Rowing

[AZOffaly]

It's the big Seine boats they use. I'm not sure if Mick O'Connell rowed for 'sport', I know he rowed into Cahirciveen from Valentia for training and things. In fairness that was probably quicker than cycling to Portmagee and back in the Ring of Kerry road.

[blast05]

On the concept 2, my PB's......
2,000m: 6 mins 35.9sec
10,000m: 37 mins 01 sec (could never break 37 mins)
1,000: 3 mins 0.4 secs  ....... now this one really broke my balls, i.e.: i could never break 3 minutes.

There are world records on the concept 2 site.

[Aerlik]

I was using rowing (1,000m in 5 minutes) then cycling (10mins) then running (2kms at 13speed) as my normal gym aerobic stuff interspersed with chin-ups and fitball situps, before hitting the weights until I tore the feckin right rotator cuff tendon/ligament back in December. Now I can neither row or do the chins.  I think rowing is a superb warm-up exercise and hats off to Steve Redgrave cos how the hell he has competed and won at 5 Olympics I'll never know.

A mate, an ex-boxer who swears by chins, push-ups and sit-ups got me on to the chin-ups in a big way.  I was of the auld belief that the maximum number I could do in one hit  showed me how fit I was.  Crap.  He put me on to sets starting off with 3 X 2, then 3 X 3, and gradually building up until I was doing over 25 chins in a session with 30 sec and 1 minute breaks in between.  Sure as hell builds the strength up in your mid and upper back and shoulders and upper arms.