Improving stroke rate
Hello,
I'm fairly new to rowing, about a month in. I used to flirt a little with an erg in school but never seriously, but after uni I became a couch potato and lost a lot of endurance.
So i picked up the erg once more and I noticed that I'm significantly better on long distances than short ones:
PBs, all measured this week, C2, fan 4:
8:27.6 2k @20spm
6878m 30:00 @18
44:14.3 10k @17
It feels like i hit some sort of ceiling with my stroke rate / power output. If not for a push at the end of the 10k I could probably keep going at that pace for longer, but going just slightly higher will make me gassed in just a few minutes if not dozens of seconds.
I probably *can* pull harder at the 20ish spm to get a better split and it might be my cardio being ass that i can't keep it up for long, but i can't hold a casual split at 23-25 spm as it feels like i can't breathe without actually tiring myself that badly.
Any tips?
bio: 26M, 190cm (6ft2ish), 87kilos (190lbs), only casual sports besides rowing, no weight training as i hate it deeply, mildly anemic due to genetics but mostly just out of shape