I started rowing 4 weeks ago, along with swimming, treadmill walking, some weights occasionally. With no change in diet and have lost 9inches over body, mostly bust and thighs. I'm really surprised and it's motivated me to do more and improve my techniques
This indeed is one of the very best erg instructional videos for real rowers. The tap down is there, it's just very minimal. You don't need to drive your hands into, as someone said, "your crotch" at the finish because in a real shell on the water you immediately feather the oar at the completion of the stroke. All you need is to lower your hands just a tiny bit to get the oar out. Even without the tap down the oar would simply skip/slide on the water during the recovery. I have seen some bad videos here and this is a great video for erg training for "on-the-water" rowers.
OK, set my timer for thirty minutes to do an experimental run to get a rhythm. Way over thought everything and probably looked like a two-left-foot beginning dancer but, then about twenty minutes in i had that "AHA!" moment and got the rhythm. You'd think a simple process like rowing would be a cinch right off the bat. Now going to work it mornings instead of running (I'd rather get beating with an ax handle than run) along with a regular lifting regimen and get myself back in shape. Thanks for the tip!
Thank you! Your instructions are great! You covered everything from A to Z! I feel a lot more confident about using the machine at my gym. And the outdoor setting is very nice. Again, thank you and thanks to the athlete/model for demonstrating the complete process. 😀
Her elbows in my view are not in the perfect position at the finish. The wrists should be flat all the way through from the catch to the finish with elbows roughly parallel to the water at the finish.
Technique is everything. I’ve had my Concept 2 since 2017, but recently I got off somehow in my form. Now I have one of the worst cases of tennis elbow imaginable. I can hardly lift my arm. Unable to do much of anything now. Be careful.
Newbie rower: I shaved 15secs off my 2000m (all be it a 7.45mins down from an 8.00mins) and got my strokes/min down to 23s/min from 34s/min. So, technique matters! This video served its purpose!
@charlesjungclaus Not necessarily, but a more powerful stroke with a slower recovery can be, and if you focus on doing your stroke fast and powerful, you'll slow down your recovery to be able to keep it up. Plus in a real boat, going through your recovery too fast will slow down the boat, so you want to do it slow anyway because that way you don't waste energy to slow yourself down.
Fantastic video. Love that you broke it down, and then analyzed it from multiple points, constantly reinforcing the form. Saved to watch before rowing for the first week or 2. Thank you.
You need to have space to square the oars early, at least that is what most coaches currently teach. Lowering the hands gives you room for square oars before the catch motion.
I discovered the rowing machine late in life, and I am grateful for this video. Seriously, I don't like exercise, but something about the rowing machine just feels right. Maybe it's the fact that it only goes as hard as I want it to. Dunno. Thanks for the vid!
Question for more experienced rowers. When I push back with my legs, it doesn't feel right as there is no or limited resistance from the machine (Concept 2). It seems to me the resistance starts when I begin pulling back with my torso and arms. Is this how it's expected to feel?
Do you have big strong legs? If so, yes. That is normal for a lot of people. I have giant legs like tree trunks, and when I row for aerobic exercise, it takes about an hour before the lactic acid starts to accumulate in my legs. Unfortunately I also have a scrawny upper body like a shrimp man, or the Before Guy who gets sand kicked in his face at the beach in those old Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension ads. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Perhaps the best video about rowing. 100% demonstration of the right technique unlike other videos where the talk is 80% and demonstration of technique is hardly 20% Kudos.
If you are bending your knees in our out as you are rowing you could easily hurt them. They need to go straight up or down...also if you kind of jump during the drive due to bad feet position, etc. you would also hurt your knees. But with good technique you really shouldn't be able to hurt your knees unless there is some previous gross injury.
Ive been rowing for a few months in my gym. I havent seen 1 person using the corrext technique or at least trying to use the correct technique. Find it amazing how no one knows how to use the machine properly. Also everyone has the machine set on level 10! Im always tempted to tell the person, use level 4 or 5. That replicates water and you will row so much futher with better form. I never do though
back in the day, when a person could cruise, I'd often do some c2 rowing on the ship. Most people did use proper form, but I would see the rower left on 10 quite often. People are clueless on that. I leave it around 4.
I am actually a national rower rowing for Adelaide University Rowing Club, head of regatta’s and would like to say that your technique is wrong, but some of it is correct. The oars at one o’clock must be below the ribs but above the legs, I also noticed that your back is not as straight at the finish position which is essential to row in. This comment is purely for younger rowers with less experience and in no particular insults towards you all I wanted to do was correct your technique so that younger rowers don’t grow up having an incorrect technique. Good luck for everyone out there
Please elaborate then. And what do you mean by not straight back at the finish, it should then be at 12 o'clock instead of 11? Or do you mean still at 11 o'clock but straight from the hips up, as one does during a deadlift (she seems to bend lower back slightly even at the beginning of the recovery, weird)?
Good video, I see this is Concept 2 official thing?? I used to be a rower and a state champion, although long time ago, as "cadet", I was around 15 yrs old. Concept 2, best and only ergometers! The only thing that cracks me up, she is rowing at ponton/raft, in the middle of good weather on the lake, LOL... We used to row ergometers off season, when it was cold. As soon as the weather became normal, we would be sent off to row in boats. I was best alone, rowing a skiff
@Concept2Australia N.B. this video appears to contradict the PM5 'how to row' animation which says 'lean back slightly at the end of ths stroke' whereas your video has the person leaning back well before the end of the stroke. Which is correct?!
In my opinion you missed the most important part: the initial part of the stroke should be done almost exclusively by your legs! The woman in the video does this, but it is not addressed in the explanation. The initial part of the stroke requires the most power because the boat has lost the most momentum at that point, so we use our strongest body parts, our legs, to overcome this, not our arms or back.
Her technique is perfect notice how she rows not in a straight line forward and backwards and how she rows legs body arms arms body legs as separate motions!! Well done
Excellent training video to learn from. Slow and repetitive so even the slowest of learners like me can understand what to do. I should have watched this video before hopping on my rower thinking I would just know what to do. I now will begin to work on breaking some obviously flawed techniques and start getting a much better workout. Thanks!
Thank you for the breakdown and review. She has great form. I just got my rowing machine and will utilize this video as a refresher if I feel my form lacking. Thanks again!!!
im going to hit the gym next monday and i will keep doing workout all the way until the last day of may next year!, i said i will get my body in better shape for next summer! im not fat and neither am i very skinny. have done situps like crazy back in my first school every evening at home and in my school where i learned to work, situps every evening! i do got a 6 pack , only gotta get bit more fit to get it perfectly showing.
There are benefits to each, similar to running. You can do time blocks, or even sprints, or longer, slower distances (e.g. 5k row). When sprinting be sure to maintain good form but focus on explosive power. You do not need to significantly increase your cadence to increase speed. Best bet is to mix them up, depending on your fitness goals and how much you include rowing in your workout.
