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I like this machine, it's less busy at my gym and no one bothering me

I watched this video and thought it was a little stupid at first, to be honest. As a long time bodybuilder its hardwired in me to exhale on the concentic and inhale on the eccentric. The extra breath in the middle felt very awkward when i tried to apply it in my rowing. I forgot about this video and continued with my way of breathing.

As times gone on ive found ive started naturally doing this extra breath more and more, especially on my 500m sprint intervals...it helps tremendously to feed my body the oxygen to keep the pace up. I was mindful of my breathing today after re watching this video and manged my first ever 1min 32sec 500m...which i was actually rather pleased with after 5 or 6 weeks of taking my rowing seriously.

Rowing is a full body exercise so makes sense to have as much oxygen as possible. Thanks man.

Thanks for this post! I sat down to do a 10K this afternoon and used this pattern for breathing... I took my time from 43:32 to 42:42 and did it with a lower heart rate (down from 148 to 144 bpm) and average power increase from 157W to 169W!!! Not bad for just starting at the end of December and 50 years old!  I’m so stoked! Thanks!

I found I naturally fell into this breathing pattern, so its nice to have my intuition reinforced.

This just changed everything for me! I’ve had my C2 for about 6 weeks and working hard towards getting un-fat and back in the game. Hardest part has been breathing. How do I take a big breath at the catch with my belly in the way. Dude this worked so well! No panic, no gasping! Calm and centered with all the gas in the world through my 5k today. Best rowing workout I’ve had yet thanks to you!!!

Omg, so I have been breathing the 2 breaths per stroke for forever and I have been trying and trying to bring it down to 1 breath instead for a long time. I start rowing do the single breath but switch over to two breaths as soon as it gets difficult. Imagine my surprise finding out I was doing it right all along naturally.

Since I have cycled for so many years, I have a natural tendency to breathe in fitness activities, however learning anything new is worth learning everything about the performance correctly.

I struggled to get my cal/hr above 750 until I saw this video. I tried the technique for the first time this week and I saw my cal/hr go beyond 1000, it gives me so much more energy. Thanks so much for the tips!

Appreciate all the tips you provide!

Personally and for others where i’m from it is very usual to breathe like Hendrik if you are rowing high intensity with lack of breath. But usually at warm up or where i have the possabilty i breathe in by the start and out at the finish. In this case there is no right or wrong it’s just how your lung compacity is and you should only do what’s best for you as long as you have a rythym. when it comes to 2k for most rowers it would be to on a to high intensity at the end at least to only breathe out once per stroke. Im not saying im right and every one else is wrong but this is my perspective and experience as a rower

With his double exhale when does he inhale 😮

Been doing the two breaths per stroke for years. Works well for me. Closing in on 20,000 km

I’m a newbie to the Rowing .

awesome tip! during those moments of max intensity effort the breathing can become a real source of stress and conflict with each stroke. that is what made me come searching for information about breathing technique. As you suggested, i slowed down my strokes-per-minute to practice the technique using 2 breaths-per-stroke until it felt natural (which happened very quickly.) and once i picked up the pace it became uber important and uber helpful! to keep that pattern and rhythm i realized i only needed to think about that out-breath: one out-breath at the end of the stroke; and one out-breath at the catch. no need to even think about the in-breath because that happens all by itself without any conscious effort. i also found it helpful to make a forceful exhale with some sound to it ....the sound of that "phwew" helps to keep the rhythm. thanks again austin, for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm for rowing! Concept 2 should put you on their payroll!

I keep this breathing pattern, too. Coming into the catch, as a queue, I like to think about my quads pressing on my diaphragm, forcing all the air out of my lungs. Obviously this isn't literally what happens, but it helps me exhale fully. Then, on the drive I imagine my lungs filling up, taking up space and pushing my quads back away.

You are a very talented explainer

thank you for the guidance.

Thanks again for the content

Really high quality video man. Your content is getting better and better. Have a 2k test this week and this will certainly help. Thanks!