I love your channel. Gave myself a Concept 2 for my 64th BD. I’ve wanted to row for 30 years. I’ve watched at least 5 of your videos and have confidence with what I’m doing on the machine. Great workout- No injury or burnout. Thanks Guys!

@MisterJeffy

11 ай бұрын

Congratulations! The coaching here is the real thing. You are not alone at the late start. I took up rowing at age 61.

Have been watching your videos as riding season is over where I'm at, I'm trying not to lose the fitness I've achieved, {304Lbs. to 215Lbs.) r/t eating whole foods and bicycle riding. I found rowing a great alternative for the winter. I subbed to your channel, love the content.

I naturally settle into near death gasping for life at medium intensity... #doughboylife

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

HA! That's another common style too

Thanks for your exercises!

Hey Shane , I am 52 , bad knees and have been looking for a holistic low impact workout and happen to stumble on to rowing. Have been looking at your videos. I find them awesome. I want to thank you for what you do and encourage you to keep the great work up. Thanks a bunch VN

Your breathing technique actually helped me meditate better! Thank you so much!

Good info here. I was always curious about proper breathing while rowing. I'll have to try this out. Thanks!

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

Give it a go and come back to let us know how it feels!

Your videos are amazing. I only just found your site today. I have been watching heaps of your training videos today to learn how to Row. You have motivated myself into buying a Concept 2 Rowing Machine now

Thxs a lot Shane, the breathing is the key to sports... In swimming a failend because exact this... I´m rowing with love and satisfaction, cause of i training the breathing.

Thank you for this!!!

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Super, will start trying this.. A video of you sitting on the machine and doing the breathing to illustrate would help even more. Thank you for good video! I'm seeing more and better videos! :D

I'm brand new to rowing (bought my machine 2 days ago) and, unfortunately, I don't understand. I've watched several of your other videos and they are so clear on what to do for a beginner. When is the inhale vs exhale supposed to happen. I'm really looking forward to learning the mechanics correctly to start and really appreciate your vids!

@kathya1956

7 ай бұрын

Always exhale on work done

I appreciate your dedication to new videos. It's been very useful information

I am adopting a similar breathing pattern to yours. Deep inhale at catch, exhale through drive, short inhale and the end of drive, short exhale through recovery. I am currently maintaining 20s/m, 2:18-2:20/500m for 30min. Usually end up 6400m to 6500m. My short term goal is to drop 1s/500 every a couple of days until I get 7000m in 30min with 20s/m, then train to finish 5000m in 20min. Medium term goal is to get 7500m in 30min with 20s/m. Haven't had a realistic long term goal yet. I tried long through recovery, and long exhale through drive, but after 25min, I feel I am not getting enough air. Also I cannot maitain that patter through the whole 25min.

Wow! Thanks so much for the tips. This really helped.

This is a general comment, and yes, this segment on breathing was most helpful. For the past 4 months, 2 days a week, I have attended class at the very excellent Roworx in Long Beach. Workouts are dynamic, but time for "teaching technique" as your videos do, is extremely limited. So, thank you very much for teaching me more about how to row! "there is no perfect" but we can strive. Here's my question, what is good? I mean, you are an incredible athlete, and our instructors are as well, age 24-39. However, at 68, and always an above average athlete, how do I know I am at the top say 10% of my age group for watts generated, and time for 250m sprint, or how many meters for 30 second sprint repeats with 30 seconds rest. If you can let us know how many watts you do, or how many meters you rowed per segment, that might help. However, can you please direct us to some way to handicap our performance? For example, at the end of class we do 2 250m sprints with 1 min rest. I can do 51 seconds each. When we do 30 second intervals, 30 second rest, I can row 125 meters on the first 7 and then 130 to 135 on the last 3. Is this good??? Excited for the next new episode, appreciate what you do for the "Dark Horse" community of rowers....

@exploarrowing

4 жыл бұрын

first, concept2 provide a ranking list on their webpage - you can filter there for age your age group. Second, if you really want to know it you need to take a standardized test in a lab - In the final report you'll find your score as % compared to the standard individual (compensated for age, sex, height, weight, aso).

Thankyou for this! Very usefull, it works!!!!! And very well explained!!!

hi, i first learned about breathing techniques from the art of living foundation and honestly it changed my life. just wondering if you've heard of them too? the last set of techniques you taught here are very similar :)

Any comments on inhalation respiratory muscle therapy? This is breathing through a device that constricts airflow to strengthen the muscles. I use "The Breather", and it helps my swimming breathing (less out-of-breath issues), but not sure if I've seen any benefit in my rowing.

Cool tips, really enjoy it

Well it must be just me, but somehow I’m left wanting to see you showing your breathing pattern while rowing at a slow pace. Long exhale on the drive, inhale, exhale, inhale all on the return? Doesn’t seem possible. Ok ok, I’ll go back and watch this again. This is huge by the way. I’ve long wondered wether my 2 breathes per stroke was correct AND correctly timed.

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

Your'e very right. I should have included that as well.

Hey guys, love the videos they’re super helpful. I’m with a rowing club now and we do two tests 1) 12 mins free rate and 2) 20:20, 20 mins of rowing with 20 strokes per minute. For the first test I need to get around 3400 metres in 12 mins and the second test an average split between 1:50 and 1:55. Any tips on these would be super helpful!!

Don't laugh at me, but I use a real metronome to keep my SPM.

@Sharon-pb7so

4 жыл бұрын

I think that's a great idea! I'm going to try that.

All very informative, but what you didn't tell me was how I coordinate my breathing with the rowing stroke. Do I breath in on the recovery or on the pull?

@Nycolekuiken

4 жыл бұрын

He did mention this

I need to get ready for 500 under 1.30 second for my physical test how should I do it and never done rowing thx Sean

I've always followed the bunch that says you should exhale all through the drive and inhale through the recovery until your lungs are more or less full at the catch, but have always suffered from reflux from my stomach (GERD I think is the medical term). This has got so bad that I nearly thought of quitting rowing altogether. Then, recently, I started to do the exact opposite (in during the drive and out during the recovery, getting almost empty at the catch). I don't know if this affects my performance but it seems to reduce a lot the reflux issue. Do you have any thoughts or experience on this problem?

As an asthmatic this is very hard for me. My breathing never feels right in the stroke

Great info. Fix the audio sync

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't realize there was an issue on audio with this one? Can you give the time mark where we had the problem?

A very V-sauce-esque intro

Belly/Gut breathing??? Great if it works for you. I want my chest expanding, not my gut. Like you said, there's many kinds of breathing. Perhaps this should be labeled a beginners guide to breathing.

I'm struggling with your instructions. Too much theory. Explain than demonstrate would be more useful.

Does Dark Horse Rowing do any on the water rowing?

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

As in, do I ever get on the water or do we as an organization run a boat club?

@joshthompson9341

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, do you row on the water or just do the ergo?

@DarkHorseRowing

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshthompson9341Thompson with a family I don't get on the water much now as it's a 30-minute commute each way to the boathouse so atm I'm primarily in the garage.

Thank you for this!!!!