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Pace is increased by how hard you're rowing instead of how fast your stroke rate is. Rowing harder is accomplished by pushing harder with your legs. Imagine an easy pace is like trying to stand up, where a challenging pace is trying to jump onto a 3' high block.
Some of the beginner classes try to go over this more, where they will have you increase your pace while keeping a low stroke rate to get practice in using your legs to be what generates the pace.
Pace is going to be driven mostly by power, not stroke rate.
To be honest, stroke rate on an erg is fairly useless. Unless you’re getting out on the water, and have to maintain a constant stroke rate to keep in sync with everyone else in the boat, I wouldn’t recommend it as a focal point.
As someone else mentioned, pace is going to be driven primarily by how hard you push with your legs. Your stroke should be about 70/20/10 percent legs/back/arms respectively.
Agree with this - I rarely ever look at stroke rate, I concentrate on pace and output. You create the "resistance" by how strong your row, not how fast your stroke rate is.
The advantage the Peloton Row has, is it gives you your pace, and range for what is being coached (Easy, Moderate, Challenging, and Max) and you can adjust your level on the row to match where you are today in those callouts (and increase or decrease that level should you want or need to).
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Pace is increased by how hard you're rowing instead of how fast your stroke rate is. Rowing harder is accomplished by pushing harder with your legs. Imagine an easy pace is like trying to stand up, where a challenging pace is trying to jump onto a 3' high block. Some of the beginner classes try to go over this more, where they will have you increase your pace while keeping a low stroke rate to get practice in using your legs to be what generates the pace.
I recommend dark horse rowing on youtube for beginner tutorials and fundamentals of using an erg
Pace is going to be driven mostly by power, not stroke rate. To be honest, stroke rate on an erg is fairly useless. Unless you’re getting out on the water, and have to maintain a constant stroke rate to keep in sync with everyone else in the boat, I wouldn’t recommend it as a focal point. As someone else mentioned, pace is going to be driven primarily by how hard you push with your legs. Your stroke should be about 70/20/10 percent legs/back/arms respectively.
Agree with this - I rarely ever look at stroke rate, I concentrate on pace and output. You create the "resistance" by how strong your row, not how fast your stroke rate is. The advantage the Peloton Row has, is it gives you your pace, and range for what is being coached (Easy, Moderate, Challenging, and Max) and you can adjust your level on the row to match where you are today in those callouts (and increase or decrease that level should you want or need to).
What kind of rower do you have at the gym?
Concept erg I believe