Anyone here rowing on a concept 2??
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I spoke to a friend who rowed for Great Britain in the Coxless Fours some years back about the Concept2. His personal setting for this is never any higher than 4. He did tell me why and I will come back to post the answer tomorrow. At the time I was quite pissed after being at a Champagne Brunch for 4 hours and the reason seems to have slipped through my short term memory bank. :nta
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Update on my concept 2 experience. Under the custom list I have been regulary doing the 1 on 1 off 2 on 2 off.. up to 4 and back. It's a total of 16 mins rowing over a 31 minute period.<br />
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That may seem like fuck all, but I assure you for an unfit b'stard like me... it's plenty. <br />
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Over the course of about 6 weeks, I've gradually built it up so I'm rowing now about 20 minutes of the 31 minute period. Distances have gone up from 3,800m in total to 4,700m which I'm stoked with. At the moment I start 15 seconds early and finish 15 seconds late on each of the rowing intervals.<br />
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Next target is 5,000m which I'm hoping to do this weekend.  I'll imagine I'll have to do about 21-22 mins rowing for this depending on what pace I'm setting. I average about 2:08 p/500m I suppose and usually have the setting on 7. To say that I am going to row 5,000m is something which I never ever thought I'd be able to say, so I'm stoked with it. Noticed the other day whilst playing squash that my fitness has improved a lot as well. <br />
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Also been using an HR monitor and it generally goes up to abot 160-165 whilst rowing and usually drops back to about 120 during the downtimes (depending on how hard I push). A couple of weeks back I did the last minute at a rate of 1:40 and almost died - the HR was at 180+!
