Here we'd like to talk about a problem that's quite common it's about shrugging the
shoulders on the ergo at the finish to hold my shoulders down at the finish of the
stroke on an Ergo I think about holding my elbows out slightly
I also allowed the handle to come through to the finish from the speed
that has been generated from the leg drive and the body opening by doing this
and not accelerating the handle around the finish I feel as though my shoulders
come through flat off and not up around my ears shrugging around the back end of
the stroke as you can see here this particular photo Ciona is demonstrating
how to put a shrug into the shoulders at the finish it's essentially tensing up
the shoulders lifting them up and then drawing the elbow through into a high
level and then dropping the elbows ends up involving a lot of small muscles in
the body and then causes particular issues of fatigue and also a less
powerful finish Here Ciona demonstrates how to finish correctly the elbows back
shoulders back and letting the handle come right the way through to the chest
here is joel during his world-record marathon on the
rp3 nice relaxed shoulders at the finish very important to be relaxed at the
finish so here Ciona with the shrug you
can see their handles up high the shoulders are up high the elbows are
close to the body and then as she pulls her handle through you can see her body
moves towards the handle at that point there's an alternate and taking the
stroke correctly you can see here that as she finishes the stroke off the
shoulders are still and the handle is pulled in to the body rather than having
the body moves towards the handle very important distinction much more powerful
finish here you can see the shrug it's here - it's a weaker movement the handle
gets pulled up high and then you can see the shoulders up high and then they drop
down at the finish not a very powerful finish you look and again let's watch
what the elbows are doing see the elbows end up high to start with
then they drop down a long way towards the finish I'd say here we have Ciona
from a front view watch what happens to the shoulders as we can't pull through
to the finish rowing with a shrug shoulders come up and then they drop down at
the finish if you watch what happens to the elbows you can see the elbows start
going out but up and then what as the shoulders are up but then as the stroke
gets completed you can see they drop right in close to the body not a strong
finish at all so here we have Ciona demonstrating a powerful finish and you
can see here it's done by making sure the shoulders aren't lifted up the
elbows are out a bit further makes it easier and you find you get a much more
powerful finish this way you can see here that the shoulders are not up as
the shoulders are held back the handle comes through the finish and there's no
shoulder shrug there at all just a clean finish we watch you can see here
how the body does not move towards the handle to finish body the shoulders
remain stationary and the handle is pulled into the body you can see what
happens to the elbow just like in the previous example but without the shrug
the elbow doesn't have a need to drop anywhere near as much and it's held
right the way through to just under finish there so i'd suggest watch your
athletes carefully if you're an athlete training yourself watching the mirror
and when you see the shoulder shrug which is very easily seen from the front
on and then work on it by by putting your elbows out holding your shoulders
down and having holding your shoulders in stationary position as the arms
finish off