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Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by anita> 6'0", bbw

Six foot?! Wow!

What does the bbw stand for though?

as i understand it big beautiful woman. was a documentary on the subject a couple of weeks ago

Originally posted by Al Jarvis 19/20 sounds like a pro-effort. I work with a lad who does 2 one-hour sessions in our company gym every day, plus river work too, and he can maintain 1m54s/500m doing 22SPM for an HOUR at at time! I swear, he's a machine!

an hour? hang on - two one hour sessions a day? where's the jaw drop squared smilie?

i could only do it for the 2000 & the last couple of hundred was a real struggle & i tended to be a bit dizzy at the end of it but my sister rowed at cambridge so made sure i had good technique which helped. problem was to everyone else you look like your going slower & you come off it sweating buckets & they're all "look at the state of that" after

Rowing? Usually get through three a day on weekdays and eleven on weekends.

you'd certainly want to eat less after that little lot!

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by AgentWood> > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> > Originally posted by AgentWood> > i gained weight when i was a rower. then again, i was practicing 3 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 5 years, so i was building serious muscle mass. as soon as i stopped i lost something like 25 pounds.

Come on then, Agentwood, what's the best time you can do 2k in?! Which seems to be the benchmark by which all rowers I work with measure themselves.. .

we never did 2k pieces, only 2500m ones. we were bad asses, you see. amazon women. :D

anyway, if i remember correctly, my best time for a 2500 was (and this is going back almost 10 years now) just over 10 minutes (something like 10:10 or thereabouts).

Ach, you slow coach! ;)

I work with a girl who actually rows for England who can do 2k in sub 7:30, but then, I didn't properly get in front of a rowing machine till last November and am still comparable with that. Blokes, eh? Though, must admit, lads I work with, who row dead seriously, like out of work on rivers at 5am and stuff, are closer to 6:30. But I believe that involves puking blood and the inability to walk and/or breath once you've cleared 2k at that sort of speed! Not entirely good for you!

hey, don't forget that 10 minute time was for a 2500, not 2000m, and i was only 17/18 years old at the time!

last year, when i was going through my 'back to the gym' phase, i did 45 minute pieces 3-4 times a week, with a stroke rating of around 20-22 and some good ol' power-10s thrown in. i couldn't believe i was actually sitting on that thing without being forced to! back in the day, i used to dread the ergometer practices and here i was, doing long pieces for the sheer love of it.... what the hell was i thinking. and it actually felt really good!

oh, and about your last post--there was always someone next to me going so fast i thought they'd break the chain, and pulling splits of about 4:30 in the process. i wanted to jump off the machine and yell at them before they either a) broke the expensive, beautiful concept II, or b) snapped their spine in half. some would even row with the handlebar sideways, and i watched one woman fly right off the slide and on to the floor once because she was of the 'the faster i go, the stronger i will get' school. they should require classes before letting people loose on them, like they do with the freeweights. jesus.

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by AgentWood> > > > Originally posted by Al Jarvis> > Originally posted by AgentWood> > i gained weight when i was a rower. then again, i was practicing 3 hours a day, 6 days a week, for 5 years, so i was building serious muscle mass. as soon as i stopped i lost something like 25 pounds.

Come on then, Agentwood, what's the best time you can do 2k in?! Which seems to be the benchmark by which all rowers I work with measure themselves.. .

we never did 2k pieces, only 2500m ones. we were bad asses, you see. amazon women. :D

anyway, if i remember correctly, my best time for a 2500 was (and this is going back almost 10 years now) just over 10 minutes (something like 10:10 or thereabouts).

Ach, you slow coach! ;)

I work with a girl who actually rows for England who can do 2k in sub 7:30, but then, I didn't properly get in front of a rowing machine till last November and am still comparable with that. Blokes, eh? Though, must admit, lads I work with, who row dead seriously, like out of work on rivers at 5am and stuff, are closer to 6:30. But I believe that involves puking blood and the inability to walk and/or breath once you've cleared 2k at that sort of speed! Not entirely good for you!

My best 2k was a 6:51. No puking of blood, but lots of writhing in pain and gasping for air. Oh yeah, and then riding my bike back home..... up hill.

Originally posted by Al Jarvis > Originally posted by Michael McDermott> > My best 2k was a 6:51. No puking of blood, but lots of writhing in pain and gasping for air. Oh yeah, and then riding my bike back home..... up hill.

I think you win this one hands down!

Can't understand why anyone does it. My work colleague, who rows 2hrs daily, also erg-tests himself once a month. Just him, going like a nutter for 2km, in a sterile environment with no one to cheer him on, and under no pressure whatsoever bar his own force of will. I can't understand why (or indeed how) he does it.

Egr test..........that phrase still causes me to wince.

I really enjoyed my time on the crew. All except for the erg testing. The pain was far worse than any sprint or head race I competed in.

i used to vomit--frequently--after erg tests. come to think of it, i vomited after a few races, as well. fortunately, i always made the rubbish bin/cleared the side of the boat!

90.5 kilos, i don't know what that is in pounds, if you want to do the maths it's 1 pound equals 2.2 kilos. :)

6' 6' 250 lbs. I could muscle up and lose some fat, but i'll do that this summer

Where some men have a six pack, I have a whole keg! I'll leave it at that