1:22 155, 155, 155 One chance is all I gave myself, having faultered the last time I attempted to exceed my previous best. There comes a point when you can no longer afford to pace yourself. Strategy is impotent against a true test of fitness or work capacity. The only way to exceed a personal record on certain tasks, i.e. fran, 500 mtr row etc is to go as fast as you can until you finish. Pain is inversly proportional to time, that is, as one increases the other decreases. This is how I went from 1:24 to 1:22. Despite the anxiety, the pacing back and fourth, and the preliminary excuses for not meeting my objectives I simply had to move into uncharted territory in order to get what I wanted. Doing it was the only thing keeping me from doing it. It still surprises me how one ostensibly amiable machine can provoke so much anxiety. Who gets nervous before getting on the stairmaster or superglider or recumbant bike or abdominizernator? I will venture to say that, in the conventional fitness industry, a machine's use is inversly proportional to its efficacy. This would explain why C2 Rowers in most globocrap gyms are in the corner suffering from lack of use disease. Meanwhile there is a waiting list to get on the crapoglider. Some of the machines are even counterweighted so that retraction is done by the machine and not the muscles of the unsuspecting user. Perhaps an orphanage for abandoned C2s would be a good idea. Anyway, for pure mental dissection and physical performance the C2 is the best machine on the market and most accurate gage of objective work (rowing) capacity. Get on it, get into your head, use it as a tool, go to work on yourself, and determine if you have what it takes to exceed your limitations. If you get stuck in a globogym like I have just look for the lonely C2 in the corner and give it some love.
Nice job shaving two seconds of your PR. Two is a lot for such a short, painful haul. I still tell the story of the day we both went for a 1000m PR and I literally was unable to walk for 15 minutes afterwards (thought I'd done permanent nerve damage). The only humorous part was me watching you get off in pain, and thinking "Geez, he must not be that great a rower"...five minutes later the thought was "Am I a pussy if I ask them to call me an ambulance?"
The funny thing is that I refer to that day when considering another pr attempt at 1000 mtrs but can't seem to subdue the anxiety that comes from anticipating the commensurate pain. It's almost as though the failure would be too much to handle. Since you brought it up though I'm going to make the promise of sub 3:00 1000 before the end of this year.
And I'll commit to a sub 1:20 by year end. I've seen all the rowing videos, and I've tried more "efficient" technique. However, the Fly-and-Die is the only way I know to PR the death sled.
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One chance is all I gave myself, having faultered the last time I attempted to exceed my previous best. There comes a point when you can no longer afford to pace yourself. Strategy is impotent against a true test of fitness or work capacity. The only way to exceed a personal record on certain tasks, i.e. fran, 500 mtr row etc is to go as fast as you can until you finish. Pain is inversly proportional to time, that is, as one increases the other decreases. This is how I went from 1:24 to 1:22. Despite the anxiety, the pacing back and fourth, and the preliminary excuses for not meeting my objectives I simply had to move into uncharted territory in order to get what I wanted. Doing it was the only thing keeping me from doing it. It still surprises me how one ostensibly amiable machine can provoke so much anxiety. Who gets nervous before getting on the stairmaster or superglider or recumbant bike or abdominizernator? I will venture to say that, in the conventional fitness industry, a machine's use is inversly proportional to its efficacy. This would explain why C2 Rowers in most globocrap gyms are in the corner suffering from lack of use disease. Meanwhile there is a waiting list to get on the crapoglider. Some of the machines are even counterweighted so that retraction is done by the machine and not the muscles of the unsuspecting user. Perhaps an orphanage for abandoned C2s would be a good idea. Anyway, for pure mental dissection and physical performance the C2 is the best machine on the market and most accurate gage of objective work (rowing) capacity.
Get on it, get into your head, use it as a tool, go to work on yourself, and determine if you have what it takes to exceed your limitations. If you get stuck in a globogym like I have just look for the lonely C2 in the corner and give it some love.
Nice job shaving two seconds of your PR. Two is a lot for such a short, painful haul. I still tell the story of the day we both went for a 1000m PR and I literally was unable to walk for 15 minutes afterwards (thought I'd done permanent nerve damage). The only humorous part was me watching you get off in pain, and thinking "Geez, he must not be that great a rower"...five minutes later the thought was "Am I a pussy if I ask them to call me an ambulance?"
ReplyDeleteJust a delightful piece of kit.
The funny thing is that I refer to that day when considering another pr attempt at 1000 mtrs but can't seem to subdue the anxiety that comes from anticipating the commensurate pain. It's almost as though the failure would be too much to handle. Since you brought it up though I'm going to make the promise of sub 3:00 1000 before the end of this year.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll commit to a sub 1:20 by year end. I've seen all the rowing videos, and I've tried more "efficient" technique. However, the Fly-and-Die is the only way I know to PR the death sled.
ReplyDeleteOk it's on!
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