LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

Starts tomorrow! Ready...set....

Welcome to new teammate Paul C! We wish you many good erging sessions and lots of camaraderie!

Meanwhile, back on the bike erg and slowly working my way back to desired time on the erg...then I'll work on speed to cover specific distances! I see that we now have 12 bike ergers...or 12 who mix bike erg in with other ergs. Good deal!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.2 MM Greg F
700 K Kenneth
650 K Howard
600 K Norma ....wowzer...Shaun's really zipping along!
450 K Paul C
150 K Gary

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 135 Lunies on the roster!!

Terry 1,000 m
David T 3,000 m
Candace 3,699 m
Maria L-G 4,000 m
Gary 4,013 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Rick 6,109 m
Eric 6,722 m
K2 6,894 m
Howard 11,013 m
Rich Mc 11,534 m
Jim C 12,000 m
Norma 1..2...3...2...1 m...a count em up and down palindrome!
Ian 12,583 m
Minnie 16,458 m
Ron 17,171 m ...a palindrome!
Greg F 28,874 m...he moons us...on his bike erg!
Kenneth 80,000 m... great update!

[Kona2]

Day 1 of 31...and so it begins!!

Lunie Fall Challenge Team ... 17th in the rankings at this moment. Could change by the time this posting is complete.

We have 54 teammates signed on for the Fall Team Challenge. Teams are allowed to add teammates until September 30...and then the rosters close. Some say that the real Challenge begins on October 1st when the teams are "set" and everybody goes all out to best the other teams. Here in the US, the Challenge is only a few hours old. We have meter contributions from some of our teammates who are on the other side of the International Date Line and from some of our European and east coast Lunies. The rest of us are still working on coffee and REM sleep!

For teammates who need or want an individual component to the team challenge, well there is one! There is a team ranking and there is an individual ranking. Some teammates challenge themselves to be in the top ten percent of all participants...and some challenge themselves to be in the top ten. Right now to be in the top 10 percent, you'd need greater than 18750 m in your Fall Team Challenge meter piggybank. It's a commitment. Do what you can, when you can.

Welcome back to Mikkel !

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.55 MM Ed
2.05 MM Ron
1.25 MM Greg
600 K Louie
450 K Ted
350 K Marcos

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 136 Lunies on the year round roster!

Tombeur 2,030 m
David T 3,500 m
Liz 3,891 m
Norton 4,506 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Jeff D 5,037 m
Kevin Mc 6,324 m
Paul C 6,440 m
Louie m ... a devil of a palindrome!
Maria L-G 7,000 m
Doug 7,225 m
Steve H 7,525 m
Karin 8,000 m
Tom R 9,550 m
Tom M 10,000 m
Steve W 10,430 m
Rich Mc 10,757 m
Ted 13,000 m
Mikkel 15,323 m
Minnie 16,142 m
Ron 17,315 m
Greg F 28,502 m
Ed m ...he moons us with this palindrome!
Marcos 57,259 m ...a tsunami of meters with this update!

[Edscapade]

Whoop, whoop and way to make ANOTHER million meters! Congratulations, Ron, on achieving a TWO million meter erging season...and there's lots of time left! We wish you many, MANY more millions!

Congratulations Ron IMPRESSIVE!!!

[TallErgs]

Good luck to everybody for the challenge - I hope it's a fun, injury-free month!

[just27]

Good luck to everybody for the challenge - I hope it's a fun, injury-free month!

An excellent wish. Thanks!

[SweatSlide]

Any advice on ramping up training? I am almost to 3 months of consistent training, but I am closer to 160k meters per month. I'd really like to make 200k, should I be worried about the increase in meters. Honestly, my body isn't giving me great feedback... My legs feel great (I'm a former runner), but the upper body is definitely on the learning curve.

My gut is telling me to concentrate on slow and steady, but I see so many things online that say if you aren't rowing 2:00/500m then you aren't trying (I'm a mid to late 30's male that has a relatively athletic background).

Maybe I'm just complaining, but hey, that's why I joined a group.

[Kona2]

Any advice on ramping up training? I am almost to 3 months of consistent training, but I am closer to 160k meters per month. I'd really like to make 200k, should I be worried about the increase in meters. Honestly, my body isn't giving me great feedback... My legs feel great (I'm a former runner), but the upper body is definitely on the learning curve.

My gut is telling me to concentrate on slow and steady, but I see so many things online that say if you aren't rowing 2:00/500m then you aren't trying (I'm a mid to late 30's male that has a relatively athletic background).

