Rowing by feel today — literally. I started the session with my monitor still set to calories, and rather than stop and fix it, I just kept going. So this one is a fully improvised 25 minutes of low-intensity rowing with no real idea of my pace.
But rowing by feel is actually a useful thing to do. When you've spent enough time on the machine, you develop a sense of what low intensity feels like — the stroke rate, the effort, the rhythm — without needing a number to confirm it. I talk about why that matters, and what it has to do with a conversation I had with my daughter Jaime about swimming stroke counts.
From there I get into technique consistency — the idea that getting into the catch in the same position each time, with the same sequence through the drive, is where real improvement lives. I watched someone rowing this morning who was doing all the right things in completely the wrong order, and it's a reminder of how much the sequence matters.
And then — I won't pretend otherwise — things take a bit of a turn. I go off on a tangent about religion and money, what I'd remove from the planet, and why I'd rather be making rowing videos full time. It's a Thursday. My energy tank was depleted. I acknowledged this on camera. You've been warned.
The first half is solid coaching chat. The second half is peak playlist content.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro & EXR Dockside Drift course
1:41 The monitor is set to calories — we're winging it
4:38 Jamie's swimming lesson and stroke rate
8:00 Why you train at different stroke rates
10:24 Technique consistency and getting the sequence right
28:42 Cool down, stretching, and the big tangent
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