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Negative Splits: What the Pacing Evidence Actually Says
What the pacing research actually supports about fast starts, even splits and negative splits, and why most of it comes from other sports and small samples.
Post-Test Recovery and Debrief: The Hours After the Piece
What to do in the hours after a hard erg test: replace the fluid and carbohydrate you spent, protect the night, let the soreness arrive, and write a debrief worth reading.
Race-Day Warm-Up for Indoor Rowing: The Dose, Not the List
A warm-up is a dose of heat, priming and rehearsal, not a checklist. Here is what the rowing-specific trials actually found, and how much of each is worth taking.
Ranking Scores and Percentiles: A Calm Interpretation
What a rank and a percentile actually measure: the list behind them, the gap they hide, and why one number is a snapshot of a pool that is rebuilt every May.
The 5K Erg Test: Why the Fast Start Is a Habit, Not a Finding
The go-out-hard opening is rowing's most copied habit and its least examined. Here is where it comes from, what it costs when it is measured, and how to test your own.
What Your 2K Actually Measures, and What It Does Not
A 2K measures the power you can hold for seven minutes. It does not tell you your boat speed, and reading anything else into it is where seasons get wasted.
What Makes a Test Repeatable
What a repeatable rowing test actually controls, how much of a 2k is measurement error, and what to do when the number moves.