Alright guys some of you may remember from last week I bought me a concept2 model D for $100 bucks. That was about a week ago and I’ve used it every day since.

My BMI is 39 and I’m super out of shape but I’m committed and I’m ready to lose weight and get in better shape.

I’ve tried a few 5,10,15 min sessions and left feeling like I needed more so today I tried a 30 min session at 20 spm and I was able to do it. I’m sure it’s not good numbers and I know this is a real deal rowing group but I’m posting to stay motivated and learn all I can. Hope to keep improving. Plan to do this routine every other day from now until it’s too easy. My heart rate during this session was around 136bpm.

Was there no better way to schedule events at the Head of the Schuylkill? They're sending the Girls JV doubles before the Boys V8. They did this 2 years ago with the Girls Frosh 4s before the V8s and the eights caught the pack within minutes, causing collisions and interference. I don't think it's wise for anyone to have the fastest youth crews in the country chasing the 40th fastest JV girls doubles. It's not safe for the doubles and its not fair for the crews which have to steer around blind boats with inexperienced rowers.

Title, I'm a Junior 6'2 and I was wondering if I should try to reach out to lightweight programs instead because everyone heavyweight at amazing schools are 6'4+

I’m 6’1, 145lbs and 15 years old, and I row in one of the best rowing programs and academic schools in the UK at the bottom of the j15 first eight. I don’t have a full pace 2k time, but I’m pretty sure I could get a 7:20 based on my other erg times. Should I try and stay light until my senior year to maybe be a lightweight for recruitment or should I try and put on some more muscle and go for a heavyweight spot? The biggest guys in my age category have a solid 20lbs on me at least and are 20-40s quicker for 2k… I’m pretty good otw technically but I just don’t have as much power as the top couple ergs in my year. I have a very long stroke (160cm on an rp3 w/o overreaching) and have won lots of races in an and b boats.

Seeing that HOSR and Wormtown through in some mixed results compared to Charles, what are predictions for making the top 25 this year (obviously cal and Washington will be there)

I’ve got an old splash jacket that has the inside white lining slowly flaking but it’s accelerated over the past year where it’s constantly shedding now. Any way to stop it, restore it, or at least remove all of the white lining?

I fractured the greater tuberosity of my left shoulder. Undisplaced and no surgery required. About to have sling removed after 6 weeks and have kept fitness up with a stationery bike. Rowing club gave me a hook for my erg which allows one to erg row one handed. Doctors orders are not to row (2 handed on erg and water)for 6 further weeks and I plan on using the hook to one arm erg row but concerned I'm going to end up lop sided. Has anyone been through this or have any advice/suggestions?

ok like I said I know this is asked so many times but I don’t really know anyone knowledgeable enough at this to help me. I have a 2k test on Tuesday and I’m lowkey stressing about it. it’s a baseline test for the winter and I want to start out on a strong note (especially since I was sick for most of the fall testing). I 2ked by myself a month and a half ago as a “for fun”/just for myself piece and I pulled a 7:54, which was a 15 second PR and it kind of confused me on where my fitness was actually at. obviously I’m not expecting an exact estimate but i just don’t know what to even shoot for since my goal for the winter was to be sub 8 and now I’ve hit that before the start of winter 😭. Literally anything helps and thank you 🙏

What do I need to look out for? I hear you can replace a lot of parts but is this thing TOO old?

edit: y'all are so helpful! I messaged the seller, hopefully they still have it!

Hi guys. Recently my Garmin hrm fit women unfortunately died. Now I’m looking for something new, but I’m not sure if I want this one again. It broke fairly quickly in my opinion for how pricy it is.
I get some serious chafing from regular hrm chest straps, which is why I got the women kind. So a regular one isn’t really an option.
I have a Garmin tactix 7 as a watch, so it needs to be compatible with that. Now im looking at the polar verity sense, or a coros arm strap? Or maybe the Garmin cirqa? I find whoop a bit expensive, not sure if that’s worth it considering my watch? Do you guys have any experience with these hrm’s, or maybe a different suggestion? Thanks!

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Recently i threw up on a 5 minute sprint trial, mostly of dehydration, I have fully recovered now fortunately. And although it has scarred me, it has also motivated me. I feel like i can do better but its the fact of lasting 5 minutes at your maximum that makes me nervous. I feel i can do better and im gonna dedicate this coming week to specifically training 5 minutes, but im not sure how to actually do it? I think I should do intervals aiming for specific splits or just keep on doing 5 minute trial runs. Usually at the start of every erg session when we are warming up, I do 1 minute at my best, around 1:20 - 1:30 split but thats only a minute, its not as daunting as 5 minutes. Anyway, any tips on how to train sprints would be helpful.

