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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw can't get below a 2:00 500m split without starting to mouth breathe

    S-sorry guys, I'll move out of the way..

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm going to be honest, this is a form issue. As a fat (205lbs) short (5'3") female (biological) I can easily do a 2:15 for 10k. I'm about to do it rn, as a matter of fact. You should have absolutely no issue getting sub 2:00 if your form is correct. Look up rowing standards on Concepts website. Find what you should be aiming for. Once you find that, go to concepts how to row area. Read it. Watch the videos. Learn to use the machine correctly and this won't be a problem.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        breasts or gtfo.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I don't know wtf I'm doing, I've only used it 6 times but I'm watching instructional videos in between. My last 5k I had a 2:03 avg, but I wanna get below 2 so people don't point and laugh.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >female (biological male)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Post breasts + timestamp or anything you manage to type is worthless nonsense. You know the fricking rules.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i doubt that a biological female would give solid advice, youre lying

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    how do i get into rowing?
    i think i would excel at it, since im a upper body dominant lanklet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Find a team or club, I have some in my area, the have a faceberg page, but some also have a website

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        isn't rowing one of those upper class sports that you only get into if mommy and daddy pay for everything of you're one of the lucky plebs that ended up at a high ranking institution?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          just like Tennis and Golf, no chance if you're not at least a millionaire's child

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          My dad was a sailors kid and qualified for the olympics before his leg got shattered by a car.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          just like Tennis and Golf, no chance if you're not at least a millionaire's child

          My club is 20€ a month and it has an amazing variety of boats, a weight room and ergs

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You know rowing is mostly legs and cardio right?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >mostly legs
        >on a boat
        >with your legs in the boot doing shit all

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You're moronic

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the seats in crew shells are on rails and you row with your entire body

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          the seat slides back and forth, you strap your feet to the boat, it really is almost all your legs and posterior chain, Kinda like cardio deadlifting

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Cardio cleaning akshually

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Ah true i guess its kinda more like cleans

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Rowing doesn't work arms?

      Rowing is more lower body. It’s a full body sport, but the legs are so massive by comparison to the other muscles used that it’s practically a lower body exercise. Forearms will be worked out if you were like me and had shit form with shit rowers and had to grip onto the oar slapping the water with your dear life.
      That said, there are plenty of rowers with great upper bodies. If you go in with a good upper body, you’ll use it. If you go in bottom heavy like I did, you will be super lower dominant.
      Monster cardio though.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pulled this on Sunday, try beat me. You can’t

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Jesus fricking Christ

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well done anon. That’s very impressive.

        I think my best 2k time ever was around 6:30, and that was on the varsity crew team in college when I was training year round. (It was a club sport, we weren’t elite or anything). Hitting a 6:30 2k was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

        god damn dude

        Thanks anons, that score took me 4 years of year-round training. Still not sub-6 tho, feels bad

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Post body anon, am interested in the results it brought you

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Pic rel from just now, 6’6” 99kg. Obviously I mostly do cardio

            What's up fellow rowing bros. I have hip problems so I started rowing for cardio and it feels fricking amazing. The gym I go to has the concept 2s and I really want to get one but I'm not trying to spend $900 on a rowing machine. Any recommendations for a less expensive rowing machine?

            The waterrower is the cheaper C2, but it’s shit. If you want to compare times online and not have the machine break every 2 months you need to wait for a cheap second-hand C2 to be available in your area. You could ask around at local clubs, too

            Very nice, three guys in my team can do sub six but two of them are fat. If you aren't, that's even more impressive

            Yeah I’m like 2kg over racing weight. If I cut down to 96kg then I get decent abs, but my rowing gets way slower. I’ll race around 97-98kg, whatever makes the boat go fastest

            Impressive, I’m 6:18 @84kg, looking to get close to 6 next year so I can have a stab at Henley diamonds and get on tv lol

            Yeah I’ll be at Henley, that whole week is always fun as frick

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Oof

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Damn, I'm almost exactly your height and weight (an inch shorter), way more buff and far slower on the erg. I really should train more. I mostly just row on the water and lift weights nowadays because my team is in the sprint league (Ruderbundesliga) but now I feel like a fraud, id probably be at 6:25 maybe right now

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Rowing doesn't work arms?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Hypertrophy wise, you'll get big legs, some upper back and forearms. Nothing else

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                [...]
                Rowing is more lower body. It’s a full body sport, but the legs are so massive by comparison to the other muscles used that it’s practically a lower body exercise. Forearms will be worked out if you were like me and had shit form with shit rowers and had to grip onto the oar slapping the water with your dear life.
                That said, there are plenty of rowers with great upper bodies. If you go in with a good upper body, you’ll use it. If you go in bottom heavy like I did, you will be super lower dominant.
                Monster cardio though.

                This shit. All these people in here expecting to get a buffed up body from rowing are moronic. Runners and swimmers who don't lift also look small. You don't row because it'll get you big, you row because it's a full body cardio that will keep your heart beating past 40 and help your gains, not give them to you, morons. Row for the fun and sport of it, not to be more autismo in your failing quest to be aesthetic.

