Anyone here rowing on a concept 2??
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i hate rowing, makes me want to cry <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /><br />
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im 5'11'' and 205lb with short thick legs<br />
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havent done any rowing for 8 years, maybe i'll try it again -
baboon, I am 5 11, 107kg (240 odd punds??), and the hookers body to match, and love it. I have always rowed at a ten setting though, and have only just read that you should be down around the 3 mark to get decent times. And then read that hard setting are more suited to weight lifters and the like - the like being frontrowers I expect. Blokes that are all power and little technique they reckon!!<br />
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I always used 10 as well. Didn't see the point in any of the other settings. Nothing wrong with being that sort of size baboon - as Bart says: get stuck in.<br />
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107kg = 235.4lbs <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /><br />
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I'm about 264 at the mo <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /> -
Was ready to go yesterday, but there are only two rowers in my gym! it's a huge gym too with a million machines and treadmills (and other stuff I dont use), but only 2 rowers and they were taken. So I ran abit and did some bicycle. Anyone tried that climber thingy: skinny upright thing with place for hands and feet, the motion is like a vertical version of a baby crawling.
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Rowing is great work Bartman, both for aerobic and, if done at high intensity at great speed, anaerobic fitness. Just be very careful of your lower back. You sound like you've been doing it for a long time, so you know how to do it safely. As somebody who has ruined his lower back through years of heavy barbell squatting, I can tell you that the last thing you want is a herniated disk, which is easy to do when sitting in a rowing position and doing intense exercise.<br />
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Needless to say, my rowing days are over.<br />
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But if you want to spice it up, try doing intervals. Intervals consist of one minute of high intensity rowing at a speed that is near the high end of your range, followed by 30 seconds of rest. Then repeat. If you find that easy to manage, make it 2 minutes of high intensity rowing followed by 30 seconds rest. <br />
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The problem with any endurance aerobic activity is that it's freaking boring as hell. And, according to recent exercise research, the benefits of interval-style training in weight loss, muscle gain and even aerobic capacity are actually greater. <br />
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Spending an hour or more on a step machine, eliptical trainer or rowing machine never really added much to my overall fitness. <br />
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yeah D, gets real oring, so if doing a long slow train, I park myself in fornt of TV and watch a rugby game.<br />
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Interval training, yeah, knocks the hell out of you, and good, will start doing some more variations.<br />
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AS for back, had a protruding disc thing years ago from rugby, but came right, and have been ding back exercises ever since, and always when i come off the rower. Straight back the key children!! -
Good thread this.<br />
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Have been sticking to the X-trainer and bike at the gym the past couple of months.<br />
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Will jump on the rower tonight.<br />
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Just get stuck in and go for it! Will have a blast at 2000m tonight and post my (embarrasing) time...if it ain't too shite...
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I hate those X-trainer things. The movement is bloody weird and because I'm a fat unco bastard I can never take more than a minute on the damn thing! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
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I'm trying to get a group of school kids to row 8 million metres in three months on Concepts 2 to raise money for a decent playing surface for school in Africa. It is even harder work than doing it all myself. Some of them have really taken to idea but others are lazy. I injured my back a couple of months ago but I've found that rowing eases the pain.<br />
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I row about 15,000 metres a week. I either do 1,000 sprints or 5,000 seeing how quickly I can do the last 500. My best time for 5,000 is 20:12, much slower than Bart''s. It beats running in the rain. -
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I hate those X-trainer things. The movement is bloody weird and because I'm a fat unco bastard I can never take more than a minute on the damn thing! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' /><br />
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Keep at it big lad. Get stuck in. The old cross-trainer is great, no impact and good for the legs. Also warms up the shoulders if you are going to lift weights afterwards. <br />
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I do need to take at least a day a week off from the cross-trainer, otherwise I get pains in my lower back, not sure why....<br />
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Bart - 2:00 per 500m for any distance of 2000m+ is bloody good for a non-specialist rower... -
I was in a gym this afternoon with a guy who is a GB runner. I'm 90 Kg, he must be at least two thirds of that. I did 5,000 metres at 2:10 per 500m pace mostly, final time just over 22 minutes. He was pulling 1:42!!!!<br />
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jaysus - he was at 1:42 for the 5000, that's good going!<br />
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Talking to a mate of a mate of Rob Wadell's. Rob was 100kg (around) when he set his erg world record, which has since been beaten.<br />
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He is now about 120 since taking up yachting, and reckons with the extra power he wouild kill the record, but doesn't get enough time to train for it. that extra power would be lethal! -
I've just been looking up all the records.<br />
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[url="http://www.concept2.com/05/training/competition/records_all.asp"]http://www.concept2.com/05/training/com ... ds_all.asp[/url]<br />
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Rob Waddell's record was 2000 metres in 5.38.3 in 1999., it was beaten by the German Matthias Siejkowski who got 5.37.0 in 2002.<br />
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New Zealand still holds the woman's record for 2k. Georgina Evers-Swindell got 6.28.2 in 2002. -
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I do need to take at least a day a week off from the cross-trainer, otherwise I get pains in my lower back, not sure why....<br />
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Core muscles - because your arms and legs are all over the joint you need to keep an upright torso and you might find you're leaning forward slightly on the machine (some of them do), and trying to pull your shoulders back to a vertical body position, thus your lower back is always tense. Try keeping your abs tight during the exercise and it might improve. Otherwise try gripping a higher or lower position with your hands. -
Bart , thats a great time for 5000. Afew years and kg's ago , i got a bit addicted to the rowing machine and my best was 18.57 and that was absolutetly flat out.<br />
I use to do 5000 on rower, 20 minutes on bike level6 then another 5000 on rower(always L 10).<br />
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Fuck i would kill for the motivation to start doing that again.
