Hi Cam, Would appreciate if you can help. I am relatively a beginner rower. I have joined my uni rowing team, and would like to become quicker on the erg and improve my fitness. My current 2k splits are at 1:50 /500m, but would like to decrease them. What would your advice be in regards with training and what exactly to do to decrease the time, and improve fitness Thanks
Hello! Beyond writing you a training program (which I do offer!) there’s not much beyond making it super simple. Consistently training over time, increasing your fitness will help 💪
hi cam i had a question. as a lightweight who wants to gain weight with a fast metabolism for rowing what should i do? i am around 68 kg and would like to be at 77 kg in 2 years do you think that’s possible?
Gaining weight is strictly speaking not what you want. What you are really after is building muscle mass (hypertrophy if I remember rightly). That requires weight training and an appropriate diet. Google is your friend.
Expanding on one of the questions you had today, my running and rowing max heart rates are different.. by around 5+bpm Should you use the highest max heart rate as theoretically as you say, the body doesn’t know what exercise you are doing so your ut2 zone should be the same… 🧐
To me the max is still the max and usually the reason for having a “higher” max for one modality over another is probably the ability on that modality is higher so can push further.
My actual running max is about 5 bpm higher than my rowing max. I use the same bands calculated based off my rowing max, figuring that the point of UT2 is low intensity so it's probably best to err on the side of a tad easy.
Loving the daily uploads, they’ve become part of my daily routine 😂
Love your work, Cam
I appreciate the support!
Lots of great advice from both of you thanks.
Crikey, this one came late in the day. My wife was a bit disappointed at breakfast. Both much happier now. 😉😉
Love your videos buddy. Share them with my Irish coastal rowing pals. (You should jump on a wee ferry to Larne sometime and come join us)
That’d be a an adventure!
Good man Cameron. We'd love to have you.
Hi Cam,
Would appreciate if you can help. I am relatively a beginner rower. I have joined my uni rowing team, and would like to become quicker on the erg and improve my fitness. My current 2k splits are at 1:50 /500m, but would like to decrease them.
What would your advice be in regards with training and what exactly to do to decrease the time, and improve fitness
Thanks
Hello!
Beyond writing you a training program (which I do offer!) there’s not much beyond making it super simple.
Consistently training over time, increasing your fitness will help 💪
I’ve been doing a lot of low rate, Zone 2 erging, then last week I did a 10x500/90s at my 2k+5 pace and I struggled with the change of rate.. 😢
Yes unfortunately while zone 2 will help your cardio overall it’s not going to automatically help higher rates
Personally I found 20 minutes moderate weight training 5 days a week made me a lot quicker than an extra 20 minutes a day on the water or erg.
Indeed. 20 minutes of cardio, assuming that you’re relatively fit won’t impact fitness much. Whereas you can easily do some heavy reps in 20 minutes
4 hrs on the road or on the water would be easy and enjoyable for me. 4 hrs on the machine, I would struggle.
hi cam i had a question. as a lightweight who wants to gain weight with a fast metabolism for rowing what should i do? i am around 68 kg and would like to be at 77 kg in 2 years do you think that’s possible?
Gaining weight is “simple”. More calories in vs calories out. Do that consistently and gaining 10kg in 2 years is relatively “easy”
Gaining weight is strictly speaking not what you want. What you are really after is building muscle mass (hypertrophy if I remember rightly). That requires weight training and an appropriate diet. Google is your friend.
Expanding on one of the questions you had today, my running and rowing max heart rates are different.. by around 5+bpm
Should you use the highest max heart rate as theoretically as you say, the body doesn’t know what exercise you are doing so your ut2 zone should be the same… 🧐
To me the max is still the max and usually the reason for having a “higher” max for one modality over another is probably the ability on that modality is higher so can push further.
My actual running max is about 5 bpm higher than my rowing max. I use the same bands calculated based off my rowing max, figuring that the point of UT2 is low intensity so it's probably best to err on the side of a tad easy.
So I will talk to my coach before spending 4 hours on the bike. 😉
I think that’s a good idea!
Coach knows best! 😉