I’ve been doing 500m intervals 1 day a week and today I went and rowed my first one pretty hard. I’m going to keep doing this and to keep motivation high as these things really suck, let’s have a little competition.
Whoever wants to take part, find a C2 rower and row 500m for time. Use the computer on the machine and program it for a 500m go so it will stop exactly when you hit 500. I did not do this today. Post your times here, do it once or do it weekly but keep posting your times.
I did ~1:37 today and I have a bit more in me. It put me somewhere around #220 in ranking on the C2 website. #1 was 1:17. I want to get down to 1:30 within 8 weeks.
I’m in. I compete a lot with friends. It’s fun, and gives you a reason to give 100% at training.
I don’t keep track of times, so I see this a reason to begin.
Tried it today after boxing, got a 1:23 first try and 1:30 on the 2nd. Im gonna try it again when Im fresh, todays attempts were after training and conditioning.
Well I started the thread, but then it got warm out so I’m running sprints instead of C2’ing it. My contributions will be sparse but I’ll add times when I do them.
I’ve been pulling two and three minute intervals the past few weeks.
Yesterday I pulled five three minute intervals at about a 1:51ish/500M average.
I’ve also been pulling two minute intervals with 10 seconds at full speed and 10 seconds at low intensity to get used to the feel of a faster pace. It really gasses me out.
Hopefully I’ll take a shot some 500m intervals this weekend.
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I’ve been pulling two and three minute intervals the past few weeks.
Yesterday I pulled five three minute intervals at about a 1:51ish/500M average.
I’ve also been pulling two minute intervals with 10 seconds at full speed and 10 seconds at low intensity to get used to the feel of a faster pace. It really gasses me out.
Hopefully I’ll take a shot some 500m intervals this weekend.
@ cutthroat: That 1:23 is sick!
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Thanks bro…I didnt even know it was a decent time lol… I just started using the c2 machine but i like it so far. Its easy on the knees when i take days off from prowler, sprints and hill-sprints.
5-6 is about right for me. The damper setting is used to generate drag. Most C2s have a setting where you can test the drag at a given damper setting. The C2 website (Home of the best-selling RowErg -SkiErg -BikeErg | United States) and forum has some info in it. I copied this from there:
"Row a few strokes to get the flywheel spinning and the monitor will display the drag factor number.
Then adjust the damper lever so that you’re in this range:
Male hwt 125-140
Female hwt 120-135
Male lwt 120-135
Female lwt 115-125"
They also have a section where you can rank your times. If you set the ranking parameters right (age, weight, sate, city) you can you can get a pretty good ranking…so far I’m the best in Baltimore in 2010-LOL.
Just pulled a 1:29.1/500m. Started a bit too strong and couldn’t to stay below a 1:30 pace for the last 200m. I may try and pull a few 250m intervals later in the week to work on pace.