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How to Row Faster: Steal this distress tolerance strategy
Want to Learn How to Row Faster? Embrace Discomfort. Here’s how. I asked a coaching client recently about her rowing goals. She sighed and said, “I’m not happy with my splits. They’re too slow. How can I row faster?” Great question! A few things will help you get faster on the…
Read MoreShoes for Rowing: Find Your Perfect Fit
Step Up Your Indoor Rowing Game With the Right Shoes For Rowing Have you ever wondered how much difference a pair of shoes can make in your indoor rowing workout? Well, you might be surprised! If you’ve ever found yourself powering through a rowing workout, only to be distracted by discomfort in…
Read MoreUCanRow2 on Demand is Here!
On demand fitness with UCanRow2 on Demand is here!! MEMBER LOGIN SIGN UP Row along with UCanRow2 master and certified instructors on YOUR schedule and never row alone! Question for you: 🧞♂️ Do you wish you could get more of our UCanRow2 workouts in a follow-along…
Read MoreOver 50 Fitness: The Best Fitness Routine for Active Aging
Learn the best exercises for total-body fitness when you’re over 50. We’ll show you how to easily build strength, flexibility, and endurance for active aging.
Read MoreHIIT Rowing Workouts to Build Your Best Body
Build your fitness and slow aging with high-intensity interval training and HIIT rowing workouts! Rowing workouts are a great way to target your entire body in one workout, safely and effectively. High-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts take that to the next level by helping you burn maximum calories and build strength in just…
Read MoreBeginner Rowing Machine Tips and Workouts
Rowing Machine Hints for Beginners – With A Beginner Workout! Updated May 7, 2023 If you’re new to the rowing machine, it can be intimidating to know where to start. But with the right technique and beginner workouts, you can quickly get the hang of this effective full-body workout. In this post, we’ll cover…
Read MoreTips for Rowing: The Rowing Sprint Start
How to Row Faster: Using the Rowing Sprint Start The rowing sprint start is a super effective tool, not just for when you’re actually RACING on the rowing machine, but any time you want to get your machine going a little faster. And it’s a tool that anyone who wants to know how to row…
Read MoreRowing for Weight Loss
What’s your biggest goal related to rowing? If you’re like most people, you’d love to use the machine to drop some weight. “Rowing for weight loss” and similar terms are perennial favorite Google searches. New year, new month or just new week, it’s the number one goal that people have when it comes to rowing and their health. And with good reason! The rowing machine is a GREAT tool for weight loss, one of the best around. But you need to know how to do it correctly to get great results that also last.
Read MoreBodyshop Workout 4-4-2015
Another good one for racking up the meters…
Row, SkiErg or mix:
3000 meters
30 mountain climbers (L/R = 2)
10 sit-ups
2000 meters
Read MoreTry A Home Rowing Machine Workout That Works
You can’t make it to the gym every day, and let’s face it, some days you don’t even want to. It’s snowing, raining, butt cold, broiling hot, or you’ve got a sick kid or you simply don’t feel like it. We get it, we’ve been there. Much as we love them, you certainly don’t need a formal rowing program at a gym (hopefully taught by a certified instructor) to get a great workout. Try these home-based options.
Read MoreRowing Through the World Cup: The Soccer Fan’s Workout
The World Cup is here! So many hours of game time, SO many hours waiting for something to happen. Why not set up your rowing machine in front of the TV so you can cheer your team on while still getting in a great workout?
Sure, you could row steady-state through the whole thing, but a typical game runs around 100 minutes with stoppage time, and no commercials to break it up! Give the game a little variety by following these rules for the UCanRow2 Soccer Fan’s Workout:
Read MoreSpecial Olympics AND Rowing? Count Me In!
UCanRow2 and Concept2 are headed to the Special Olympics 2014 USA Games! It’s the first time ever for these national games, and we need your help. If you’re in the Princeton, NJ area, or could be on Thursday, June 19, we’d love to have you join us for a day you won’t soon forget. Promise!…
Read MoreMother’s Day Workout to Celebrate Mom
What does mom want on Mother’s Day? Marketers would have you think it’s flowers, candy, jewelry, breakfast in bed (ok we agree on that one). But our favorite way to celebrate mom is with an awesome rowing workout. Choose one of the workouts below, and do them with her! Read more…
Read MoreRow Like an Olympian: Favorite Rowing Workouts From a London Medalist
Indoor rowing is hotter than ever! Awesome, but where do you begin if you’re just getting started with the sport? And what about if you’re ready to ramp it up? We asked Natalie Dell O’Brien for her thoughts. She ought to know, she was in the first boat ever to medal for the US in the women’s quad sculls event, at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Check out her story, and some suggested rowing workouts.
