Bit hard to do on a machine in the garage!
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Anybody use a rowing machine?
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Posted 8 months ago #
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C'mon stop the willy waving. XC skiing is silly hard, as frankly is rowing and probably several other sports. Irrespective they'll all give you a very good workout and unless you're an international athete in the sport of 'I'm fitter than you' then which one you choose doesn't really matter.
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No willy waving here - until today I would honestly never have imagined you could do XC skiing in the garage...
That skierg thing is either a) amazing, or b) the terrifying lovechild of an ergo and climbing frame... or c) both...
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(the GB team quite often do XC skiing on their winter training camp as it goes)
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XC skiing is silly hard, as frankly is rowing and probably several other sports.
tbh, mountain biking is silly hard, from most people's viewpoints - first, you have to ride a bike, then you have to ride it up hills, then sometimes you have to ride while standing up... we often underestimate the fitness required for even basic mountain biking because we enjoy it so much!
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That skierg thing is either a) amazing, or b) the terrifying lovechild of an ergo and climbing frame... or c) both...
I've had a go on one, and personally I have to say I'd rather go on a rowing machine - just didn't do it for me (then again I'd rather go roller-skiing than do either). I guess it's kind of like poling only XC skiing, which whilst it is much more of an all body workout than people think isn't something I desperately enjoy either (though I suppose I should really do a lot more training at it, given it's a very big part of ski-orienteering - a very niche sport, but something I can probably get into the GB team for - which isn't really willy waving at all!)Posted 8 months ago # -
What's your 2000m PB time then Clubber?
I got down to a 6m42 in a fitness first gym comp 6 or 7 years ago.
The guy who won was in the 6m20s'.
I've always thought of under 7mins as a general good time. Haven't rowed in years but did a 2000m out of the blue the other week and was just over 7mins. I was a bit gutted to be honest as I think I'm fitter now than I was back then!
Think I had lost my technique as my arms were burning after!This thread has also got me back in the mood to get back on the rower!
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I was alright on the erg - unfortunately not fast enough to be as good as I'd have liked.
I'd say that any remotely serious rower should be under 7 mins, a half decent heavyweight 6:20 and below, 6:35ish for a lightweight.
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OK I'll wave mine - 6:41 and a lightweight by a good stone at the time. I thought that was actually a very good time for a LW?
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I managed 6:57 and i'm on the border of lwt / hwt.
too old and too short to go too much faster
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I never quite broke 6:30. I think I got down to 6:31 at one of the Indoor Championships. I needed to loose about 5kg to make myself a light weight, but was never that dedicated! I was generally better at the 5k or 10k distnaces, but maybe that was because less people did them?
I haven't been on a Concept2 for 3 or 4 years, but would hope I could knock out a sub 7:00 2k if I had a go now.
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I thought that was actually a very good time for a LW?
A good national level lwt kind of score. 6:35 was the minimum to be allowed to do the GB trials IIRC.
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6:35 was the minimum to be allowed to do the GB trials IIRC.
- could definitely have got down to that - though then I'd have had to be able to row a real boat I suppose.
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Indeed... it's one thing hitting the scores on an erg, another to do it in the boat.
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And it's maybe worth pointing out that if you were scraping in at 6:35 you'd be expected to be a weight gimp - eg you bring the crew average down to allow for the 'big' lwts pulling decent scores.
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Would 10.5 stones (what I was at the time) be enough of a weight gimp?
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Reasonable - certainly in the right sort of area - nearer 10 would be better still (and what the really good weight gimps were at)
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Can be a bit boring but will get you in shape if you train 4 times a week.
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I only use it for the VO2 max calculation, 'cos it hurts. So about every 2 months.
http://www.concept2.com/us/interactive/calculators/vo2max.asp
That's at a drag factor of 140, about lever setting 5 for me though obviously it depends on altitude and even weather on the day.
How do you row 2k in 6.30?! 8.05 (62kg) has been my best time, and that literally finished with me toppling sideways into my own pool of sweat.
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How do you row 2k in 6.30?!
Decent technique is the simple answer...Posted 8 months ago # -
the concept II keeps me going to the Gym (admittedly not during the summer) - someone once said to me it's the machine of truth, which does make sense
always funny to see the rows of bikes, treadmills and cross trainers permanatley occupied, and the rowing machines empty, guess that says a lot! (that is about the type of person who drives to the gym to then walk on the treadmill - takes all sorts i guess)
i've tried all the main distances, including the marathon - never been too bothered by times, but can normally manage a sub 20min 5k or 40 min 10k without too much bother (at 10st even, i'm a lightweight, so lack power to go much quicker).
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including the marathon
26 miles on an erg. That's just silly.
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Not as silly as the real thing. You don't have to get off to carry your Concept II round a lock.
Boston MarathonPosted 8 months ago # -
If I want to row, I'll find a boat.
If I want to go sculling, I'll look for an ergo.
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er I've done the Boston Marathon... it was a long way but good in a strange way in a good crew.
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My son was in the J18 4X winning crew last year and they thoroughly enjoyed it. Fools.
Doesn't make me qualified to talk about rowing machines though.
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clubber is the Smee of rowing. Actually, I think Smee said he used to regularly do 6.45 2ks - without any instruction.
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I just managed a 7.12... I almost died, took me about half hour to return to feeling anything like normal.
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that's a good thing, right DD?
when we going.out for a spin, anyway?
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oh and well done tsy
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Sorry clubber, missed a big
Yes, that's a good thing. Free all next week apart from Tuesday and Thursday. TSY, well done. How's that five minute mile coming along?
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Still not running at the min Darcy, training starts in October. Really want to drop my 2k time now as well though!
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Ah yes...of course.
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Oooooh, what's wrong with ambition? I'm going to give it my very best shot!
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I know you will. I'm backing you 110%. Xx
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