Longevity

[MiddleAgeCRISIS]

Does anyone on the forum now just row for Longevity and if so what does their routine look like?

I haven’t got the appetite or time to chase down my PB’s over 2/5/10k and I’m not sure doing so now would be beneficial to my overall well-being.

I’m more interested in being able to continue to row and put the hammer down occasionally knowing that I’m playing a long game and supplementing the rowing with other functional movement exercises.

Therefore doing predominantly UT1/2 work should be my target?

I think it would be fair to say i row for longevity as i row 20km a day and have now done 7280 km in consecutive days.

I think it has been a worthwhile exercise and my endurance levels have improved. I was rowing at 3m splits at 107 hr bpm. Now its relatively comfortable to row at 2.20 splits without straps and my heart rate is 120 to 130bpm

With only low intensity training I was able to row a 5k in 20 minutes after 11 months.

My performance gains mostly show in my heart rate vs splits. I have a much lower resting heart rate dropping to 49 over night.

I tend to see step changes in performance every 90 days or 1.8m metres. Eg the first 90 days was horrendous, the second 90 days was all about arms getting fit, the third 90s was core strength and abs. The last 90 days ive been doing a lot of strapless rowing and that's been super effective.

It is funny to report the benefits of incremental gains by basically rowing a lot, quite badly, with low effort.

I wasnt able to walk down stairs or slopes as i had injured my knee and it wasnt rehabbing. The rowing appears to have massively helped me as I can now do this.

Regards

Rob

[Ripples]

At the age of 63 this is a subject close to my heart.....as I need to protect it!

Here's an article I wrote on training recently, I think it's along the lines you were talking about...

You will get huge benefits from building a good Aerobic Base.

Is there a link to the article you wrote? The bolded, underline title is not a working link.

[Rod]

At the age of 63 this is a subject close to my heart.....as I need to protect it!

Here's an article I wrote on training recently, I think it's along the lines you were talking about...

You will get huge benefits from building a good Aerobic Base.

Is there a link to the article you wrote? The bolded, underline title is not a working link.

Thanks for the interest, my post shows the whole of the article, the underlined title is just a heading not a link.