Just Dive In!

Do you wonder how to go about beginning with indoor rowing?  Its like your first experience swimming in the ocean -just dive in and start swimming and playing in the waves.

Of course, you want to be sure its a safe beach first, with no sharks, riptides or poisonous jellyfish waiting to ambush you. The locals can give you all that information.

With indoor rowing, the main thing is to look at the diagrams on the Concept 2 rower and imitate the posture and positioning for the 4 positions shown.  After that, limit your very first session to no more than 20 or 30 minutes at an effort level that seems effortless... and before you are finished with your first, effortless 20 or 30 minute session it will dawn on you that there are definite signs that you have been working.  Even though it doesn't feel like work at all, when you row at an "effortless" pace.

If you feel okay the next day, you did it correctly and you can be happy about that.  Very happy.

And if you really, really want more advice from me:  always wear a heartstrap and observe what your heart rate is doing.  To wear a heartstrap or not is like the difference between walking in the daytime compared to groping your way while walking on a totally dark night.

Just dive in!

Today's session was another 10K:

Today's 10K finish screen.

There was no warmdown, not so much as even one minute of warmdown at the end of today's session because my thoughts at that point were, "I didn't get "hot," so why bother warming down?"

Today's 10K report.