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Originally Posted by Rich Muny
Good job Monte. Do you know how many calories you burn in a typical rowing workout (or, preferably, how many you typically burn over some length of time or training intensity)? I think that could help us non-rowers compare it to other types of training.
I assume it's a good burn rate. Your average and max heart rates often exceeds (and almost always at least equals) what I get on a bike ride (147 bpm avg / 164 bpm max on a recent 72 minute ride). For that ride, my Apple Watch says I burned 774 kcal net and 930 kcal total (I log the net).
Also, what do all those abbreviations mean? Google wasn't that helpful. I get the the other rowers are following along just fine, but many of us non-rowers just see you're training hard.
Thanks!
Re: calorie burn, I don't really track or pay attention, but C2 calculates it based on your weight and data from the machine. It looks like my last UT2 was ~930/hr and UT1 was ~1100/hr. AT and TR vary depending on the specific piece, but you get the idea.
By your next post, it looks like you got the gist of the training zones, but for the rest of the no doubt numerous lurkers, one interpretation is below:
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Originally Posted by Rich Muny
My best guess:
A ten minute warmup, followed by 60 minutes at UT2 (~55% or 60% - 70% max heart rate). 14,558 meters total (not counting the warm-up), at 16.1 strokes per minute, for a rate of 2:03.7 minutes per 500 meters.
500 meters / 2:03.7 minutes * 60 minutes = 14,551 meters, so at least that math works. OTOH, I haven't figured out the heart rate part, as 70% of 177 MHR doesn't seem to correlate to 163 HR. And, no clue on LD30.
You're correct everywhere; LD30 is just the 30th loading day (my coach's terminology - work days are loading days, recovery and/or light days are unloading days - typically I just row very easily for 30', go for a walk with the family, and/or bring the boys to the park or something).
Re: HR, the first number is a rough average (C2 pulls the last number in each section of the row - five minutes in this case - and averages it) and the second is the highest HR for that session. Based on what I've done over the last 18 months, my true max is probably 195-200, but I haven't tested it.
Re: the HR bands associated with the various training zones on the chart, Gardner thinks those are mostly bullshit, and that while they may apply over the population level, there's enough individual variation that just trying to get the correct feeling and stroke rate down for each training band and collecting data on what corresponds to you specifically is better. Before signing up with him, I was really concerned with keeping my UT2 HR under 150 and all that, but he doesn't think it's valuable to worry about (yet).
Cardiac drift over a session is obviously expected/fine, and as long as the intensity feels fine, I have the green light to go; as I said earlier, he likes to gradually ramp up the pace during a piece. I posted a graph of pace/stroke rate/HR from a session a few weeks ago, and the gradual synchronous increase in all 3 is what he wants. It definitely feels better than just ramming myself into a wall immediately.