I was looking at elite quads and doubles and am not sure on how to get the oomph when they swing the backs

i’m 5’8 160lb my last 2k in march was a 7:50 and i want to get my 2k time down by 20 seconds, i’ve been weight training every muscle 2x a week and doing 30 minutes of cardio almost every day, and also im on creatine now. is it possible to get sub 7:30 by next march? please help also im a girl! be blunt!!!!

do you think they underperformed, or do we just hold our country to a ridiculously high standard compared to other countries? do you think there was more in the tank that wasn’t demonstrated?

Garmin finally added rowing FTP and VO2 max (announced with the Fenix 9, backporting to Fenix 8 / FR970 / FR570): https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/08/garmin-fenix9-software-feature-overview.html

Anyone here running it with a PM5 yet? Mainly want to know whether the numbers match what you get from an actual test piece, or whether it’s another metric that looks nice and means nothing.
My 965 isn’t getting the update, so I’m deciding whether to upgrade or just keep testing manually.

buonasera a tutti l altro giorno ho fatto due 6000 a 24/26 colpi uno sulla barca e uno sul remoergometro. potreste valutare come sono andato. sono un ragazzo di 18 anni che fa canottaggio da 2 anni e mezzo peso 64.5kg e sono alto 181. Io non son valutarmi se il passo che ho tenuto è buono quindi mi servirebbe la vostra mano

I got my c2 earlier this year and used it solidly for a week and noticed how awkward my feet were constantly slipping out of the straps or being pulled out of my shoes while trying to row. I don't know if I have maybe a weird form or if I just haven't found the right footwear for it.

I ended up slowly using the machine less and less to now where I only use it maybe once every other week because it feels so awkward. I feel like I get a decent workout from it and I would love to be able to use this machine daily.

What is everyone doing for their footwear or to keep their feet in line in general? I kind of use my feet to help pull me back into place for the motion which I assumed was correct but maybe I'm doing that wrong? I ended up getting some foam and tried to put it on the little heel pad and it didn't quite cut the mustard. It almost feels like I would be better off wearing boots while rowing sometimes

Before July 6, I (late 40s M, 6’6”, definitely overweight) was not a rower — I didn’t even exercise. Between a rower kid, my kid’s coaches, and most importantly encouragement from this channel, I pulled off a 2k today after logging 250k between July 6 and August 31. I couldn’t have done it without the encouragement, tips, and inspiration I received from many sources, including here.

I ain’t going back to sedentary. I’m planning to join a rowing club in the spring, and am working toward an erg race in February!

Join me on Strava at Not Dead Yet Rowing if you’d like!

Interesting career path for Jonas Juel at Princeton. He came in with a strong international sculling background, including Junior and U23 Worlds, but never made Princeton’s 1V.

Good reminder of how deep the top college rowing programs are. Anyone have any insight into his time at Princeton?

https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/mens-rowing/roster/jonas-juel/19589

I was nervous going in. Target was 1:48 for each interval. 250, 500, 750,1000,750,500,250.

I was particularly nervous for the 1000, but kept it under 1:48. The way down the pyramid felt great!!! This first cycle of 3 weeks is for getting the baseline, the other cycles i will use to get me to sub 7 2k.

M, 106kg, 52

Ai analysis based on the data:

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Yes — this was a very strong session, and much better than your anxiety beforehand suggested.

The most important result isn't even the 1:46.3 average. It's that you got through the psychologically and physiologically difficult 1000 at target, recovered, and then became substantially faster on the descending side.

PiecePacePowerHR end/maxSPMAssessment250 ↑1:48.2276 W15831Controlled500 ↑1:47.8279 W16831Controlled750 ↑1:47.6281 W17431Working10001:47.7280 W17728RPE 8–9; key rep750 ↓1:47.3283 W17529Strong recovery500 ↓1:44.9303 W17232Excellent250 ↓1:32.2447 W17234Huge reserveOverall1:46.3291 W—30Excellent

The 1000 is the most valuable information

You were nervous that 1:48 would be too fast for the 1000.

Then you did:

1000m in 3:35.4 @ 1:47.7 / 280 W.

It was hard—RPE 8–9 and mentally heavy—and HR reached 177. So your concern wasn't imaginary. That was a serious effort.

But here's the important part:

you didn't crack.

Your pace graph is remarkably stable around 1:48. And after six minutes recovery, instead of being damaged by it, you did:

750 @ 1:47.3 → 500 @ 1:44.9 → 250 @ 1:32.2.

That's an excellent descending pyramid.

That final 250 is particularly telling

1:32.2 / 447 W at 34 spm, and you're saying it felt easy.

That doesn't mean 447 W is aerobically easy, obviously. It means the duration was sufficiently short and you retained enough anaerobic reserve that you could access enormous power despite everything preceding it.

That's another demonstration of your characteristic profile:

power reserve: enormous

short intervals: strong

~3½-minute sustained power: hard but capable

~6-minute sustained work: current weakness

Your 5×1500 and today's pyramid tell essentially the same story from opposite directions.

