Rowing coach Mark Ottobre shows Jamie how to pull with his back instead of his arms. The fix: use your back for about half the pull, keep your elbows straight, and repeat the movement until it rewires your muscle memory.
What I'm doing with Jamie is I need to break his habits. I need to break his pattern because this is a pattern that most people run. So at this point I'm still thinking, gotta do this, gotta do that, gotta do that. Like I'm trying to envision all the different things I need to do at once to get one seamless motion. So what I'm getting him to do is I'm putting my hand on his shoulders and teaching him that the first part where we initiate for in the row is we pull down and around. We want to do almost 50% of the pull without bending our elbows. And that just simply is a pattern that he's not used to. So we need to continue to repeat the pattern over and over again so that his default position is instead of
