IS ROWING HARD?

I have been getting a lot of questions asking whether rowing is a difficult sport as many people have seen training here or on this channel or elsewhere where people are really putting themselves in the pain cave!

Let me know in the comments what you think?

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[mafcork]

Without a doubt yes it is, however super rewarding, and made friends for life through it and had some of the best times ever in the 12 years I rowed.

[footieballer]

Yes. 🙂
New rowers are surprised to find how technically demanding the simple act of rowing is. Keeping technique while trying to maximize power output over the race course is really challenging. A different mixture of physical fitness, technique and timing. Easy, right?

[Adamskii]

Yes! It is. But also very free and calming

[wenisinvietnam]

Both in terms of efficiency and effort, it's only as hard as you make it.

[SuperCbode]

If you row competitive and you want to win, rowing is very hard. And it doesn't matter in which age class or on what level you do it, because you will allways go "flat out" for yourself individualy for your given distance. We doesn't do it because it's easy, we do it because it's hard!

[desdalloway]

FAIRPLAY TO U I WISH U ALL THE BEST IN YOUR SPORTING CAREER

[desdalloway]

ONE THING I HATED WHEN I WAS ROWING WAS THE ERGO THOSE 2000K TRAINING SESSIONS A WORLD OF PAIN AND MIND NUMBING ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM

[michaelsoland]

My XC coach tricked me into rowing my freshmen year, most painful decision I’ve ever made but damn I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t the most amount of fun I’ve ever had

[colebarclay]

In your opinion, what is the hardest erg test?

[kenlaw]

How much easier is it rowing a carbon fibre hull with assymetric blades than our old clinker hulls with symmetric blades we used 50 yrs back?

[TheVickersDoorter]

I can confirm that at the tender age of 58 & 1/2, rowing is still hard. The pay-off though is that I remain in rude health.

[asapicton]

Hardest sport I’ve done for sure. It’s worse than runnings races, I’ve done 3k running races and rowing races are just much more mentally and physically painful. You can’t really zone out when you row, at least I can’t. This is especially true for 2k erg tests, which is for sure the worst pain I’ve ever felt. Nothing else has ever made me not be able to physically get off the ground!

[frankastier]

More topics in the same vein: is rowing dangerous? Is rowing an expensive sport?

[desdalloway]

THE BOSTON MARATHON CAN BE HARD IN A SINGLE

[nicklasdackheden]

I'm one of those fairly new to rowing and i always tend to tear my hands up when pushing a lot with my legs. what can one do to prevent that yet maintaining the power in the legs?

[geoffreyzxart]

What is the ball park of watts that one needs to attain in order to get into university crew

[tomclaxton]

Absolutely it's hard. But what sport isn't? if you want to better yourself in any sport you push yourself to the limit (and through the damn pain cave!)


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