Read MoreRowing Recovery Workout – Burn Fat, Get Back on Track
We all have times during the year where we can stray from an otherwise stellar fitness program. Vacation, the Holidays, a busy time at work, summer at home with the kids, can all move fitness to the back burner temporarily. Hey, it happens to the best of us! Just get back on the rowing machine as soon as you can and you’ll be back up to speed in no time. Read on for a couple of rowing recovery workouts that will help you get there. Read more…
Read MoreWhat a drag! Comparing drag factor on the rower and SkiErg
Have you ever referred to the drag factor on your Concept2 indoor rower or SkiErg? It’s the number that tell you how much resistance is on the flywheel and gives you an indication of how hard you have to pull (or push-pull in the case of the rowing machine). Traveling ergers and competitive indoor rowing…
Read More3, 2, 1, GO ROW! Rowing at the Special Olympics
And they’re off! For the 7th straight year we are rowing with the athletes of the Special Olympics Michigan Summer Games. We work a lot of different trainings and events through the year, but this one, and its winter counterpart, are among those we look forward to the most. As it is for most people,…
Read More14 Ways to Get More Out of Twitter
Are you on Twitter yet? If you’re promoting yourself or your business it should be one of your first or second social media stops after Facebook (the one must-have outpost in social media). Twitter offers a couple of great advantages over some of the other social media spaces, principal among them: 1. Forced Brevity –…
Read MorePhoto of the Day: Spring rowing training in the UP
Finish, please!
Today’s post comes courtesy of Certified Rowing Instructor Leeny Hoffman. For more technique tips be sure to follow the UCanRow2 video channel and our Trainer Tips page. I was checking out different Crossfit blogs the other day and came across this picture of a rower (not from our gym) getting after it. I have…
Read MoreChain Drive the UCanRow2 Newsletter is Here!
Can’t get enough UCanRow2? Never fear, Chain Drive, the UCanRow2 newsletter is here! All things indoor rowing, delivered right to your email inbox. Workouts, playlists, technique tips, upcoming trainings, marketing advice, basically the best of the best of what we can find to help you get the most out of your erg or ergs,…
Read MoreRow with an Olympian! Indoor Rowing Basic Course Comes to Seattle
Have you ever wanted to learn to teach indoor rowing – or just perfect your own technique – from an Olympian? Here’s your chance: Heather Alschuler, a former Canadian Olympian, national teamer and now accomplished indoor rowing evangelist in Seattle, is bringing her talents to UCanRow2’s Indoor Rowing Basic Course. Heather will be leading the…
Read MoreBiggest Loser Rowing Offer: Home Users, Buy an Erg, Get Trained Free
After a long hiatus the Concept2 rower is back on The Biggest Loser for the current U.S. season. And this season you’ll be seeing the SkiErg as well. Great news! For the most part… If you saw the first episode you saw some rowing (not on Concept 2 machines), but unfortunately virtually none of it with…
Read MoreFitness Marketing: Flickr’s Revamped iPhone App: New Home for Your Best Erging Pics?