Maybe I'm just complaining, but hey, that's why I joined a group.

We have quite a few who will chime in over the next day or so, but I’ll start the answer/advice. Don’t worry about what things online say. It really depends on what your workout goal happens to be. One of the best ways for me to improve the split time actually turned out to be more about form - and how much I was using my legs...and that I wasn’t really using them optimally during the drive segment. I also wasn’t bringing the erg handle into a good finish. Those two things made a lot of difference.

[SweatSlide]

We have quite a few who will chime in over the next day or so, but I’ll start the answer/advice. Don’t worry about what things online say. It really depends on what your workout goal happens to be. One of the best ways for me to improve the split time actually turned out to be more about form - and how much I was using my legs...and that I wasn’t really using them optimally during the drive segment. I also wasn’t bringing the erg handle into a good finish. Those two things made a lot of difference.

Thanks so much for the reply. Did rowing more meters help or hurt your form?

I've been trying to study rowing and erging to make sure I don't go too far down a path with poor technique. I try to maintain a focus on form: legs, core, arms...stroke around 20-24. My form is crap compared to ideal because I'm working on fully engaging my full core through the stroke. It's difficult to know when I'm compromising form for speed because I get going on the erg and I wanna just keep pushing.

Really, I'm looking for reinforcement that I need to slow down and just sit on the erg and row. Trying to not overthink the bump in meters.

[Kona2]

Thanks so much for the reply. Did rowing more meters help or hurt your form?

I've been trying to study rowing and erging to make sure I don't go too far down a path with poor technique. I try to maintain a focus on form: legs, core, arms...stroke around 20-24. My form is crap compared to ideal because I'm working on fully engaging my full core through the stroke. It's difficult to know when I'm compromising form for speed because I get going on the erg and I wanna just keep pushing.

Really, I'm looking for reinforcement that I need to slow down and just sit on the erg and row. Trying to not overthink the bump in meters.

Does rowing more meters help or hurt your form? Yes and no. When you get tired, one of the things that happens is that your form slips. Bumping up your session meters by adding what is probably less than 8 minutes to your session shouldn't change things too much either way.

Not going to give the reinforcement. If your goal is 200K per month, figure out how many meters you need to row per session to get to that number. Then don't overthink what you're doing. The time it takes to complete your session (especially if it is the same number of meters) is going to improve. You can always set the display to highlight your split times and work on a 3-5 percent improvement of that split time for a week or two. You might not get there every single session, but you will get there. If you say your form is crap compared to ideal...well, I think your full core will get engaged without changing from the ideal.

[Kona2]

Day 2 of 31...and we're 4th !!

We were in 2nd a few minutes ago - and this just highlights how fluid everything is in this Challenge as more teams and teammates get going. The Lunies have 69 teammates on the Challenge Team roster. There's always room for more! If you are working on an additional individual goal of being in the top ten percent of all participants...the number you need to meet or exceed today (at this moment) is 16,250 m. Naturally that will change as the day goes onward!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.6 MM Ed
2.2 MM Warnie
1.05 MM Minnie
850 K danwho
550 K Tom M
500 K Paul C ...a cool half million!
350 K Donna
250 K Charles B - welcome!
200 K Liz
150 K Stuart

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us! 138 Lunies on the roster with the return of Victor, and joining of Charles B!

Victor 1,250 m
Tombeur 3,054 m
Tom R 4,483 m
Candace 4,560 m
Jessica 5,000 m
Maria L-G 5,000 m
Ryan 5,000 m
Jeff D 5,083 m
David T 6,000 m
Kevin Mc 6,085 m
Thor 6,160 m
Doug 7,055 m
Todd 7,366 m
Karin 8,000 m
Bernie 8,131 m
K2 9,907 m
Donna 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Ted 10,000 m
Josh 10,046 m
Dennis 10,131 m
Tom M 10,158 m
Eric 10,615 m
Howard 11,012 m
Heather 11,112 m
Dan O' 11,466 m
danwho 12,121 m...a Welkian palindrome!
Stuart 12,259 m
Louie 12,321 m ...a count em up and down palindrome!
Liz 14,050 m
Greg F 14,423 m
Robert H 15,000 m
19,381 m ... building up her meters again!
Ron 20,002 m ...a two aught palindrome!
Paul C 21,097 m... he moons us on his way to 500K!
David A 21,549 m... he moons us, too!
Steve W 21,622 m...he moons us,too !
Zach 25,552 m ... a palindrome with a built in moon!
Ed 42,195 m ... he full moons us!
Warnie 69,585 m ...a tsunami of meters!

