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They're just so efficient with the movement that they never really get pushed.

But put the same guy on a Concept2 rower or a WAP bike and look at the power output and look at what your heart rate is and look at these things and they're very measurable and there's no place to be efficient in.

It's just hard work.

and calculating over a period of time how to build their engine.

So let's get our machine set up and I'll talk to you about technique and all that kind of stuff during the row.

So go to resistance, drag factor, whatever you have on your machine, because you don't have to do this on a Concept2.

Just because this is the industry standard doesn't mean you have to use it, all right? Of course, this format is kind of like, there's a reason this is the best thing, because you can get into the right positions, but hey, I'm not here to sell Concept2s.

You want to feel nicely connected to the stroke, but you don't want to tug and heave against it because you've got it set too high.

At the same time, you don't want it so low that you don't really feel connected to it and you're like, am I rowing? Am I here? For the seat, I want you to sit more towards the front of the seat and more towards the front of your backside rather than the back of the seat and the back of the backside.

And that low intensity workout that I'm gonna do later will still deplete my sporting fitness, but it won't really touch my life fitness, life energy.

Does that all make sense? Is that a good way to put it? it's all about balance and unfortunately because again this is where the Jaguar thing pays off nicely because we like to go a bit more exciting but quicker it's like woo in a sports car it's really easy to be like I don't want to put it into cruise and just hold a slow pace I want to go fast baby but that's when you end up draining both tanks you're in the middle of the desert or the countryside wherever and you're stranded and that's the equivalent of you waking up one day and going I just can't today all right so the first way to control all of that is to look at your programming and the intensity that you're putting into each row but the second way is technique where efficiency comes from and so the most important thing I put periods between each of those words is to understand that certainly for Concept2 based rowing the machine isn't what controls your pace yes you can make the stroke feel heavier by increasing drag factor lifting your lever up that allows more airflow so that when you put power in the flywheel turns and needs to displace more air but that only happens if you put the power into the machine so I'm rowing at Two minutes, well, between eight and 10 right now.

Putting in just a solid push, but if I hold 20 strokes a minute, right, hang on, hold it, and then push lighter with my legs, I'm still rowing at 20 strokes a minute, but I've suddenly dropped What's that? 25 seconds pace because I wasn't powering into the stroke.

Or if, let's see how this works.

I've even had someone else come along to row on the machine.

Someone kind of stronger than they were.

to row in their Concept2 just to make sure it wasn't the machine at fault, like a calibration issue, which it really is.

It's hardly ever on a Concept2, it's hardly ever the fault of the machine.