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ROW PRO: METERS VS. CALORIES

During the past week I heard a few comments about rowing, many of which were not very positive. So as luck would have it a very good article appeared in the CrossFit Journal Friday dealing with rowing and how to approach it. Here is a portion of the article written by Emily Beers.

Peter Dreissigacker is the founder of the rowing company Concept2 Inc., a business he started with his brother Dick back in
1976. Concept2’s ergometer monitor has a built-in algorithm that wasdesigned to mimic the fluid resistance of a rowing shell going through water, Dreissigacker explained.

This means a monitor on the meters setting—as opposed to the calories setting forces a rower to work really, really hard to increase his or her speed, he said. “That’s what happens when you’re in a boat. It’s because of the drag on the water. This means you put a whole lot more effort in and you go just a little bit faster.”

Thus, rowing 500 meters in 1:45 can make you feel like you’re going to die, while going just five seconds slower over the same
distance barely hurts at all, he added. When you’re competing in the sport of rowing, it makes sense to go as hard as you can because the only goal is to move the boat faster—or to get the best possible time on the ergometer but using a rowing machine during a multi-modal CrossFit workout changes the game completely, Dreissigacker said. “The way the ergometer is designed … throws a wrench into CrossFit competitions, as it has created this whole dilemma of ‘how hard do you go?’” Dreissigacker explained.

To illustrate the point, Dreissigacker put together a theoretical graph that uses wattage and time to compare the ergometer to power cleans. Dreissigacker admitted his graph isn’t perfect as it doesn’t take a person’s body weight into consideration, nor does it consider the “internal efficiency of a person’s body,” he said. Limitations aside, Dreissigacker is confident the graph accurately highlights the effort-to-reward ratio when comparing rowing to power cleans.

Click HERE to see the complete article.