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Great exercise for POWER using the Concept II Rowing Machine
For anyone who is interesting in an exercise on the Concept II machine that is great for building power (and is really f-ing tiring), listen up.
I rowed for my university all last year, and I've heard we have one of the most intense winter training schedules of any school in the sport. We did many days of 80+ minutes of rowing, but nothing kicked my butt as bad as these did:
What you do is set the units on the machine to Watts/hr, and the time for 10 seconds. Set the rest for one minute, as you need to fully recover after every one of these. The gist is to basically see how high you can get the Watts/hr in the 10 second interval. You do this of course by pulling like your life depends on it, and you want to get the flywheel spinning as fast as possible. You'll probably have time for 4-6 strokes in ten seconds. Do anywhere from 10-20 of these at one minute intervals, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
An average of 500-600 is pretty decent. Anything around 800, and you're definitely a haus. Above 1000...maybe you should do this for a living.Tom, age 19.
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While not exactly for power I can see it being utilized for metabolic conditioning. I'm sure that some of the more conditioned guys here can give this a good run.
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Sounds cool, I will give it a try.
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ill have to give this a try... im still trying to hit sub 1:30 on the 500m row
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HomeYield I'm gonna have to disagree...this is certainly an exercise for power. I agree that the rowing machine is primarily for cardiovascular and muscular conditioning, but when used in this way, it feels quite similar to deadlifting.
As a reference, my teams's top rower pulled a 1:19 500m and a 5:58 2k, and I believe he was pulling up around 1200 W/hr on the last few of these
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Remembers vomiting numerous times after ergos*
God I love rowing.Being a strong teenager means nothing.
My wrists hurt, but some people don't have wrists to be sore. My knees have tendinitis, but some people don't have legs to get tendinitis in. I seem to be going backwards with training, yet some people can't even walk let alone lift 400 pounds on a daily basis.
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Remembers vomiting numerous times after ergos*
God I love rowing.Being a strong teenager means nothing.
My wrists hurt, but some people don't have wrists to be sore. My knees have tendinitis, but some people don't have legs to get tendinitis in. I seem to be going backwards with training, yet some people can't even walk let alone lift 400 pounds on a daily basis.
Dust out the vagina, and keep on lifting.
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I just started using the rowing machine a couple weeks ago and I love it, goona try this on one of my cardio days this week, I know im goona suck at since I just got back into the gym after a 4 months off ( been back almost a month now ) but hey gotta start somewhere.
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That's ****ing fast, my best time is 1:32.4, and I was pulling like a madman (I threw up after the set). This is a staple of my routine now, I feel it builds power and is also good for conditioning. Fuzzy I've throw up from rowing before also.....IDK why this machine takes so much out of me.
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Damn, sub 6 2k. Originally Posted by BeefyGreens
HomeYield I'm gonna have to disagree...this is certainly an exercise for power. I agree that the rowing machine is primarily for cardiovascular and muscular conditioning, but when used in this way, it feels quite similar to deadlifting.
As a reference, my teams's top rower pulled a 1:19 500m and a 5:58 2k, and I believe he was pulling up around 1200 W/hr on the last few of these
For the non rowers this is the equivelent of a 4 plate raw chest press.Being a strong teenager means nothing.
My wrists hurt, but some people don't have wrists to be sore. My knees have tendinitis, but some people don't have legs to get tendinitis in. I seem to be going backwards with training, yet some people can't even walk let alone lift 400 pounds on a daily basis.
Dust out the vagina, and keep on lifting.
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I wish I could finish 2k, lol.
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