Drag factor relative to damper setting
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Drag factor relative to damper setting
Hi. Has anyone produced a table showing what approximate drag factor a given damper setting creates on brand new RowErgs?
Re: Drag factor relative to damper setting
Ranges from 100 to 230. Your PM can show you your current drag factor.
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Re: Drag factor relative to damper setting
New RowErg machines range from 70-ish to 225-ish. But it varies quite a bit. I added markers where my most used DF's are, and it does change depending on teperature, humidity, etc.
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Re: Drag factor relative to damper setting
Its non-linear and gets very compressed at the top end. Not much lever movement to go from 190 to 220, lots more lever movement to go from 90 to 120
Mike - 67 HWT 183


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Re: Drag factor relative to damper setting
Clean Erg the DF is over 200 on 10.
As you should be using 110-130 DF after a bit of training for anything distance, that's like 6 or less on the damper setting on a clean Erg.
As you should be using 110-130 DF after a bit of training for anything distance, that's like 6 or less on the damper setting on a clean Erg.
Carl Watts.
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Age:56 Weight: 108kg Height:183cm
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Re: Drag factor relative to damper setting
Many thanks for the replies.