Rowing education for every level. We teach you how to turn the rowing machine into your most powerful tool for fitness. Train smarter. Move better. Get stronger.
At Dark Horse Rowing, we believe everyone can excel at their chosen pursuit of fitness and they deserve support, a community, and the tools to help them get there. We do this by un-complicating rowing, building an online community of support, and make our workouts usable with other programs, simple to understand, and mobile accessible. Dark Horse Rowing is both a program and a coaching tool to imp
When you ask me what I’m thinking while I’m trying to survive my workout…
(Just me, my engine, and my strips holding it all together) ✨
The Dark Horse experience, reimagined. 🚣
We took the same structured training you trust and built a better home for it.
Introducing the revamped Dark Horse App.
Coming soon with a simplified Ul and a more intuitive path to your next PR. We didn’t change the method, we just made it easier to follow.
Get ready.
As we get older, strength becomes one of the most important things we can train.
The Concept2 StrengthErg was created from the founders’ own journey — building a tool to support long-term health and strength.
What makes it different?
• Flywheel resistance that measures the work you produce
• A low-risk training environment — no dropped bars or heavy plates
• A completely new category of strength training
Because it’s so new, there aren’t established benchmarks yet.
That means you get to create them.
Train, track the work, and build strength that supports you for the long run. 💪
04/18/2026
Hitting that 3 x 30:00 for the dialed in split/rate always feels great. Also, I love that unintentionally made a uni in Dark Horse colors.
This week has been recovering from a gnarly cold resulting in a sinus infection but at least I can be staying on top of my “Zone 2” volume to try and stay sane and I always try to throw in at least one long BikeErg per week.
I’m doing a lot of work re-organizing my stroke atm to play with better rib engagement and more serratus and lat grab at the catch rather then a sneaky elbow break. It’s been months in the work but it’s really paying off.
Often when we are talking about Rowing, we end up, focusing on leg drive, keeping the body from opening too soon, breaking arms early, but our ability to engage with the Serratus to get our shoulders connected to our rib cage for stabilizing maybe one of the more important primers that we think of going into a workout.
Many errors in the Rowing stroke come because people don’t understand how to stabilize with the whole trunk and rather revert to opening the shoulders early to use the back and post your chain exclusively.
The kettlebell arm bar is a great exercise for teaching the scalp how to keep the shoulder down and engaged while protracted rather than only being able to retract the shoulder for stability.
The Concept2 StrengthErg brings flywheel resistance into strength training.
Here are a few movements you can perform on it:
Lower Press:
Sit against the backrest, draw the machine in, and press away.
Upper Pull:
A pulling movement similar to the effort of a pull-up.
Upper Push:
Tighten the k**b, release the brake, draw the machine in, and press.
Because the resistance comes from the flywheel, the machine can measure your output — giving you real feedback on the work you’re doing.
A different way to think about strength training. 💪
Stressed out? Not sleeping? Performance is off?
Your breath is probably why 😮
Most of us are literally breathing wrong and have no idea. Your breath controls way more than you think — your stress, your focus, your sleep, your digestion… all of it.
So real talk, are YOU controlling your breath, or is your breath controlling you?
Trying to lose weight but don’t know where to start?
You’re not alone.
There’s so much noise out there… different plans, different advice, different “best ways.”
Start here:
Do it for you.
Ask yourself:
Why do I want this?
The Dipsea. Oldest trail race in the country. Started in 1905.
Five years ago I sprained my ankle on this course, came home covered in dirt and mud, and fell completely in love with it.
This year was my fourth time running it. And I trained differently - mostly zone 2.
Zone 2 is simple. Take 220 minus your age. That's your max heart rate. Train between 60 and 70% of that. That's it.
Harder than it sounds. More effective than most people think.