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One more useful site: get a program for yourself: http://concept2.co.uk/training/interactive

On measuring and improving peak power: http://peakcentre.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/peak-power-the-limiting-factor-to-rowing-performance/ More on 2K improvements (a series of articles): http://www.ergrowing.com/2k-erg-library/

Two things...you want to slide up with the boat; think about letting the boat come to you (that's what our coxes always say). Also, by practicing with your feet out on the erg, you'll get used to using your hamstrings to pull you up rather than pulling on your feet. As your stroke rate moves up, it does get almost…

What a story. You have done something that most people would say is impossible. Outside MFP, most "fat" people are condemned to stay that way forever. Weight is often a reflection of what is going on internally, and losing it is much harder than the simple equation of "eat fewer calories than you expend." You expressed…

This is one of those comparisons that makes me sure I would not have known you after if I'd known you before. Amazing. It's so good to see that people can actually accomplish this kind of goal. You are a great model for success! Thanks for posting!

I've been in maintenance since August. At that point, I decided I could go it without MFP, but the weight crept up by a couple pounds, and so I jumped back on here. I'm almost 54, and it seems as though it's easy to gain weight without trying at this age. I'm 5'9.5" and this morning hit 146 for the first time since my…

I have the same issues. If you like having support in writing, you might see whether your library has any of Kathleen DesMaisons' books. She wrote Potatoes Not Prozac and Your Last Diet, among others. She gives a sort of 12 or 10 - step plan (can't remember which) for dealing with sugar addiction. She starts by suggesting…

Thanks for laying out some ideas! I just googled Terry O'Neill. He's a former Olympic rowing coach. I guess he probably really does know what he's talking about, both in rowing and in aging! He's certainly used to working with younger people.

Make your own from organic whole milk. (Once you get the method down, you can use reduced fat milk.) Get some "real" plain yogurt (nothing in it but cultures and milk). We usually use Nancy's at our house. Buy whole milk, maybe just a quart, for your first batch. Eat all but about half a cup of the yogurt. Heat the milk up…

So cool! I'm betting you might not be able to be on two teams at once, but maybe you could switch just for the month to fill out the MFP group. 12K a day?! That's fabulous!! If you added just one extra short day (4 or 5 K) a week this month, you'd make the 200K holiday challenge.

Bumping to show my bro-in-law. As everyone keeps saying, these shots are amazing. You guys look younger, HOT, and way happier.

Hmm...I think you'd be making the right choice there!! But on the other hand, get this: you can find a machine there and row. It doesn't have to be a concept2...

I forgot to say that once you have added your profile and joined the MFP team, you have to go to the team challenge page: http://log.concept2.com/log_team.asp and say that you'll be participating in the January challenge. It's called the VTC challenge (Virtual Team Challenge).

Hurray! I think mcrower will join too. I forgot to say that once you have added your profile and joined the MFP team, you have to go to the team challenge page: http://log.concept2.com/log_team.asp and say that you'll be participating in the January challenge. It's called the VTC challenge (Virtual Team Challenge).

Please excuse me for breaking in here off topic, but I started up an MFP Friends team on the concept 2 team page, hoping that lots of other MFP rowers would like to join and do the January challenge together. All you have to do is sign on and choose the MFP team. It's open. Then sign yourself up for the challenge. I'm…

I have the same breakfast every day...it has sweet and crunch and cool and smooth all in one bowl: 1/3 c five-grain cereal, uncooked 1 T flaxseed 2 t sunflower seeds 14 almonds (usually chopped up) 1/2 c frozen blueberries 1/3 c homemade whole milk plain yogurt 1/3- 1/2 cup soymilk or almond milk It keeps me going all…

I am going for longer distances right now to try to get a basic fitness level built up, but once a week or so I might do a set of intervals. I was listening to the breathing and asking about it during interval workouts and speed workouts this summer on the water. Hadn't occurred to me that it might be different in long…

I haven't read the article, but our young coach was rowing behind me one day and I asked him about his interesting breathing pattern...he said that his team breathed in on as they recovered, then breathed out most of the air on the catch and a final huff out right at the release. Sorry to weigh in without doing the…

bump I made the crepes someone suggested the other day (1 banana, 2 eggs, mix well and cook) and they were fabulous, for those of us wishing for a simple way to still eat crepes. I can't wait to try these!

I'm not particularly scared by being at the end of this particular weight-loss trek, just a little concerned because of my history of going up and down over the years, always gaining back everything I have lost and more. I've now returned to the size and shape (mostly :-)) I was in 27 years ago, when I was first running…

Icon 699, Congratulations! That's awesome. I love this machine too, even though I have a B and it takes some special care. It gives me a workout! Do you know about the Concept2 logbook? I'm having fun posting my rows there.

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6K this morning; going for 10 tomorrow at our erg to check whether I'm really being accurate with my unmonitored home rows.

Last summer, the weight was staying off really easily, so I didn't think I'd ever need to log again. Now I'm up to the weight that was my original goal weight (when the weight was falling off, I increased the goal). I realize that in the summer, I was often exercising more than two hours a day, and doing intense workouts…

Oops...so that didn't work...(iPad and my fingers post too fast). We're going to the in-laws too for an extended visit to, in a house where there is also lots of sweet stuff around. As soon as possible into the visit, I'll take a look at what's in the fridge and get some of what keeps me sane as soon as we make a grocery…

Today: 6K.

Even with a relatively small weight loss, I'm freezing too...except on days when I exercise in the morning. I bike to work (at 10 degrees this morning), but gentle exercise doesn't work for me. Besides wearing wraps and sweaters and tights under my pants, the other way I've learned to get warm is to do weights regularly to…

I had strep throat the last three weeks. Once I was diagnosed and on antibiotics, I decided that I'd probably better not be rowing. Or biking. Now I'm through the antibiotics, I am cautiously starting up again! Yesterday during the election results, I put in 5,000 meters. Hurrah! The machine felt really easy. Maybe it's…

Today I rowed for forty minutes, with a five-minute break in the middle to get the TV working! I have had some good talks lately with rower and runner types. I've decided that I am going to do exactly what I'd planned earlier: 5K rows (approximately) in the mornings, and 10K rows on the weekends. I'll pick one weekday…