DOES A 2000M TEST ACTUALLY CHANGE ABOUT HOW ROWERS COORDINATE THE STROKE?

Alano, C. J., Vellucci, C. L., Battis, A., & Beaudette, S. M. (2024). The effect of neuromuscular fatigue on the spatiotemporal coordination of rowing. Applied Sciences, 14(16), 6907.

By Alex Wolf

Coaches spend a lot of time working on the sequence and timing of the rowing stroke. But how consistently do the joints move together, and does that coordination change as fatigue develops during a 2000 m effort? This exploratory study set out to investigate both.