Guess the damper setting.
Roasties need to stop using the ergs, they don't have the IQ for it.
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Guess the damper setting. Roasties need to stop using the ergs, they don't have the IQ for it.
>15 minutes for a 1.7k at 31 strokes/minute
How in the frick? Max damper setting? 4/5 is what we always went with for indoor practice when I was on a rowing team
Is rowing better than running for cardio? Does it give you a really strong back?
With proper form, most of the work is in the legs. I definitely preferred it to running, and actually being in the boat is great.
How is rowing cardio different to running? Are the arms used less in rowing?
I've heard that rowing can give you more muscular endurance, whereas running gives you cardiac endurance.
Definitely more on the plyometrics for the legs due to the drive. But at the end of the day, cardio is cardio, your heart is just pumping.
It can frick your lower back if you have shit form. Often people pull too much with arms. You should always think of it as pushing with the legs primarily. And the back should be basically straight by the time the arms engage. You can get good shoulders and upper back, but you have to remember to do the shrug at the end of the stroke.
And your knees if you compress.
Many people pumping out 4 minute plus splits are such hambeasts that their legs can't bend that much anyway, so at least they're safe.
>You can get good shoulders and upper back, but you have to remember to do the shrug at the end of the stroke.
First I'm hearing about shrugging when rowing. Isn't this frowned upon?
More like a reverse shrug really, where you bring your shoulders down and back (shoulder blades coming to the middle) to give a little more motion at the end.
Definitely don't lift the shoulders upwards.
Do both, they complement each other well.
rowing is low impact
running is high impact
one will allow you to reach old age with very healthy joints and knees
the other will make you need a walker because of your destroyed joints and knees, and you will be taking dozens of pain killers a day for the same reason
extremely low iq post
"You're just heel striking" is the cope. No, rooner, you'll get there, hope you like the taste of Tylenol.
Long distance running just seems like a terrible form of exercise all around. Sprinting and low impact stuff like rowing is just far better for you. Rooners have to cope with looking like shit and having terrible joints
Her form was hilariously bad. I have never seen someone move the handle up and down so much, or use so little leg movement. b***hes don't know their shameful rows are all stored in the monitor I guess.
I see a lot of people using their arms for all the work and arching their back
Are you a roastie? Cause to me it seems like YOU don't have the iq to use the erg.
Fricking hell ignore me. I just realized that this is a picture of someone else's stats, not OP's.
Can you explain for a non rower
A decent speed for a novice is around the 2 minute per 500 meter mark. This women took nearly 5 minutes to go 500m. You can only achieve such dogshit results at 30+ strokes per minute if you're clinically moronic.
Why would you hog rowing machine for that long? Just finish 2000m in 6min with 1:30/500m split. That’s all you need
> What is steady stating?
But these are non rowers. Just fly and die mother fricker
I only row to warm up but at the end of my 5 minutes I'm usually at 1100-1200 m... wtf is going on here
That's pretty normal, that's like a 2:15 500m split. Not a bad pace for a warmup
I always preferred being out on the water to the erg. Ergs are nice in that you can use them any time of year, but the boat is just much more enjoyable overall. Nothing quite beats the feeling of being out on the river, surrounded by nature
you seem to know about rowing. what does the resistance setting actually change. does it change the transmission meaning more resistance = going faster or is it just like a brake. because I mostly do 7-8 on the concept 3
not that guy, but it's meant to replicate the feel of a boat on water. Heavy person + heavy boat means you want higher erg damper setting. 7-8 is about max you'd want to go. The concept 2 erg reports a drag factor number which changes with damper setting, and you can look up what your drag factor should be based on weight
thanks guys, I'll experiment with setting it to 3-5
The damper makes the fly wheel slow down faster. This means that by the time you start the next stroke, you have to speed it up more. It's more like rowing a very heavy boat. "Harder means I go faster" right? Wrong. It just means you're wasting all your big muscle activations on speeding the flywheel up again.
7-8 is likely too high unless you're doing strength drills or something. 10 ask the time is asking for lower back pain: there's a reason the machine are made so the ideal spot is near the middle: if 10 was ideal, the scale would go to 15.
What you actually need to do is find the calibration setting in the monitor and see what resistance gives a drag factor of about 130-140 (substract 10 if a woman). Even Olympians row around 5 as this is firstly similar to a real boats and secondly where you can lay down power most efficiently. This is why real boats are designed so they are here in the scale.
Should I get a rowing machine, or a rowing boat?
Machine would be more convenient but being out on the water is obviously more fun and motivating to go hard
get a boat, I would if I could afford it
I can't afford anything fancy, was thinking more like building something like so: http://gentrycustomboats.com/RUTHpage.html
That's more like a single person canoe than a proper shell, but if you can get a satisfying row in with that then go for it.
Who cares?
It's impressive how ridiculous those numbers are. Idk if I could even do that if I tried. Twice as slow as my long steady state pace with a 50% greater stroke rate. Rowing isn't that hard, it's a mystery how some people just don't have the awareness to move with any semblance of grace
I don't think I've every seen anyone on an erg at the gym and thought "yeah that looks good". It's always some fricked up shit where they end up curled around the handle like a shrimp or wave the handle around wildly while they trace it over their knees and touch it down to the rail.
Have they never had the self awareness to check on YouTube?
The first time I went on a rowing machine I did the tracing the handle up over the knees on the return stroke and instantly thought no that can't be right, by stroke 3 I had the technique sorted. People are generally quite badly coordinated / lacking common sense it seems