Disaster7317 *cries in 5”6*

@@mariakr681 cries in 5,2

Power will do it too iam 5'10 raced at Top level

@@kevindunham3669 Olympics?

​@shaebrown2872 Should have gone in 84 was in 8 with Redgrave for the 8s head was pre selected for under 18s at 16

I beleive that if you stop any sport, you slowly lose the benefits.

Even at senior/elite level, without international status, a rower sculler will likely have a permanently enlarged heart for reasons stated here. The difficulty of retiring young or older is that if you do not keep up a steady “keep fit” program a fellow will have a robust gut/abs area.....due to the very strong core built up.....beware!!!

The pysiological advantages will obviously fade away, when you stop/reduce training. How fast and how far depends on how much or how little you keep training. However, I have found that after ending my competetive career (which was nowhere near top class - quite the contrary) still I always was a lot fitter than I should have been in relation to the training I was doing at the time. I remember coming back after a quarter year without any training at all due to a very mean and prolonged fight with pneumonia, and in the first week back on duty still outrunning all but three of the young recruits of my platoon at a 3000m test. That was ten years after the end of my rowing career. Some of that may be long-term adadtations, and it's always easier to get back in shape than to become fit in the first place, but I attribute most of this to the psychological aspect. As a former rower, you have learnt to push past the pain. You have also learnt to pace yourself - to read the pain, so to speak. You still know how fast you can go that you are completely wasted precisely at the finish line.

@@peterclark1041 young rower now and this is something that had never occured to me. your advice will not go unheeded!

Obviously when the heart get bigger and stronger, the heart rate drops. What has happened in he past is when athletes sleep, the heart rate drops very low, sometimes to a point at which life can not be sustained this means that they must wear and oxygen mask to keep them alive. If we are talking about rowing or any sport, a big heart is huge asset.

​@@isaacdean6238 Those extreme cases of bradycardia are associated with the use of PEDs, such as EPO. So, it's not solely the intense metabolic stress rowers place themselves under.

It’s all about technique. Opening you back too early will put lots of stress on your lower and middle back. Rowing machines are also very bad for the back because they need slightly different mechanics to score the best numbers and they are less fluid and tougher at the catch.