When to Exhale and Inhale?

[gregsmith01748]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjH3inybxSQ

I note this guy (closest to camera) exhales on Recovery and inhales on the Drive...

ROmper

But only for the first minute or so. After that he exhales at the catch "Hoo" and at the finish "hee". By the end, he was also apparently breathing through his eyeballs! A lightweight throwing down a 5:54 2k world record!

[hjs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjH3inybxSQ

I note this guy (closest to camera) exhales on Recovery and inhales on the Drive...

ROmper

Pound for pound one, if not they best erger ever. And nice to see that his technique is not textbook. One could say he pulls way to early with his arms. Don,t think its holding him back. although I heard experts saying it is. Proberly just talk.
Re breathing, not for a second he will think about that.

And look after his race, guys like him simply don,t get tired that much, they are aerobic machines..

[Fro]

"Exhale as you drive back; inhale as you recover forward."

This is how I breath.

[DanielJ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjH3inybxSQ

I note this guy (closest to camera) exhales on Recovery and inhales on the Drive...

ROmper

Pound for pound one, if not they best erger ever. And nice to see that his technique is not textbook. One could say he pulls way to early with his arms. Don,t think its holding him back. although I heard experts saying it is. Proberly just talk.
Re breathing, not for a second he will think about that.

And look after his race, guys like him simply don,t get tired that much, they are aerobic machines..

Hmm, I think I try to be very solid with my technique so maybe too picky for some, but I find Henrik's arm work there to be fine. Yes, he tenses them up early, but the actual arm contraction comes later and is in pretty much perfect timing.

Lots of the lightweight ergers seem to stroke like this: the legs-back-arm phases overlap each other, so those three components seem less pronounced.

Henrik leans back a bit more than most, too, but again I see that a lot in some of the shorter rowers. Hamish Bond does the same thing, and more so with longer tests.


Re breathing, I seem to have been doing it very successfully throughout my life, even when I'm asleep, and I was even very good at it when I was a newborn baby. I'd rather not waste conscious thought on trying to control it.

[Oldibtgdy]

Xeno was the first I remember making a big deal about coaching breathing -- and he maintained inhale-drive, exhale recovery (maybe catch breath, exhale, big inhale, exhale). I was doing the opposite, but decided to try Xeno's approach. Found I like it, and it helps some largely postural problems I'd been messing w for years. Clearing shoulders at the finish? Easy. Nice straight back at finish? Yup. Head up at finish? Yup. Nice, compact and in full control at the beginning? Yup. Now, if I could just speed it all up out of bow! Oh -- slow pieces in the boat, watching hr w the two breathing techniques? I think I saw a 5 or so bpm increase w exhale on drive exercise and I sure like how much taller I feel out of bow inhaling like a freight train.

[grahamcawood]

I recommend 2 breaths per stroke - ALWAYS. Exhale INTO the catch, and the release. Relaxed mouth breathing. And do 1:1 work: recovery , at 25+ spm. NO pausing. Watch the experts.
You might also like to try the following: Layback at the catch- do the heavy leg push while laid back. Finish the legs and arms TOGETHER. Legs are NOT held down, and rebound. Hands fast away to clear the rising knees. Arms relaxed and bent during the recovery, only straightening for the catch. Back relaxed and curved throughout.
This is my technique for the daily 30 minute ergs.
Have fun.