The New York Times says the new version of Flickr’s iPhone photo app may well be a force to be reckoned with, and stiff competition for Instagram. Flickr has long been THE place to post photos for Web optimization, but in recent months has lost some ground to hipsterish (for now) Instagram. Where the Times says Flickr…
Read MoreRowing Machine Maintenance Tip: Tighten the Screws
The Concept2 rowing machine is one of the most durable and some of the best exercise equipment there is. With just a little bit of regular maintenance your machine should last a lifetime. That said, that regular Concept 2 rower maintenance is critical, both for optimal performance and for safety. One of the most important…
Read MoreCandlelit Rowing, Hurricane Sandy Style
Guest post by Shoshana Pritzker, RD, CDN of ShoDelicious, Superstorm Sandy survivor and a new Concept2 indoor rower You know what really stinks about storms like Superstorm/Hurricane Sandy? Being stuck in your house without power, light, or cable entertainment. Back in my Florida days we’d have hurricane parties to pass the time. Friends would bring…
Read MoreMyFitnessPal Calorie/Exercise Tracker Gets a Huge Upgrade
The MyFitnessPal app for tracking calories and exercise, already our favorite, has just gotten even better. MyFitnessPal wrote on their blog today that the tracker, which with 30 million registered users and 2 million food listings is one of the most popular and complete diet trackers there is, will now synch with some of the…
Read MoreTRAINER TIP: Close Your Eyes for the Cooldown
Here’s a tip to help your rowing students get better flow in their rowing stroke: The cooldown of a workout is a great time to focus in on the zen of rowing. Use that time to close your eyes and feel the motion. Remind your students to FEEL the connection of the stroke, from the…
Read MoreSweat This (Rowing), Not That (Other Cardio Stuff)
Great to see Men’s Health magazine and the terrific Eat This, Not That series recognizing the calorie torching benefits of rowing in a Sweat This, Not That post. “Rowing burns the most calories and works the most muscles, including muscles in your back, and also improves posture,” the magazine notes, and it even references a Brazilian…
Read MoreGenerating Power on the Rowing Machine
How’s your rowing workout been lately? Would you like to get more of the benefits of rowing machine workouts?
The difference between a good workout and a great one is in how you apply power on every stroke. That’s true whether your goals are getting a PR on your next 2K, losing 20 lbs or simply making the most of the time you have on the machine.
In this video, UCanRow2’s Terry Smythe shows you how to use your performance monitor to gauge your power output and a drill that will help you get faster and stronger on the machine.
Read MoreIndoor Rowing in the News: Rowing a Low-Impact Workout with High Results
We travel all over the United States doing indoor rowing training and generally turning people on to the sport. One of the coolest places we’ve ever been is Fitness Pointe in Munster, IN, where we had the good fortune to visit the day that member Judy Abbott hit 2 million meters rowed during last year’s…
Read More10 Fitness Apps to Rev Up Your Workout and Boost Performance
If it’s true that rowing is the ultimate cross-training sport (and of course we heartily agree with that idea), then there must be other fitness activities that are worth doing, or that are great cross training for rowing – like cycling. And anything worth doing is worth tracking, especially if you’re looking to improve your…
Read MoreIntroducing Personalized Indoor Rowing Technique Reviews
Do you have a Concept2 indoor rower at home, or use one at your gym? Are you a competitive indoor rower who’s interested in improving your indoor rowing technique and your performance on the machine? Maybe you’ve been rowing for a while and would like to brush up on your rowing technique or get new rowing workout ideas.
A new offering from UCanRow2 may be just the ticket: Personalized rowing technique reviews
Read MoreThe Ultimate Erging Playlist
Music for rowing classes or a great rowing playlist is always a big topic of discussion around the UCanRow2 office and Concept2 instructor trainings. We usually tell people to aim for workout music with little to no lyrics and relatively slow beats per minute, usually in the 120 bpm range or slower. Indoor cycling music…
Read MoreBob Harper’s Six Weight Loss Rules
Say what you will about The Biggest Loser (and we’ve definitely got our opinions about the show and the extreme levels of exercise it prescribes, along with the quality of the rowing training), trainer Bob Harper has had great success helping people on and off the show lose weight over the years. He’s out today with…
Read MoreInfographic: Down and Dirty Guide to Social Media
Admit it. You could be spending more time promoting yourself and your business with social media. We all could. But there’s a lot of water there to be rowed with only so many hours in the day. As we often tell people in our Programming Intensive course, some involvement in social media — well executed…
Read MoreYour Blueprint for Fitness Social Media Success … and Sanity
We hear comments like this in our trainings all the time (or see it in the eyes of those who don’t dare say it out loud): “You want me to work really hard at being a good rower myself, a good rowing instructor / personal trainer / CrossFit coach / pied piper/Energizer bunny for rowing…
Read MoreFlywheel Frenzy! Indoor Rowing Training for Home Users and More
If you’re a home or gym user of the Concept2 rowing machine, we’ve got something new coming just for you: A half-day training that will get you tuned up and ready for new (or renewed) action on the world’s #1 indoor rower! The workshop is part of our Flywheel Frenzy event at Owens Community College in Toledo, OH on…
Read MoreBiggest Loser Rowing: Get Certified and Be the Biggest Winner
It was a big night of rowing last night on The Biggest Loser. It’s about time! First the contestants had to row a 10k piece for their challenge, then the last chance workouts included a number of meters, too, most courtesy of recent CrossFit convert and Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper. This kind of exposure…
Read MoreFitness Marketer’s Rant: No More Naked Videos!
