Row

Since the rower is just a machine, there’s no technique to it, right?
Wrong. We’re going to spend the next 10 weeks working on rowing technique. That doesn’t mean we’ll do it everyday, but there will be rowing in at least one workout a week and we’ll try to use it as a warmup and talk about technique at least two times a week.
For today, we talked about the speed of the pull versus the speed of the return. As a general rule, you should pull the handle about twice as fast as you let it return. Why? Because then you can put more power into each stroke. If you don’t let the rower spin down, you can’t make it go faster.
Try it. I was shocked to see I was keeping a faster pace and getting a longer rest between pulls.