I just joined a gym by my work, & I jumped on a rowing machine for 10-minutes yesterday for the first time in my 48 years on this planet. Judging by your catch & release videos, I masterfully nailed it immediately. Am I the greatest natural rower ever born? Likely....yes. Is another, very distant possibility that I just thought I was doing it well? No, that's not a possibility.
Thanks for doing this series. It's bone thing to have a machine and the desire to do better, and another thing entirely to have the skillet and true motivation. I'm way more motivated now that I have a base to work from.
New to rowing and new to your channel. Hugely helpful. I was doing it all wrong as evidenced by stroke rate of 34 for a 5k. Just starting to practice proper technique but already delivering more power. Dropped a minute on my 5k just slowing down to 24. Thanks!
Thanks Shane! Your channel was recommended to me by a friend and I can see why. I'm looking forward to spending many hours rowing with you. In the Catch Position, I need to have my elbows outside of my knees in order to keep my lats engaged. Is that OK?
Awesome Shane- these subtle things make a lot of difference- I paced @ 2.20/500 the other day and rowed 8.5Km, paced at 2.20/500 today and rowed 8.61Km. Difference was technique.
I just started rowing on my Concept2 machine. I know it's supposed to be a good leg workout but it seems that when I start the drive there's no tension as the flywheel seems to be coasting. All the force seems to come into play at the end of the stroke with the arm pull. Is my timing off?
Here’s what I think is going on. The great thing is that there’s an awesome drill that you can use to teach yourself how to work on getting a good catch and leg workout (link at the end)… The resistance on the drive comes from the position of your body at the catch. If you keep the shoulders in front of your hips when you push, that position is what gives you something to push against. The trick is that muscles between your feet and hands need to work to allow for that suspension. It’s why rowing is such a killer core workout (abs, glutes, lats, to name a few). The resistance is not in the drag factor/damper setting. The drag factor just slows the flywheel down so the load feels heavier with the muscles you’re currently using. If you want to feel a really heavy load, learn to *suspend* your body weight between your hands and feet. That’s the crux of rowing efficiently. Don’t believe me? Try the drill in this video, paying close attention to what Erin Cafaro is saying. Once you feel it, that makes it 💯 clear, without words. Good luck! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t5G0mna0zaw.html
You are an entertaining communicator, with that being said; I'm sure you are more than intelligent enough to find other phrases to use to take your listeners to the next thought or topic. With that being said, you wont sound like all the other RU-vidrs.
Thanks Shane! Really well explained! I just started going to the gym and getting acquainted with the rower and really loving it! The only problem is the my gym coach who told me I should stack my shoulders on top of my hips (no mouvement of the upper body at all) and the handled should finish in front of my belly button . He also said that if I'm moving my upper body I may risque damage to my backbone discs. Now I'm 34 and a bartender for 14 years so no stranger to back pain. Is he right? Thanks for your answer and keep up the videos😁
Nope! I know it’s hard, but try to ignore your arms at the catch and banish the word “pull” from your mental picture of the drive. That’s why Shane’s tagline is “push, don’t pull”. If you watch this video and try the drill, I think it will become clearer. Lmk what you think. I’m curious to know if it helps! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t5G0mna0zaw.html
I think I see what ive been doing wrong. When I push off, I go back sort of wildly, like there isnt enough tension to resist my push. So my arms have to absorb that just to keep things moving. Should I go up to 5 or 6 on the wheel?
I don’t think the damper setting is the root cause of your issue. Like everyone I know who learned to row, the trick in finding the resistance is learning to FEEL the suspension of your body weight between your feet and hands at the catch. Try the drill in this video, paying close attention to the words Erin uses…I think it will make it clear ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t5G0mna0zaw.html
@@jessdicarlo7159 I understand exactly what you’re saying. It took a lot of rowing and “feeling” to figure it out. Now that I have it’s an entire body workout
@@jamiegregory6981 that’s so great that you figured it out in such a short time! It took me several years of frustration til I found that bodyweight suspension drill 🤦♀️