                Yeah I don't know wtf I'm doing, I've only used it 6 times but I'm watching instructional videos in between. My last 5k I had a 2:03 avg, but I wanna get below 2 so people don't point and laugh.

                No one's pointing and laughing at you dude. You're fine, just a beginner. I've seen people fit as frick hop on a rower and proceed to do half an hour of what I can only describe as kipping on the machine, it's natural to not understand how to use your body when doing a new thing, even if you know your way around a gym. Just look up some form videos and record yourself so you can watch it over and make sure you're using your body to the best of it's ability and not working towards hurting yourself.

                What's up fellow rowing bros. I have hip problems so I started rowing for cardio and it feels fricking amazing. The gym I go to has the concept 2s and I really want to get one but I'm not trying to spend $900 on a rowing machine. Any recommendations for a less expensive rowing machine?

                Wait until a c2 goes on sale locally. Don't get anything but a c2. You will regret it if you get in to rowing and you realize that anything but a c2 is gyping you, and you will also regret it if you decide not to get in to rowing and sell the machine only to realize all rowers besides c2 lose resale value immediately.

                isn't rowing one of those upper class sports that you only get into if mommy and daddy pay for everything of you're one of the lucky plebs that ended up at a high ranking institution?

                I bought a c2 on a whim with my neet bucks a few years back and liked it so much I started following the races and training for a marathon within the year. Found some clubs in the area, went from there. You really don't need anything if you have a gym membership, most of them have concepts.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Which of the C2s should one get? There's a bunch of different models (D, E, maybe something else; P3, P4?)

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Model D and E are the same, just a higher seat on E. D is the typical choice and what I have. PM3 and PM5 differ in menu and bluetooth ability. I don't think there's anything wrong with having a PM3, but obviously the ability to connect your phone to the app and sync everything online through bluetooth instead of wire is nice. If you have the ability to get an older one for cheaper, that's probably your best bet since the monitors are available on concepts site and you can upgrade it by just buying a better one.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              yuck

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              [...]

              This shit. All these people in here expecting to get a buffed up body from rowing are moronic. Runners and swimmers who don't lift also look small. You don't row because it'll get you big, you row because it's a full body cardio that will keep your heart beating past 40 and help your gains, not give them to you, morons. Row for the fun and sport of it, not to be more autismo in your failing quest to be aesthetic.

              [...]

              No one's pointing and laughing at you dude. You're fine, just a beginner. I've seen people fit as frick hop on a rower and proceed to do half an hour of what I can only describe as kipping on the machine, it's natural to not understand how to use your body when doing a new thing, even if you know your way around a gym. Just look up some form videos and record yourself so you can watch it over and make sure you're using your body to the best of it's ability and not working towards hurting yourself.

              [...]

              Wait until a c2 goes on sale locally. Don't get anything but a c2. You will regret it if you get in to rowing and you realize that anything but a c2 is gyping you, and you will also regret it if you decide not to get in to rowing and sell the machine only to realize all rowers besides c2 lose resale value immediately.

              [...]

              I bought a c2 on a whim with my neet bucks a few years back and liked it so much I started following the races and training for a marathon within the year. Found some clubs in the area, went from there. You really don't need anything if you have a gym membership, most of them have concepts.

              Thanks bros, C2 it is. Like I said it's what they have at my gym so I'm already used to it. Saw one on homosexual book market for $650 but unfortunately I had to leave the area for a couple weeks for work (not helping my diet and exercise) so I couldn't jump on it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Well done anon. That’s very impressive.

      I think my best 2k time ever was around 6:30, and that was on the varsity crew team in college when I was training year round. (It was a club sport, we weren’t elite or anything). Hitting a 6:30 2k was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        6:30 is still impressive.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      god damn dude

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Must have been fricking dead in the last 500

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >no lower than a 34 stroke rate
      Holy frick that's impressive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Very nice, three guys in my team can do sub six but two of them are fat. If you aren't, that's even more impressive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Impressive, I’m 6:18 @84kg, looking to get close to 6 next year so I can have a stab at Henley diamonds and get on tv lol

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      How can a noob like me row 500 meters in under 1:45? Been training on the erg for a few weeks, been struggling. I'm 5' 9" and 235 pounds if that helps.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you mean one max 500m piece, or holding a 1:45 over a longer period of time?

        I’m pretty sure world record 500m times are held by powerlifters, cause it’s literally a bunch of deadlifts as fast and hard as possible for just over a minute.

