Why Your Rowing Form Still Sucks! 

If you want MORE meters for FREE when rowing, you gotta stop pulling each stroke.
Rowing is a pull, right? In most contexts, YES. But in the contexts of rowing on a ROWING MACHINE, the stroke is very much NOT a pull!
It’s a PUSH. Every stroke starts with a leg push. And while many have HEARD that before, most still struggle to execute the leg push properly.
Most end up with a sort of “push legs AND pull arms at the same time”-hybrid type of movement! I personally was guilty of this for YEARS when I was rowing in college.
But a true rowing PUSH with the legs means that your torso stays LEANED forward for the first half of the rowing stroke. If you lean back AT ALL during the leg push, you miss out on the power of the hip swing.
But if you swing AFTER a leg push and THEN pull, that’s where the magic happens! I like to think of it as “earning the right to pull” each stroke. You only earn it if you push, then swing first!
I hope that makes sense… this takes some SERIOUS practice and intention. But it will pay off for you in the long run! Let me know your thoughts…
Love always,
Coach Austin

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