Ep 73 - 2K Plan Week4 S2 - 5 x 5 minute Hard Intensity - Indoor Rowing Workout

Develop your ability to hold your speed with this hard tempo row. This places as a MID tier workout on the Training Intensity Pyramid🚣 5 x 5 minutes at 28 strokes per minute with 3 minute rests between 🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+5 (see below for 2K training pace info)➔Effort = 7-8/10➔Speech = Tough

❗  The point of this workout is to get you to a point where you need to hold on and push to get to the end of each interval, but it won't be so tough that you don't think you can finish. By the end of Intervals 4 and 5 you'll be stretching your ability to keep the pace, but you'll still be able to. ❗

It WON'T feel easy. But at the same time, it shouldn't feel like a Top Tier training intensity workout until the last 1 or 2 minutes of the last interval. And if you get towards the end of the 4th and 5th interval and don't think you're working hard enough - feel free to increase the pace closer to 2K+2. 

If you'd rather see me than just listen to me, the YouTube video link for this row is: https://youtu.be/b8kK5kNiHcE

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ℹ - 2K training paces are based on your current best performance to row 2000m. Set your monitor to 2000m and row it as fast as you can. When you're finished either look at the memory screen for that row, and note the Average /500m pace - or just divide your time by 4 to find that out. 

For instance - if you rowed your 2000m in 8:20​ - the average pace for 500m is 2:05​. It doesn't matter if you started at 1:50​ and then slowed down to 2:20​ by the end - your average across the whole row is 2:05​. 

So when I give a pace guide saying "2K + 18 seconds" - that means that you take your 2K time, and add 18 seconds to it (in the above example, 2:05​ + 18 = 2:23​ pace.) Just be sure to set your monitor so it displays your /500m pace so you can stay on target.

Every time you think you're getting faster, rather than just arbitrarily changing the pace guide - do another 2000m test to find your current 2K average time - and then work from that.  ℹ

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