I am a novice girl rower (14) for a competitive East Coast team, and my erg scores are kind of random. My 5k and 2k erg scores are in the top five normally but when we do a 10k (my first was 2:11) I come in first every single time by a lot. This wouldn’t be a problem but my coach always tells me that I need to use the power from the 10k in the other pieces. I really have no idea what changes in the 10k and as much as I’ve tried I can’t figure out how to do it and my coach is stressing me out.
Talk to your coach. Coaches can be really terrible at explaining what they mean when they say something like this and don’t tend to realize how much it stresses their athletes out. Explain to him that you don’t understand what he means and it’s frustrating you so you’re hoping he can clarify it for you.
I kind of understand what he’s saying about using the power from one piece for another, but 10ks and 2ks are like apples and oranges. It’s hard to compare the two because how the body approaches to them is so different.
FYI – the link that you start with is protected by a username / password, presumably because it’s an edit link.
Ah, thanks! I accidentally posted the link I was writing it in instead of the actual link to the post. Got it fixed now. 🙂