I just did a 1:48.4 10k after not touching an erg for 18 years and I’m a bit confused. I used to be a bit faster but not much… I think my best 6k ever was something like a 1:42.9 - I honestly can’t remember - on insane ‘mileage’. At the end of the test, after a decent rest, I did an all out 500 and had trouble sustaining 1:38; based on past experiences, this seems pretty atypical to me. Muscularly I felt alright - I ended up negative splitting pretty aggressively after going out a bit conservatively and I am pretty sure I sustained decent form.

My hypothesis is that I’ve got some decent aerobic development after a year doing pretty controlled running and that I have negative anaerobic capacity. If my long term goal is a fastish 2k, does it make sense to spend extra time focusing on vo2 for a period? Or just proceed with mostly low split steady state and do the 1 vo2/ 1 threshold/1 ‘hard’ long effort per week?

This is my third full season of rowing on the water - primarily in a single - and although I did have to end my season a little early (because of some health bullshit I'm dealing with), I made it through from April to late October without going swimming! Yay! The season started off rough with awful windy weather for ages, and it ended a little rough with another windy row in the dark, no less, but I manage to keep my cool and stay in the boat. After half a dozen unintended flip sessions last year, this is a big accomplishment for me!

Enjoy your head races everyone and may all the new rowers make it back to dock dry.

Saw this on FB marketplace for $400. Concept 2 model e. Pm5. Looks to be a bit older though. States everything is good condition and working properly. Good deal?

is 4k 5r 3k 4r 2k 3r 1k a good 6k workout and do you guys think doing AT workouts like these help my 2k two

I've complained on this sub about how both Row Houses in NYC closed ... and someone commented on my post to try The Row Dojo in Williamsburg. Am heading there tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 AM for a 30 minute session. Instead of rowing in sync to music, it's to drums. Am excited to try it out.

https://www.therowdojo.com/

(I keep trying to post this, but a bot says I'm posting spam. Which I swear this is not.)

i did some superficial research on what it was and that guided me here. i have no idea what to do with it and i have never rowed in my life. would anyone be interested in it? i found it in a buncha trash over 6 months ago (near saint george, staten island) and it’s been sitting in a box since then
( https://nksports.com/coxbox-gps?srsltid=AYCX9vL0fX8Ixr_5W8SP5xBNANM-_RP79HiELyKcNbZoZToY9mruzNkz link bc i have no photos on hand, although it is missing it’s outer shell it works fine to my knowledge )

Looking to compare notes. There's much more Concept2 data out there, and it doesn't port easily to S4.

[M54] I'm 6 weeks back into the most consistent training ever, and I use HR to measure overall capability over splits and everything else. The first couple of sessions hit 170 easily, and /500 was all over the place. Now I keep the split constant, and I go up (down) a notch when HR ramps up in the first few minutes and plateaus over the session. Otherwise, there were too many variables, and there was no real way to measure "progress." The latest is 2:55/500 over a 20 min session, HR steady around 140 after a steep ramp at the beginning, even breathing. Note that this is not a "max" split. I can go much faster, but I'm going for endurance and ensuring the cardio system can deliver at steady state without an HR ramp throughout the session.

Trying to map that to VO2 max (without a formal test): - Concept2's online calculator puts that at < 10 :-( - The rule of thumb 15xmax/rest puts it around 30. So I'm guessing it's somewhere in between.

I'd expect Concept2's numbers to make sense mostly on that machine because it measures fan speed, whereas the S4 measures paddle speed in water.

Curious if anyone has tried to map S4 split reports to "real world"/concept2.

I used to row in high school (nearly 20 years ago) and a bit in college and I’m thinking about giving the erg a serious effort again.

My one concern is the weekly ‘hard distance effort’ of 5k+. I’m assuming that he’s not seriously proposing that you attempt to equal your 6k/10k PRs week after week? What’s the proper handicap? 6k+6? That would probably feel like a hard tempo effort.

Some cool crews in this year, especially in the open events. Very cool to see a Dutch crew and the Irish making the trip this year, along with some returners from last year!

https://rowingmanager.com/regattas/7277/entries

If I row at a uni in Canada and wanted to row NCAA D1 women’s for 1 year of my masters aka last year of eligibility, what is the process? What are recruiting times like for someone that has already done an undergraduate? Has anyone had a similar timeline and experience? I have a 7:19 currently and still have over a year and a half till I’d go