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Originally Posted by feel wrath
thanks!
I was definitely in pain and it would have been a max effort to get to or very close to 40.00 and I just didn’t quite have the intestinal fortitude for it.
I haven’t had a close look at your thread but I’ve seen that you row a lot and saw all your yearly PRs which look vg, so I’ll have to grind through and see what kind of sessions you do
Arjun and I both started out running the
Beginner's Pete Plan; it's pretty flexible and calls for training 3-5 times a week (as per your schedule/fitness).
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
Can you please help me out with your terminology...what do UT2, AT and TR mean?
Just shorthand for the heart rate zones as normally described by serious rowers; quick explainer and back of the envelope calculator
here.
UT2 (utilization training level 2) is "steady state", which is the low intensity aerobic work that should form the majority of your training. UT1, AT (anaerobic threshold), and TR (oxygen transport) are successively more intense (stroke rate goes up, heart rate goes up), and are therefore done less often as they require more recovery. Different coaches have different ideas of where each level should be based upon max HR or heart rate reserve or whatever (and it's individual for everyone), but the basic gestalt of "should be able to carry on a clipped conversation" and "heart rate drifting through the UT2 zone throughout the session, which for many is in the 125-150 bpm range" is as specific as I'd think old guy hobbyists like us need to get for steady state. My UT1 sessions are generally in the 22-24 spm range and on the order of 40-60 minutes. AT is programmed as endurance interval work (4x2k/5' rest is my next one), and TR as speed intervals (8x500 or 4x1k).
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Originally Posted by feel wrath
re the booze, I’ve honestly just picked up bad habits. We’ve been in lockdown and home isolation since mid Dec and wifey and I just got in the habit of having a beer or two and then opening wine (and I would sometimes move on to scotch).
I’ve always enjoyed drinking wine at home but it needs to stop for a whole load of reasons.
Sounds like my last two months, which is all the more lol since I went literally years only having a few drinks a month to having a bottle of wine a night. Bad habits are easy to slip back on, and like you I'm not really a "just have a glass" kind of guy.