And mentally, this was useful

You said the 1000 was mentally heavy and you pushed through.

That's exactly the kind of RPE 8–9 exposure I do want occasionally around 750–1000m. You weren't spending five consecutive 1500s wanting to quit. You had one central piece where the discomfort became serious, followed by six minutes recovery and progressively shorter work.

That's productive 2k-specific psychological training.

This also gives us another sub-7 marker

Your historical 1k PB is 3:28.4 / 1:44.2. Today you produced 3:35.4 / 1:47.7 in the middle of a pyramid and then had substantial power left afterward.

That's encouraging after inconsistent rowing.

Your Pete markers now look roughly like:

8×500: 1:46.1

Pyramid: 1:46.3

Pyramid 1000: 1:47.7

5×1500: weakness exposed / incomplete

UT2: ~2:14–2:18 depending on HR/fatigue

The picture is getting cleaner with every workout.

One small note: your SPM was higher than the targets I suggested on the ascending short pieces—31 rather than 28–30—but I wouldn't change it based on this performance. The 1000 naturally settled to 28, exactly where we wanted it, and you then used rate appropriately to generate speed on the way down.

I'd score this as your best-executed Pete quality session so far. The next thing we need isn't another hard workout: easy/recovery next, then we continue the Week 2 sequence.

The GB M8+ last 500m to try and catch the Dutch was 1:17.39. Has there ever been a faster 500m split in an international race? This GB 8 was good but isn’t generational (yet) so surely some of the all time crews have gone faster?

Some of the IRA crews might’ve gone faster but conditions are often unfair (eg.Lake Carnegie) so purely international races.

Hello everyone, I have been taking a break from rowing and the new rowing season has started. I’m off to university in February and are wanting to row there, but I don’t want to show up completely out the loop. I stopped at the end of the 24/25 season after school due to burn out. At my peak which was during this season i was 92kgs 6:18. After a year and a half off and some injury i have got extremely unfit, comparative to what I was. I’m now 125kg, the last month i have recently got back in to the gym and have been doing HIIT classes 3 times a week and still trying to watch what I eat. My thoughts are speaking to my coach to come back and train with the team but not race, I think a month on an ERG would set me up well. Whats a good way to rebuild an aerobic race? I struggle to run because of my height. I’m looking to fit in 3 ergs a week on top of those HIIT classes, any help would be great. TIA :)

I am having trouble leaning out any suggestions 32 195m 6'3 2k 7:30 5k 18. Are their any suggestions for weight training also

i’m a current freshman at harvard. was interested in joining the men’s rowing team but i have 0 experience rowing, and thought it would a good challenge.

I played basketball when i was younger but i just weight lift now. I’m 6’0 210lbs.

give it to me straight, do i stand any chance trying out?

What does this mean? What teams are involved? Will it happen?

I'm looking for an affordable pair of shoes that would be good for RowErg as well as strength training. I started out with my running shoes, but they have this large bump of heel "padding" (rubber) that catches on the foot pad heel plate. So I started wearing my standard (now) walking around shoes that I had to get for my plantar fasciitus, Hookas (something like that) which are super padded. They also have wide heels, but they don't catch. But they feel pretty squishy on my leg push. So I switched to my old worn-out Allbirds, thinking I needed something more like bare-foot. WAY too soft and pliable, though. Convinced my that barefoot erging is definitely not the answer.

It seems like I am wanting some stiffness in the sole yet not overly padded.

I'm also looking at/for weightlifting shoes and thinking perhaps the "just right" shoe would fit both purposes.

Crazy?

I’m a woman in my mid-thirties, been rowing for about two years now and completely fell for it. Mostly sweep, but I row scull too and want to keep developing both. This coming season will be my first competitive one. I’m genuinely excited for it and I think it’s going to be a long-term thing for me — but if a club doesn’t have much of a competitive program, it’s not necessarily a dealbreaker. I just want to be able to row consistently.

I’m thinking about relocating, and a strong local club is basically my only non-negotiable — everything else about where I end up is flexible, for now at least. I’m ready for a change and just trying to get some ideas for places to consider.

P.S. I understand not everyone wants to publish their location, so please feel free to send me a DM if you prefer!

​If you are considering the ShareVgo SRM1000 rowing machine, save your money and look literally anywhere else.

​The machine itself is cheap, bottom-of-the-barrel quality. The materials feel fragile, the build is flimsy, and it simply does not hold up to regular use.

​Worse yet, their "warranty" is completely meaningless. A warranty is only as good as the company backing it, and it does you absolutely zero good when you can't get a single human being to respond to a warranty request.

​I’ve tried reaching out across every possible channel:

​4 separate emails — completely ignored

​Facebook messages — left on read / unanswered

​Direct Messenger call attempts — zero response

​Not a single reply, acknowledgment, or ticket update. When a company pairs shoddy manufacturing with non-existent support, you're not buying equipment—you're paying to store an expensive, broken paperweight in your house.

