Although in-season conditioning becomes more sport-specific when it comes to athletes of certain sports, incorporating a good rowing program to your training schedule can also be extremely beneficial. With hockey already being a high-impact sport, rowing offers a full-body, low impact option […]
How People with Disabilities Can Use Rowing to Train Despite Movement Limitations As I stood there watching him row, it was like my brain was seeing rowing for the first time again. There he was grinding away at the workout, smoking […]
Why Rowing Can Be a Useful Tool For Cyclists If you’ve ever felt the draw of endurance sports, there a good chance that cycling in one form or another has made its way into your regimen. Whether it’s road, mountain, […]
How to Program the Monitor for Single Distance and Time, Intervals Distance and Time, and Intervals Variable When sitting down on the Concept2, you no doubt have an idea of what you’re going to do. Whether you want to or […]
Most people understand potential as an unrealized ability. In our case, that ability is our fitness and reaching the best possible results on the rowing machine. While being effective and efficient leads to improvement, it doesn’t show you the current limits of your performance ability. Everyone […]
Countless times I hear athletes at the gym say “I’m bad at rowing because I’m short” or being more dramatic, “I hate rowing because I’m short”. On the other hand, tall people are perceived as being good or even excellent rowers based on their height alone. […]
The Concept2 performance monitor plays an important part in your training. It provides you with stroke-by-stroke data. The data shows your split, stroke rate, and final time for each piece you complete in a session. Whether it’s a 500-meter time trial or a […]
Coaching a group recently, we got a question about why the technique someone had just learned didn’t make them faster. It’s a legitimate question and it comes up frequently. Why is this thing you just learned not creating immediate change? It’s […]
Rowing is a total body workout that uses 86% of the muscles in your body. As a cardio workout, it burns calories which leads to a healthy heart. In fact, it’s such an efficient workout that NASA astronauts train with rowing. […]
Unless you consider yourself a rower or are aspiring to be one, there’s no reason that you should care about rowing. The sport itself can be truly fascinating if you really dig into it, but by and large, most people […]
