Trying To Get Back Into It...

[[old] The Dude Abides]

Hit my million meter mark and quickly realized that once you get close to hitting your goals you need to set new ones because once you reach your goals you have nothing to work for and you can fall flat on your face.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm trying to get back into rowing, as the past few weeks I have been working a lot with Russian Kettlebells, doing HOC training.<br /><br />Rowing 10 mins the past couple of nights has been a royal pain in the butt. <br /><br />Can anyone help me get refocused and get the mentality back when i rowed 400k in August?<br /><br />-Drew

[[old] Xeno]

<!--QuoteBegin-The Dude Abides+Nov 22 2005, 10:05 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(The Dude Abides @ Nov 22 2005, 10:05 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Hit my million meter mark and quickly realized that once you get close to hitting your goals you need to set new ones because once you reach your goals you have nothing to work for and you can fall flat on your face.<br /><br />Anyway, I'm trying to get back into rowing, as the past few weeks I have been working a lot with Russian Kettlebells, doing HOC training.<br /><br />Rowing 10 mins the past couple of nights has been a royal pain in the butt.  <br /><br />Can anyone help me get refocused and get the mentality back when i rowed 400k in August?<br /><br />-Drew <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Do you use the slide by concept2?<br />They make rowing a greater joy.<br />Try rowing four minutes and then two minutes of technique exercises and so on. It is all a matter of breaking down your routine. Before you know it you will have spent forty minutes on the ergo. Or check out what you can eat the more calories you burn. This last one of course is not so exciting because a simple candy bar can blow 10Ks, AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[[old] John Rupp]

Doing yoga before rowing helps to relieve the stress and tension in your butt.<br /><br />When you start to get tight, then stop and do some more stretching, then continue on and row more.<br /><br />Examples are toe touching with legs straight<br />toe touching with legs bent<br />hands and feet on floor arching up<br />then arching down<br />first with legs straight <br />then slightly bent<br />then bent more<br />standing back up and repeating<br />laying on back and lifting legs straight one at a time<br />then with legs slightly bent<br />try different positions and see what helps to loosen your legs the most.

[[old] parish]

I started rowing again a couple of months ago after ~2.5 year break. I too have been a bit frustrated by my progress relative to what I could do when I stopped. So far I've managed to stay motivated by keeping a detailed log of my rows, which is made much easier now that I've upgraded to a PM3. I log information like time, distance, target vs actual split times, heart rate details, and perceived vs actual exertion. I also note anything unusual about the row like if I had 4 cups of coffee right before or had eaten only an hour before, things like that. Reviewing my log I can see that I'm making progress, albeit gradual progress, and that keeps me going. Of course YMMV; I was trained as a physical scientist and keeping logs is what we do...<br /><br />Of course I probably shouldn't be offering advice to someone who rowed 400K m in a month! My peak has never been more than 250-300K m in a month.<br /><br />Daniel<br />

[[old] mpukita]

Try/buy RowPro and train and race online. It will give you motivation through competition and the (online) training partner companionship that can help with staying committed.<br /><br />Consider setting the goal of racing at one of the events coming up in January/February. See:<br /><br /><a href='http://www.concept2.com/05/training/com ... lendar.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.concept2.com/05/training/com ... asp</a><br /><br />Choose a target time and set a training plan to achieve it!

[[old] The Dude Abides]

I'd totally buy row pro but I have a Mac...