Rowing Part 2 - Outdoor Rowing
By now, you’ve watched "The Boys in the Boat" movie and you’re ready to jump in a boat and win gold for USA, right? The reality is that rowing outdoors requires equipment (oars and a boat also called a shell), logistics (a calm body of water and cooperative weather) and lots of practice to learn the proper technique and balance. As opposed to rowing indoors on a machine, you cannot just watch some YouTube videos and be ready to row on the water!
Why bother with rowing on the water when you can get a perfectly good workout indoors? For starters, it is much more social than being alone on the Concept2 Erg. I’ve been with my rowing partner, Eric Atkins, for over 10 years, and there’s a bond that develops when you try to perfectly sync your movements with another person and work together to make a shell glide easily through water.
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