn't really measured properly) and the 500 - some thought that he was a chance without really thinking it through. In the end the 1:16 was pretty good and an age AR I think (our AR is the WR of course) - it was just a pity that it was talked up way too much.
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by cannondalerugby5 » August 10th, 2016, 6:44 am

You really had to feel sorry for the guy Lindsay

As you say so much pressure,probably not the correct prep

Hope he was well rewarded,might have been useful to the audience to select a well know really fit sportsperson,( non rower) I am sure you must have a few over there ! lol

This would have made his time look very respectable.

We had a guy Gareth Archer,ex England second row,pull a 40 age of around 5.48 if I recall ,after only 6 months training,would be interested in his time for the 500m .

Hell of an engine,sat at 1.45 18 for an hour

Of to gym to do my 5 x 5 Dead lifts- bummer
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Re: 500 meter Wr attempt

Post by lindsayh » August 10th, 2016, 7:44 am

cannondalerugby5 wrote:Hope he was well rewarded,might have been useful to the audience to select a well know really fit sportsperson,( non rower) I am sure you must have a few over there Off to gym to do my 5 x 5 Dead lifts- bummer
keep up the weights!
I am pretty sure there was very little in the way of rewards - he is a very highly paid (for us) professional and it would have been regarded as part of his promotional responsibilities I suspect.
Last year they had a similar thing with arm wrestling until one of the huge contestants (fortunately retired from football) snapped his humerus on national TV with a loud crack!
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