[BigBrett58]

Any advice on ramping up training? I am almost to 3 months of consistent training, but I am closer to 160k meters per month. I'd really like to make 200k, should I be worried about the increase in meters. Honestly, my body isn't giving me great feedback... My legs feel great (I'm a former runner), but the upper body is definitely on the learning curve.

My gut is telling me to concentrate on slow and steady, but I see so many things online that say if you aren't rowing 2:00/500m then you aren't trying (I'm a mid to late 30's male that has a relatively athletic background).

Maybe I'm just complaining, but hey, that's why I joined a group.

I'm 43 and weigh around 310 at around 34% body fat. I'm pretty sure I couldn't run a mile without having to walk. I rowed 30k meters today broken up between 3 sittings. I'm reasonably confident that you're capable of pushing yourself much further than you can currently imagine. You won't find out until you push yourself outside your comfort zone. See what you can do.

[BAZzy]

Catching up on Luna-tic news - we've been travelling (unexpectedly) over the past 3 weeks to our tropical north...

And we've come home to cold weather!

Trust all are well, and geared up for the Fall (um Spring for some) challenge!

Cheers, Baz

[Kona2]

Having a bit of trouble with connection to Concept2 affiliation database - but can finally see that we have 80 Lunies on the Fall Challenge Team, and we are currently fourth in the Challenge. Stay tuned.

[danwho]

Any advice on ramping up training? I am almost to 3 months of consistent training, but I am closer to 160k meters per month. I'd really like to make 200k, should I be worried about the increase in meters. Honestly, my body isn't giving me great feedback... My legs feel great (I'm a former runner), but the upper body is definitely on the learning curve.

My gut is telling me to concentrate on slow and steady, but I see so many things online that say if you aren't rowing 2:00/500m then you aren't trying (I'm a mid to late 30's male that has a relatively athletic background).

Maybe I'm just complaining, but hey, that's why I joined a group.

Hi SweatSlide! I was just looking for some of the resources I used to use. I remember this Training Programme on a UK website - but things have moved around a lot. I think I just found it at: http://www.redking.me.uk/sport/rowing/t ... ing_v2.pdf. Also, you might want to look up The Wolverine Plan and The Pete Plan. The Pete Plan is a modification (simpler to follow) of The Wolverine Plan.

[Kona2]

81 Lunies on the roster!

We're hanging on to the 4th spot in the roster, but oh so tenuously. Only one answer! Do more meters than the other teams! There was a time when I spoke with Greenville Indoor Rowing...and their aspiration was to beat us. Well, I guess they have gotten the numbers to do that fairly consistently, but we are not done yet. Crank it up, Lunies!



There were a couple of bunny trails in danwho's message...the Pete Plan and The Wolverine Plan. Well, the Wolverine plan was sure different than the XMen version. But good info!

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

1.4 MM Rebecca
400 K Dan O
400 K Eric
200 K Dennis
200 K Rich Mc

Thanks, everyone, for erging with us!

Rich G 833 m
Truthy 2,009 m
Steve W 2,024 m
Tombeur 3,118 m ...so great to see meters!
GMan 4,015 m
Candace 4,515 m
Mikkel 5,000 m
Rich M 5,000 m
William H 5,000 m
Heather 5,211 m
Jeff D 5,280 m
Corey 6,000 m
Karin 6,000 m
Robert H 6,000 m
Thor 6,162 m
Greg H 6,259 m
Kevin Mc 6,354 m
Dan O' 6,453 m
Patrick S 6,602 m
David T 8,000 m
Baz 10,000 m
Tom M 10,332 m
K2 10,422 m
Rich Mc 10,537 m
Charles B 10,603 m
Howard 11,040 m
Josh 11,312 m
Louie 11,583 m
Ian 11,900 m
Jim C 12,000 m
Rebecca 12,000 m
Eric 12,021 m ...a dozensy palindrome!
Dennis 13,431 m ...a palindrome!
David A 14,802 m
Donna 15,144 m
Ron 19,191 m ...a palindrome!
Ted 20,011 m
Gary 21,097 m... he moons us!
Minnie 25,203 m ... she moons us!
Brett 30,035 m...he moons us!
Ed m ...a palindrome and a moon!