Rowing - 2000 metres of pure pain

What does it feel like to race in rowing? These athletes will tell you, it is no walk in the park.

[@nz2blue]

Irish guy perfectly explains

[@thelonesculler]

Pull like a dog

[@maxmel1778]

I think “2000m of pure pain” is a bit dramatic. I find that the first 50m is easy and then the next 1950m is pain

[@laura.3062]

Thats true

[@exotic_4642]

nah bro i think the first 100m are easy dont ya think

[@dachcken]

no it is 4000m of pain. You first need to row to the 2000 with all those big guys behind and in the front of your boat.

[@bb3xhrhj]

more like 1800 meters of pure pain.

[@andrewwexler4779]

Facts except when your winning

[@markopanger412]

If you never experienced it, you can't really imagine it. I think that's a sport that mentally shapes you.

[@JamesGardiner]

good video... it would be great to some day see the real time correlation of lactate levels during the different phases of a race. And watch as the rower suffers the inevitable plunge into the darkness :)

[@mates1307]

"the rower suffers the inevitable plunge into the darkness" what a painful but incredibly truthful sentence :D

[@dimitri1946]

A well known but seldom mentioned practice for dealing with "the rest of the race after the opening burst" is conscious EX-halation. Between 5 and 10 deliberate exhalations at the moment you feel you're going into a fade will put you right back into the action. This works. You will know that it works because when you have about 30 to 50 strokes to the finish line you will want to repeat the series of exhales and then go for broke. I believe that the rowers who are celebrating and have something left after crossing the finish line are the ones who exhaled and overall had the best control of their breathing. (They are also probably the ones with oversized hearts.)

[@GarraiEoin]

Yup,,, that always worked for me also. Getting as much of the air out, so the lungs can refill with air at a higher oxygen content percentage.

[@vonschenck6464]

What do you mean oversized heart, how so an advantage?

[@klauskoter3044]

@@vonschenck6464 They have a bigger heart that pumps more blood faster. The heart is a muscle and just like your bicep, with the right training and steroids it gets bigger and stronger

[@TheRower95]

Thank you for making me able to say what I wasn't able to explain..

[@vindupisuab7698]

Why I'm here? That was my mind at start always in 23 years rowing...But was always nice

[@chickenman6233]

I think what's more accurate is 1500m of pure pain. those first 500m is easy. the rest is awful

[@jaytorr6701]

It is the most excruciatingly painful performance in sports. 6 minutes of sheer pain

[@mitchellheffernan3024]

Or 8 if youre a slow mf like me

[@jessedebruijn8310]

I have been to the dutch champion ships twice As the guy who holds the boat at the start

[@mionavuinovic4920]

thank you for motivating me... yesterday i had a ragatta.... i was first in my state☺❤

[@valerieczyz2808]

Incredible - I congratulate all athletes! 🇨🇦

[@__8023]

Irish or Jamaican?

[@davidfoley1204]

_ _ Irish

[@ballagh]

Skibbereen. County Cork is a place onto itself, west cork even more so.

[@donnachakeeley1818]

Ahaha Jamaican?

[@skylarsmith7323]

RIGHT I WAS LIKE IS HE SPEAKING PATWAH

[@sgtdex3634]

I hattteee that pain u keep going and envetually it goes

[@eireyouok101]

Hon Eire!

[@ivanmustac2612]

2:35 he has a watch

[@Sobek26]

And??

[@noelgomez8742]

Esta del asco

[@guykr10]

Irish guy sounds like siri

[@uninsulatedshrimp5518]

Tom Ando. Are u there?

[@marcusroizen7424]

Mazeltav

[@crazynorth7249]

СРБИЈА СМЕДЕРЕВО ВЕСЛАЊЕ !

[@rpoer]

''Didn't take much notice of the pain while we were racing''...love it.