You need to know that they call the machine the "erg", because that's the sound you make when you are done with it.
Once upon a time when I trained with the varsity team, one of the key workouts was a 2000m TT. Apparently the benchmark was to get below 8min. I could get close, but never get it. Needless to say I was one of the shamed ones.
Edited to add:
In an actual rowing race, they would go 10 (or 15 or 20) strokes super hard all out effort, at 500m intervals. So you could replicate that on the machine. So their race sim on the erg would be:
10 hard to start
500m row
10 hard
etc.. (you get the point)
Once upon a time when I trained with the varsity team, one of the key workouts was a 2000m TT. Apparently the benchmark was to get below 8min. I could get close, but never get it. Needless to say I was one of the shamed ones.
Edited to add:
In an actual rowing race, they would go 10 (or 15 or 20) strokes super hard all out effort, at 500m intervals. So you could replicate that on the machine. So their race sim on the erg would be:
10 hard to start
500m row
10 hard
etc.. (you get the point)
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noodle_soup: Mar 2, 18 11:09