        In general though, make sure you’re technique is right (legs-body-arms on the drive, arms-body-legs on the recovery) and then have the rate at like 25-30 and you’ll get there easy

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          One max 500m. The rower is one heck of a an ass kick for me ego considering how difficult it is to get good on.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Just learn from the best. https://youtu.be/nGbIuEdp-Q8
            But that's a pretty specific sprinting technique with a shortened leg stroke, if you're serious about rowing, don't start out with this or you'll pick up bad habits

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Thanks. I should add I'm specifically doing this for a physical fitness test that requires a single 500m sprint as one of the two events required to pass. I have to admit considering how much of a kickass workout it is I will incorporate it as a part of my permanent cardio workout, however the goal for now is to get my currently slimming fat ass to do 500m as quick as possible, right after a timed 1.5 mile run.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Your technique sucks, that's most of it
        This video is ok https://youtu.be/zQ82RYIFLN8

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Outrigging is quite fun

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's boring as shit. Not a fun sport.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Shit opinion.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >abs not used in swimming

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Bro most rowers are tall and skinny. Some get ripped but not most.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        anyone who thinks swimming doesn't work out your core has never done butterfly

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It’s clearly a moronic pic. Every stroke works your core. Swimming is literally one of the best sports for your core

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Rowing on an erg is boring. Rowing on a river is fun as frick

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        This is dumb as frick. Swimming you kick with your core, not with your legs.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Used to row back all through highschool.
    It got me in great shape but I hated every second of it.
    I hate the stupid fricking spandex outfits (I don't hate staring at the female rowing teams asses though) they make you sit in for hours that itch when they get sweat in them.
    I hated the 6am practices.
    I hate the fricking coxswain yelling at you while you're exhausted and if you act snappy with him at all because you're trying your best you get pulled aside by the coach to talk about how you need to give him more respect.
    I hated the hour drive to get to the clubhouse.
    I hated 50 minutes of straight rowing while everyone silently listens to their ipods.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Also used to row in highschool, and I loved it after the first season tbqh
      >didn't mind the spandex uniforms, the ones we had were comfy
      >practiced in the evenings, pulling into the dock as the sun was setting
      >had two main coxswains my varsity years and both were good, one being an absolute bro
      >always sat stroke so I got to talk to the cox directly
      >45min drive to boathouse but it was a scenic drive along the river we rowed on
      >practice was two 8s or four 4s, sometimes had the novice men's team join us
      >mfw rowing in the heavy weight 4 while doing indian rows and absolutely flying to the front of the pack
      The downside were the indoor practices. I fricking hate erg machines and the worst ones were when we did "dirty dozen" practices which were twelve 500m sprints with 2 minutes in between sprints.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think rowing with friends would be a lot of fun. How should I go about getting into it if I live in the Midwest and there are no rowing machines at the gym and I have no friends?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Google "rowing clubs in my state/city"

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    D1 rower in college, I hit a 6:12 2k on the ergs thanks to 10x week practices. Shittiest fricking sport ever, my god I hate rowing now. butthole coach made everyone row wrong enough to get back pain and it still hurts 7 years later.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >uh oh

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone else too poorgay to understand rowing?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >be rowing gay
    >hitting 2k PRs every week
    >get covid
    >just know my cardio and times are fricked
    IM ABOUT TO FRICKING END IT ALL FRICK THIS GAY ASS LIFE

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      do it homosexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I thought Covid was a scam and nothing to worry about!?

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's up fellow rowing bros. I have hip problems so I started rowing for cardio and it feels fricking amazing. The gym I go to has the concept 2s and I really want to get one but I'm not trying to spend $900 on a rowing machine. Any recommendations for a less expensive rowing machine?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I got a rower for 50 bucks 2nd hand online

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ok... that doesn't answer my question. What brand is it? Is it any good? Durable? Features?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      idk, you can sometimes pick them up from gyms or schools if they are upgrading, though they are normally not well maintained by Gyms

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I just started to hop on the erg rower at my gym on my off days for cardio. I was a runner in high school so I figured I'd approach it like a run and just go for 30 minutes. Now I have ridiculous painful pain in my lower hip and back and feel like I can't squat or DL safely.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is rowing the only time you're powering a vehicle with your arms?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you could also get that weird bicycle for cripples

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      its mostly the legs doing the hard work

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    one of my best 5k times was about 21:30 smth like that
    now, i've rowed in a club as a kid, i know my technique is solid and on top of that my ftp on a road bike is ~300w
    is it possible my split on the erg is shit because the gym doesn't bother to do any cleaning maintenance? for what it's worth, the drag factor on damper setting 10 is like barely 90

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Drag factor on a new model d is 130 at a setting of 5 for me, get better equipment

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw 5'2 turbomanlet coxswain

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've never met a male coxswain, only extroverted women

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Hey Stacey, don't know if I mentioned it, but I'm actually a pretty impressive athlete
    >Oh, uh, demonstrate? Uh, I mean, I can't really do it alone... I need my three friends to help... you know...
    >Otherwise yeah, anytime you want, I'll totally show you my sick cooperation and teamwork skills!
    >Yeah, we can go pretty fast. Oh, uh, sorry, I can't actually take you for a ride. Boat only seats four, you know how it is...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Loser

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Do you also bring your three homosexual buddies to whisper advice in your ear on dates?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          See

          Loser

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not a rower but am going to keep this image as inspiration for whenever I'm feeling lazy or demotivated.

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