Naked videos? What? Are we talking about cyber indecency here? No, but this is almost as big a crime in online and social media marketing: Posting video without any accompanying text that neither search engines nor us mere mortals can see and use to decide if your video is what we’re looking for and…
Read MoreIs Using Calories to Track Your Workout a Good Bet?
We often hear people say they go into the gym with a goal of burning X calories on the cardio equipment, be it on the treadmill, rowing machine, elliptical or in a CrossFit WOD. And we often tell them, that’s great, as long as you’re a 5’10”, 150-lb. man. If not, you’re probably getting…
Read MoreShape Magazine Joins the Indoor Rowing Revolution
We love, love, LOVE that Shape Magazine is so taken with the rowing machine (and a Concept2, even better!). Their latest tweet on the subject: “OBSESSED with the rowing machine! Works your whole body & cardio? Why weren’t we doing this sooner?” Better late than never we say, and glad to have you!! Shape included…
Read MoreRocking the Row: Music for Indoor Rowing Workouts
Great article from the American Council on Exercise about how to pick music for your fitness class. Good timing, too, since Shape magazine included a rowing playlist in their January 2012 issue. ACE says there are four factors you should consider in putting together the playlist for your class, and they are all important when…
Read MoreConcept2 Indoor Rowing Foundations Coming to Florida — and more — in 2012
After getting more requests than we can even keep track of, we’re starting 2012 off right, bringing indoor rowing instructor certification back to the Sunshine State! Our host will be Rowland Rowing Studio in Juno Beach (Palm Beach County). The master instructor for the full-day training on Feb. 25 will be UCanRow2’s Terry Smythe, a former…
Read MoreOlympic Medalist Sheila Taormina to Offer Clinic for Swimmers, Triathletes
Houghton, MI (Feb. 16, 2011) – Olympic gold medalist Sheila Taormina, the only woman ever to have competed in four consecutive Summer Games in three different sports (swimming, triathlon and pentathlon), is bringing her unique experience and coaching to students, swimmers and triathletes in Houghton in April. Taormina, who won gold in swimming at the…
Read MoreWow, you look amazing! How did you do it?
Wow you look amazing! How did you do it? My journey to 2 million meters By Sarah Fuhrmann On October 28, 2010, I watched the monitor on my Concept2 indoor rowing machine as it ticked just past 10,000 meters. Surrounded by the women who have been my constant cheerleaders and companions throughout this journey I celebrated…
Read MoreDifferent Strokes for Different Folks: Indoor Rowing at Sweat for a Vet
(Terry Smythe‘s impressions of her participation on behalf of Concept2 at the first annual Sweat for a Vet event) On November 13th, hundreds of people in fitness centers around the world came together to Sweat for a Vet to celebrate Veteran’s Day and one of the greatest lessons we have to learn from them, their…
Read MoreIndoor Rowers Ready to Sweat for a Vet
The flywheels will be spinning nonstop this Saturday, November 13, when a group of adaptive rowers take to the Concept2 rowing machines at Sweat for a Vet, a three-hour indoor cycling, Kranking and rowing event to raise funds to buy fitness equipment for disabled veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical…
Read MoreIndoor Rowing Hits Miami
Rowing machines and rowing shells converged this past weekend when UCanRow2 led the first indoor rowing instructor certification at Miami Beach Rowing Club. Participants representing crews from the University of Miami and Barry University, joined with home users and an aspiring elite competitive rower for a day with UCanRow2’s Terry Smythe learning the ins and…
Read MoreWhen the Weather Fails You: Using the Rowing Machine to Train for On-Water Racing
Updated June 12, 2018 Summers in Michigan’s scenic Upper Peninsula are nothing if not variable. So when UCanRow2’s Terry Smythe was training to race at the 2010 FISA World Masters Rowing competition she knew she’d need a backup training plan for inclement days. As it turned out there were many days that forced…
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