Make the Most of Your Time on the Erg

From the USRowing Web site:

We just returned from a fabulous trip to Brazil – six days coaching in Porto Alegre and three days playing in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately, we’re back in the cold U.S. winter, where most of us will be rowing inside. So how to make the most of our time on the erg?

From my experience, the biggest mistake people make with the erg is that they only, or mostly, use it for testing and hard interval training. The erg becomes a painful experience and we learn to dislike it, often to the point of being afraid of it.

Instead, try to spend time on the erg doing steady state. I find the more I erg, the more I get into a rhythm and the easier, both mentally and physically, it becomes. Listen to music, books on tape, watch TV, but simply, spend time on the erg.

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