Wp s indeed much more disciplined, and its important to use a real 2k as a baseline, and start the level4 work from the bottom. The rest is a bit more open, but L3 is certainly not SS work. The L4 is a bit like the SS work. Only rate capped.mdpfirrman wrote:I'm certainly not a Wolverine expert. Quite frankly, the PP (by a lot of people) is seen as a dummied down version of Wolverine. Quantified Rowing is a site that Greg Smith (a frequent contributor to the C2 forums) put together. He has accumulated a LOT of material on the Wolverine plan on that site. All that I could find on Phase 3 is that it's supposed to be 85 to 90% of max 2K effort. That's like the TT day to me on the full PP or an AT row. Phase 4 is supposed to be "generally" 80 to 90% of max 2K effort. The lower the SPM on the Phase 4, it's possible to have the effort more like 70% of max effort (at 18 SPM for instance). The main difference between the plans is Wolverine never allows compromise on the power per stroke on the Phase 4 part of the plan. PP replaces Phase 4 with a MUCH more liberal 3 SS days. Wolverine is discipline to the extreme. Phase 4 is a thing (in my opinion) of beauty, but many people don't have the patience for it (I certainly don't). Where I think the PP is meant to be a sharpening tool, the beauty about the Wolverine Plan is it can be an entire rowing season plan by gradually building the intensity of the Phase 4 rows. Most that try Wolverine go way ahead of themselves on the Phase 4 rows. I usually don't like to talk about Wolverine because there's been some (on here including me) that have been personally chastised about being wrong on the interpretation by "the man" himself. I would like to believe after 3 years of rowing that I understand it better now than I used to (but that's up for debate). Your question might be better to ask others with more experience than me (on perhaps a separate thread). I think there's advantages to keeping speed work (even if not as much as PP) throughout the year. I do like your idea of doing 12 weeks or so with more meters. I'm planning on doing the same. More of a base meter phase (which Phase 4 of the Wolverine is their "base meters") is always a fantastic idea to build up a fantastic aerobic engine. I think it should include one longer day (an hour or longer) per week. I think personally that a day where I do a 90 minute or so row would help me tremendously.ChasinElk wrote:Thanks mike the body bounces back fairly quick from short breaks
I was under the impression the level 3 workouts were SS type rows and the level 4 were very pace specific lower spm?
You can offcourse build a plan like you wish, but the way most rowers use the PP does not work well for the WP. I disagree its complicated, most people simply don,t take the time to read it well.
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