Feb 24 2010
My First Erg Week
With James being an ERG monster with close to 500K meters on his belt I figured I’d blog a bit on what he long forgotten which is how it feels to be an ERG newbie who just started. To begin ERGing follow these easy 5 steps:
- buy a decent condition “concept 2” rower on craigslist
- sneak it into the house when wife and kids are out
- somehow convince wife to let it stay in the corner of the living room (because you know it will not be used a lot if its in the basement)
- row 10K while watching TV
- repeat step 4
I managed to row 80K so far and most of my body parts are in agreement, the exception is my lower back which screams at me to stop around 5K in.
Being an ERG novice I already managed to make some mistakes. After taking the seat out for cleaning I put it back the wrong way in. This introduced friction in very wrong places. Initially I convinced myself to “tough it out”. It took my tail bone 20K to realize the bump in the chair should not be there. Scratch that to another learning experience.
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