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PikeKing
21-01-2005, 23:39
Taken from uk.rec.bodybuilding

row: 1,000m
rest: 3 mins
row: 750m
rest: 2 mins 30 secs
row: 500m
rest: 2 mins
row: 250m
rest: 2 mins
row: 750m

Target time for premiership players is set at 11 minutes -- what can YOU
do:)?
BengDogg
22-01-2005, 07:52
Mine would be row 50m and die of boredomx1. I hat using rowers they are so dull
Fred
22-01-2005, 10:20
Mine would be row 50m and die of boredomx1. I hat using rowers they are so dull

exactly!

but if i had to i would be guessing around 1hour.
GoldenArrow
22-01-2005, 10:49
Well I did 1000m in 4.45ish the other day, but that was just cause I was bored so thought I'd row along with my client to keep her pace up. Never used the rower before.
Fred
22-01-2005, 10:53
Taken from uk.rec.bodybuilding

row: 1,000m
rest: 3 mins
row: 750m
rest: 2 mins 30 secs
row: 500m
rest: 2 mins
row: 250m
rest: 2 mins
row: 750m

Target time for premiership players is set at 11 minutes -- what can YOU
do:)?

There's 9 and a half minutes rest there, so all those distances have to be done in 90seconds :017:
GoldenArrow
22-01-2005, 10:56
Maybe the rest time doesnt count....?
Fred
22-01-2005, 11:08
I spose :miss:
maler
23-01-2005, 17:30
In an momet of maddnes I deside to give this go. Boy glad I use the machine by the raleing's colud bearly stand at the end.

Time 12m 13sec
Mean hart rate 184
Rower set on level 9.

Not a bad time could to better. I was too slow over the 1000m thus need to go hell in the night over the next 750m and 500m.
Hope to inpove on this before the end of April.
PikeKing
23-01-2005, 17:32
thats pretty good going big guy, you'll do better next time as you know what to expect, much faster than you thought
Knighty
23-01-2005, 18:21
1000 metres flat out his bloody hard in itself!

Still though, I could think of much more valid test for CV fitness in a rugby player
666
24-01-2005, 23:52
This wasn't the fitness test that was about a year or so ago. The supposed world wide test so all pro rugby players could be compared was shuttle runs over 5-10-15-20-25-30m a number of times (I think it was something like x1, x2, x1, x3, x2, x1 with 10secs rest in between) starting and ending lying chest down on the floor. Your total time and all split times were recorded so you couldn't pace yourself. You were supposedly meant to sprint them all. I almost died and wept like a baby :022: . Then we srummaged. :078: