Headed out to Heath’s this past Thursday to do some off-season training and to lay out the general plan for the next few months. Heath has an early and grueling European schedule this year leading up to Anaheim I. While this will certainly be good practice for the upcoming Supercross season, it pushes our training timeline up a bit. No worries. Heath is a machine and he loves training almost as much as he loves racing.
Two of the things that we utilize quite a bit in our training are the Concept2 rowing machine and the peg board. I’ve shown you my attempt at the peg board in a previous post but here is a short video of Heath doing it:
Now, as strong as Heath is on the peg board, his performance on the rowing machine is even more impressive. The video below shows Heath pulling 500 meters in one-minute and twenty-six seconds (1:26.9) which puts him in pretty good company even among seasoned rowers.
According to the Concept2 world rankings, his all-time best of 1:24 would place him in the top 50 in the world for his age group and weight class for 2009. Not bad for a guy that’s only been rowing for the last year or so. This is the off-season, too. Wait until he is in peak physical condition.
For those keeping score, Heath’s time on this row beat Travis Pastrana’s highly-touted 500m time by almost two full seconds. I think a showdown is in order. Travis?
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