Thursday, June 10, 2010

Weight adjusted times

Concept2 has a calculator that let's you see what your time on the water would be given your actual times from the erg and your weight. Weight to strength ratio is important because a rower needs to be able to push their own weight, or "get their weight out of the boat" as Carrie always says during suspension/drive/catch-placement drills.

here's the link to the calculator

weight adjustment calculator

7 comments:

  1. =D I Love that calculator lol That makes me feel a LOT better!

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  2. My old coach used to say that no one cared about weight adjustments except for lightweights. But whatever, he was a lightweight.

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  3. Also, I can apparently row a sub-seven, which I don't think is real accurate.

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  4. I'm sorry! One more thing:

    Your weight-adjusted score will be a pretty good estimate of your potential speed in an eight. If all eight rowers have the same adjusted score, then that eight should be capable of rowing that speed for a 2k race on the water—given perfect conditions and near perfect rowing effectiveness (nobody rows perfectly).

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  5. Oh. Em. Gee. I love this calculator!

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