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Thanks Alissa for your interest. Your response may have been obvious to you, but it wasn't to me. Change my style? Horrors. Yet I'll give it a shot.

Well, no responses yet. I suppose in a way that is a good thing, perhaps indicating diastasis is rare among rowers, but I certainly could use some advice. What are the risks if I continue to row? What exercises may contribute to healing? In a long and athletic life I've pushed through some severe pr...

Ladies and Gentlemen, First, I apologize for not explaining in detail what diastasis recti is (or are). If you want to know, a great deal of information, much more in volume and accuracy than I can provide, is available on Google, but what I need is advice from rowers who are already familiar with t...

Please excuse my typos. And, more important, no impoliteness was intended.

I've spent a good deal of time on the water and have been fortunate to have received useful, pertinent, kind and generous coaching. Yet I must cheer majikx's comment. Often, coaching advice, even that given by skilled oarsmen or by people who coach for a living, amounts to no more than an instance o...

I realize that there is no silver bullet, either mechanical or digital, but I shall buy the slides. (My double partner used to complain about the soft catch on the regular erg and I have been thinking about that.) And I'll look into the Rowpro program to see if it can be made to be compatible with m...

I've been reading this forum for a long time but have had little to add and a lot to learn. I need advice and encouragement. I'll be as brief as I can. I have been rowing, off and on, since the early 80's. I have erged irregularly for about the last seven years. The nearby rowing club is around 90 m...