Jump to navigation. Get the Workout of the Day delivered to your inbox every morning. The damper is the lever on the side of the flywheel housing, or fan cage, that controls how much air flows into the cage. The fan cages on our later indoor rowers Model C and later , are numbered so you can set the damper lever to a particular value from 1—10, indicating how much air is drawn into the cage on each stroke:.
Damper setting is similar to bicycle gearing: it affects how rowing feels but does not directly affect the resistance. A lower damper setting on the indoor rower is comparable to easier gears on a bike.
Many people confuse damper setting with intensity level or resistance. Instead, the intensity of your workout is controlled by how much you use your legs, back and arms to move the handle—in other words, how hard you pull.
This is true regardless of where the damper lever is set: the harder you pull, the more resistance you will feel. Because our indoor rowers use wind resistance which is generated by the spinning flywheel , the faster you get the wheel spinning, the more resistance there will be.
Think about rowing on the water. Post by hjs » October 5th, , pm. Post by Carl Watts » October 6th, , am. Post by OarConsequences » October 6th, , am. Post by jamesg » October 6th, , am. Post by Cyclingman1 » October 6th, , am.
Post by hjs » October 6th, , pm. Privacy Policy. Quick links. Optimal drag factor vs demographics data? General discussion on Training. How to get better on your erg, how to use your erg to get better at another sport, or anything else about improving your abilities. Post by OarConsequences » October 5th, , am I have been looking for a good source of hard data on what drag factor works best based on actual trials for people along with their height, weight, and gender.
For instance, C2's recommended drag factor of couldn't possibly be optimal for all pound 5'6" rowers and pound 6'6" rowers or even all point 5'6" rowers for that matter.
However, I'm sure that there are at least some loose correlations between height, weight, gender and the drag factor where they get the best times for a given piece. Does anyone know of a collection of data which plots demographics against drag factor? I know people might say that they like their drag factor to be at a certain number but I would like to see actual performance by the same person at different drag factors.
Re: Optimal drag factor vs demographics data? Post by Citroen » October 5th, , am That's not what drag factor is for. Drag factor is there so you can configure your ergo to match the drag you're going to get in a boat. The variability is there so you can set up for a 2, 4 or 8. Correlating for gender, height, weight isn't logical.
Post by OarConsequences » October 5th, , pm Regardless of the intent of damper setting, people certainly are not going to pull the same times with it set on 10 versus 5 versus 1, right?
And according to C2's own guidelines, weight, height presumably at least since their recommendations take age into account , and gender do play into the decision of where to set the damper. However, if you took thousands of people who row and had them each pull a 2K row at 10 different settings I would have a hard time believing that there are not clear peaks around certain drag factors for a given demographic ranges.
I'm just trying to find if anyone has compiled that data already. Post by Cyclingman1 » October 5th, , pm The subject of optimal drag factor has to be one of the most frustrating in this forum. Those two things are very different. I like comparing your drag factor setting to the gears on a bike. When you crank up the resistance, there is more potential for power production. There is going to be an individualized sweet spot for each person, where they have found through a combination of objective testing facts and intuition feel , which is subjective in nature.
Because neither can provide a complete picture for your correct drag factor, we need both. We have all seen someone get stuck in a high gear on a bike going up a hill, leaning side-to-side and pedaling through virtual molasses.
The Sport of Fitness is unique compared to other sports because the test is never the same. For a rower, swimmer or track star a m Race is always the same. Okay sure factors like weather, wind and other competitors play a role, but you get the idea. The point is these athletes know how to pace and optimize their performance because they have done their event hundreds of times.
However, in the Sport of Fitness you never know what the test will be. Every year in the Open, novel workouts are announced just a day or two at most before you complete them. The Sport of Fitness rewards athletes who are not just physically gifted, but those that are cerebral as well. Well, likely false.
Well…potentially…but I have a lot of questions that need answered before I can say that. Really you need to increase pace. In fact, sometimes this has an inverse return. This is something we will get into more during the Drag Factor Test.
It often is true, but probably not for the reason you think. While those things are different, they have a lot of overlap so even though you change the damper setting for the wrong reason, you might be right in the end.
Here at the key factors when deciding drag factor. In general, the more factors on the left side that accurately describe you the higher your optimal drag factor setting will be. This is often the most intuitive of the factors it tends to make sense to people , and it is likely the most important consideration in determining drag factor as well.
An athlete who is bigger in overall size height and weight will typically have a higher optimal drag factor. This is often a male athlete. Smaller lighter and shorter athletes simply produce less force so they will have a lower optimal drag factor setting.
If you get too much outside that, either on the light or the heavy side, I think you'll find you get diminishing returns and increased fatigue. But most of all, you should test using the same setting you train with because that's what your muscles have adapted to. I had to be very cognizant of the pickup so as not to hurt myself. That's a recipe for injury. I have done plenty of workouts on '0', which were required in college for athletes with any rib or back tenderness.
This setting feels similar to me. They might be better suited to a stronger pick up on the drive which would lend itself to a higher drag setting. Go max power for 10 strokes. Otherwise, continue for a total of 20 intervals. This is done with a drag factor set at or damper setting of Every stroke is full slide. This would be like doing a bungee row on the water. Drag factor, from what I gather, is.
So for 30 minutes or any long steady state workout I like It's enough resistance you have to work, but not so heavy that it becomes just a strong man contest. When I was younger I loved heavy settings because I had the raw power to just crank and it worked great.
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