I did some indoor rowing for cardio after I hit the gym yesterday, didnt even think to look at Apple Fitness+ for a class.
How did you like it?
Indoor Rowing
How did you like it?
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The programming is fantastic imo. Almost always based around some sort of intervals, but they vary a bit. Sometimes you'll get a high number of short/all out bursts and others will have longer sustained periods just short of all out effort. The latter will kill you lol.
With a C2, it can really be as hard or easy as you need though.
Going to give it a shot.
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They only have a couple instructors if I remember correctly. A guy and a girl. The girl goes hard.
I'll stay away from her.
I did a 20 minute rowing EMOM last night. Tried to be a badass and do 15 calories and then rest the for the duration of the minute. That lasted about 3 minutes until I cut it down to 10/cal a minute then rest.
I needed a few minutes before I got off the rower.
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Man, it can hit HARD can't it? Funny thing is, I think proper form is actually harder than bad form.
So freaking hard.
I hadnt been on a rower since I quit doing Crossfit back in 2020, so figured, hey that will be a nice change.
Kicked my ass. In a good way though. I think I found my solution to being bored with cardio after I workout. Adding in an Apple Fitness+ class will be nice to, those always make for some motivation.
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I think F+ does a great job of making cardio go fast. Intervals and build up periods make it feel like it's broken into a bunch of tiny segments.
Much better than just trying to knock out 30 minutes of mind numbing cardio on a machine. I used to be able to hop on the stair machine and go for 30 minutes listening to a podcast or something, now anything longer than 10 minutes and I am just staring at the timer.
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Blech lol. Sounds TERRIBLE
It is/was.
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You got this! Josh is pretty good. Helped with form quite a bit when I first started.
He looks a bit more tame than Anja. She looks like she wants to punish people.
First Apple Fitness+ Rowing workout tonight, and it pretty much kicked my ass. However, the 20 minutes flew by, and I definitely could have done a 30 minute one.
The way it broke the intervals up made it a lot of fun, even though it was pretty damn hard.
I will be doing more.
The way it broke the intervals up made it a lot of fun, even though it was pretty damn hard.
I will be doing more.
@War Eagle That Josh guy is an a-hole!! 
He gets a little too stoked for the abuse he's about to provide. I have a C2 and use either the AF+ or the Asensei app. I like what Johan Quie does in Asensei. It's an amazing workout regardless!
He gets a little too stoked for the abuse he's about to provide. I have a C2 and use either the AF+ or the Asensei app. I like what Johan Quie does in Asensei. It's an amazing workout regardless!
Josh will kick your tail with some of those intervals! Did a 20 minute workout last night, and he hit me with back to back to back intervals of :20 :30 :45 with like :10 rest in between. Brutal.@War Eagle That Josh guy is an a-hole!!
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Got a c2 for Christmas after I sold off some other unused stuff. Working on Pete's Beginner Plan. I'm in week 4 so far.
Is there still a THP group for the challenges at c2? I saw someone set one up earlier in the thread but I can't seem to find it through the app.
Can someone point to some info on the damper settings that is actually helpful? I have watched about ten different videos that all take 5-10 minutes to say the same thing that doesn't really help at all. The workouts vary so much on Pete's plan that it is hard to tell what differences I am seeing with changing the damper from one setting to the next. I was in such bad shape that I'm improving so fast that it is hard to compare a similar session at a different damper from even a few days ago.
Is there still a THP group for the challenges at c2? I saw someone set one up earlier in the thread but I can't seem to find it through the app.
Can someone point to some info on the damper settings that is actually helpful? I have watched about ten different videos that all take 5-10 minutes to say the same thing that doesn't really help at all. The workouts vary so much on Pete's plan that it is hard to tell what differences I am seeing with changing the damper from one setting to the next. I was in such bad shape that I'm improving so fast that it is hard to compare a similar session at a different damper from even a few days ago.
I have been toying with the idea of a 30 minute workout. I've been doing the 20 minute workouts daily since last Monday, and can typically breeze through them at this point.
I may have to give Anja a shot.
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To me at least, they fly by. This one was a bit of a grind, but mostly that was because I started counting down the intervals after the first one
Imo, Anja programs much tougher than Josh.
30 :30 intervals is A LOT.To me at least, they fly by. This one was a bit of a grind, but mostly that was because I started counting down the intervals after the first one
Imo, Anja programs much tougher than Josh.
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Honestly, I'd just rather do them and not have anybody tell me I'm going to be doing them lol.
I think Anja just tried to kill me.
She’s way tougher than Josh.
She’s way tougher than Josh.