Concept2 Forum

I agree that you should get an hour with a personal trainer to assess your range of motion, body fat, diet and training goals. The mistake many people make lifting weights is focusing too much on building "beach muscles" by focusing on curls, crunches, and triceps isolation exercises. There's nothi...

Yesterday was my first day on the water and coach is emphasizing sitting tall - which for me means really strengthening and stretching my mid and lower back as well as hamstrings. Traditionally, they've always been very tight - esp. the hamstrings. I worked on this during the winter on the erg and i...

Eric, From the female perspective...... First - rowing is one of those sports you can do for decades. At 14, I know it seems like the kiss of death to be 5'8" and 114 but you've got a lot of growing to do. Even if you don't gain much in inches, you'll fill out - just do it the smart way. If you end ...

Aside from increasing my fitness level, lowering my times and loosing weight (like that isn't enough), I'm really trying to focus on improving my technique this winter. I’ve found that when I'm on the water - either in the throws of a hard race or hard practice, my technique fails me when I get tire...