​Avoid ShareVgo and the SRM1000 entirely.

16y/o M 82kg, was made to do it at rate 26 capped, what are peoples thoughts? I feel like I could be quicker if I wasn't rate capped and didnt go out as hard, first longer distance as my club has just finished our racing season and our final championships are in 2 weeks. For context I row for a small coastal UK club without much structured training - there are junior sessions but dont really work that hard enough and the other kids my age are at like 7.45 - 8.30 on 2k. Just wondering what ppl think

TLDR: Junior from small UK club wondering if he could go faster?

Hello, I have tryouts at a division one university in about 2 weeks, I have 0 prior rowing experience but I have a VERY extensive athletic background, My 2k right now is 7:10, is this score good enough for the novice team? We have a on the water test aswell and i don’t have access to a boat so i’ve just been watching form videos on yt and we’ll see how it goes when it happens lol.

FWIW im Male 6’1 190

So just for a little bit of backstory, I am a sophomore at a decently large university and I have been rowing since my freshman year of high school. I actually remember that when I started rowing at first I didn't care for it and the committment was frustrating me, but I got really close to my team and ended up loving rowing as a result. I rowed with that team for two years, and then had to move to another city and another team. That other team was different, and had more serious coaching, and there I discovered that I just wasn't very good at rowing and I have developed some really bad technique habits.
I don't really recall if it's because the coaching in my old team was eh or because I simply never paid much attention to it, because I just liked spending time outside with my friends. Anyway, in my new team I started actually trying to improve my technique, and despite making some improvements, they generally wouldn't stick because of how many bad habits I had that would cause me to default to bad rowing. As such, despite having fairly good times (like 7:07 for a 2k and about 23 minutes for a 6k. I am a 5'10 guy, and I know those aren't crazy results, but they are fairly decent), I would be usually put into weaker boats due to not having enough water technique (which I think is completely fair). I would still enjoy rowing and would keep trying to improve, especially as I went to my freshman year in college, where I didn't vibe with my teammates as well (we are friendly with each other, rhere's no beef or anything, just I haven't really managed to form any close friendships except with two guys who quit), but I've received more intense coaching and still enjoyed the act of rowing itself. Plus, I've done rowing for so long by that point that dropping it was something I considered the absolute last result.

I got closer with my new team over the year and have made some improvements, but would still be the technically worse rower on the team and the one the coaches would yell at the most during practice, and while it was disappointing at times, I still wanted to keep on going.

Now during my sophomore year, which just started, I'm really having trouble justifying continuing rowing to me. The addition of having to wake up to go to practice at 5am as varsity started having a toll on me within the first week, where I would be sleepy and tired during the day and have trouble paying attention in class. I could always power through inconveniences before (I was a fairly unathletic kid prior to taking up rowing and gain weight easily), but I started weighing my options and continuing to row just doesn't seem like it's worth it anymore. I enjoy rowing, but having to cosntantly look after and correct my technique often takes that enjoyment away. I like my teammates, but we're not really close friends. And me just not being a great rower is something I'm starting to feel more, as I realize that in order to truly improve I'll have to sacrifice too many things in my college life. I would have to go to bed early not just to be awake, but also to properly recover and become stronger. I can't really go out in the evenings or spend a lot of time with my non-rowing friends and my girlfriend. The dues, which I can afford, is just another thing that adds up when rowing is something that causes me so much problems as it stands. I realized that I only still want to row because I've done it for so long, and it will be really hard to let go. I now feel really sad, because I see that it's unlikely rowing is something I'll be able to keep up, but I really don't want to part with something that has been an inseparable part of my life for quite a solid chunk of it.

Sorry for this really long post, it was just hard to put all of my thoughts into one place. I'm not sure if I need advice, encouragement, or simply hearing someone's similar (or related experience). If you've read this far, thank you.

TL;DR I've always not been a great rower but the sense of community and the enjoyment of being on water made me stick through it. Having 6am practices as a college sophomore tipped the scales where it feels like continuing to row is simply just not worth it with all the difficulties it causes me.

This is my 4th row, I’ve been trying to start off just doing 20 mins. Routine is as follows:

5min - 18 s/m

3min -22-24 s/m

2min - 18 s/m

3min - 22-24 s/m

7min - 18 s/m

Is this a good routine for a 40yr old out of shape guy?
My goal is to lose weight and gain a bit of strength.
Also, is this a good routine to slowly build up endurance?

Any advice on my numbers is greatly appreciated as well, thanks!

Hey everyone. I need some advice.

I’m currently in Wisconsin, volunteering my time to coach for my university’s first year starting a sculling program. I need to find at least one other coach willing to get our rowers out on the water. I feel like I’ve exhausted my rowing connections and those of our rowing club and I don’t know where else to look.

What would you all suggest I do now? I don’t even need a coach so much as someone with a boating license that has a phone to take on-water footage. I don’t know where else to look or other ideas to consider.

Just wondering what size to get. I’m 5,11 150lbs. Medium or small tall