Concept2 Forum

Welcome to the campfire. You made a wise choice! The C2 will outcast you, your children and grandkids.

Have a lot of experience with shin splints, but from running, never rowing. I've heard that strengthening the anterior lower leg muscles via reverse calf raises helps in prevention.

Cramped at the catch? Experiment with foot stretcher height. Disconnected at the finish? Maybe too much backward lean. You should still be able to "weight" your feet to the stretchers. At 6'6", you don't have to force yourself to increase your stroke length. Drills? One legged rowing, pick drill, re...

Slow on the rower, even slower on the skier. Happy to still be able to do either. Wanna race? I'll break out my hour glass! Loser picks up the tab at In-N-Out.

In my younger years as a runner, I would occasionally resort to hill sprinting when I was suffering from shin splints. A great way to rest my shin injury while keeping some fitness. Unless your erging form is solid, I believe increasing DF would tend to increase the chances of back or shoulder injur...

Welcome to the forum. Briefly glanced at some of the replies from the regulars. Good comments & encouragement. Let me take a conservative approach. You asked, "Am I overdoing it?" If you asked, you probably are!! You're in your mid 40's, no longer a kid, without the almost super human recovery poten...

Sascha & Stu give good advice. Bottom line, you need to think of your erging days as active rest & not be trying to "push" yourself. We ergers, in general, are apt to be too aggressive. Heavy compound lifts are super stressful! Go easier on your rest days, and your condition will improve. Oh, and we...

The shoulders are the most complex joints in the body with a lot of inherent instability to facilitate a wide range of motion. The shoulder muscles are relatively weak compared to the back muscles & depend on their help to stabilize the joint. To facilitate recruitment of the lats, imagine trying to...

You're living in the wrong place! Move to one of the Rocky Mountain States. DF still too high? Try Cuzco!

Don't have slides, but I do erg on a dynamic. I'm not conscious of how I breathe, but I surmise I do it like Ombrax wrote, viz: exhale on the drive, inhale on recovery.

Great replies from all! I had back surgery for a ruptured disc, from a work related injury, age 33, many years before I started erging. As a result, I've been extremely careful on posture & activities to prevent reinjury. Let me add to the good advise already listed: sit firmly on your ass bones & N...

I sweat less when the fan is pointed at my back.

Sounds like you have a weak core. Keep working on keeping your back in a neutral position and your core should get stronger.

Post another video on your form so the forum stroke mavens can give you the benefit of their experience.

I have to agree with the others about diet. Rowing is great for fitness and mental health, but if you are looking to lose fat, your number priority to get right is what you put in your mouth. No amount of exercise is going to fix a faulty diet.

First of all, welcome to the campfire. I have a dynamic erg, though not a Concept2. I would urge you to try one before you buy. Intuitively, I think, you would subject your achilles to a lesser load than a static. First, on the drive, you have to move your bodyweight, say, 175 lbs, 18 times a minute...