{"id":11318,"date":"2016-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkhorserowing.com\/test\/the-best-way-to-improve-your-rowing"},"modified":"2020-01-09T03:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:29:23","slug":"the-best-way-to-improve-your-rowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkhorserowing.com\/the-best-way-to-improve-your-rowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Way to Improve Your Rowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s easy to say you\u2019re good at rowing. Not many people know the difference, and if your score is fast enough on the Concept2 no one will question it.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I\u2019ve also seen some pretty horrific back squat technique from people who can put up big weight, though.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What it takes to improve is no more or less than any other movement to which you give credence.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What it takes is leaving your\u00a0ego at the door and committing to learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do the best you can with what you\u2019ve got. No one can blame you for that. As with your snatch which you spend countless time drilling with an empty barbell so too should you be spending time at a damper setting 1 on the Concept2 erg drilling phases of the movement and learning how to connect really well with a Concept2 if that\u2019s what you use.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take the time to learn WHY you\u2019re doing ANYTHING you\u2019re doing. Learn about the phases of movement, learn about how to approach a specific workout, learn what it means to go 50%, 75%, or 100% on the Concept2 and how that translates to split. And <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ii0t1mW1MF0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">if you don\u2019t know what split means, find out<\/a>, it\u2019s a really important number for you to understand when you\u2019re rowing.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You\u2019re good. You can be as good as you want to be. Height, weight, or gender aside. Take advantage of your greatest attribute, the ability to learn and apply it to <\/span>rowing<span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is how you improve your rowing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to say you\u2019re good at rowing. Not many people know the difference, and if your score is fast enough on the Concept2 no one will question it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also seen some pretty horrific back squat technique from people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Best Way to Improve Your Rowing - Dark Horse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/darkhorserowing.com\/the-best-way-to-improve-your-rowing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Best Way to Improve Your Rowing - Dark Horse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s easy to say you\u2019re good at rowing. 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