IROW Fitness Studio

A girl in a boat.

Foggy with a chance of sunshine 🌞

Summer is best spent on the water!

Junior rowers, improve your rowing and get some solid workouts with our small group classes at iROW Fitness Studio. The classes are meant for rowers 14-18 years old, with the minimum of one year of rowing experience. Availability is limited, so don't wait too long to sign up!

This summer iROW Fitness Studio is offering weekly classes for junior rowers, designed to refine technique, elevate fitness and prepare athletes for their 2k ambitions and rowing on the collegiate level.

These small group sessions will be led by coach Iva Boteva on Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:30pm-7pm, as well as Saturdays from 11am-12:30pm. Capacity is 2-5 rowers. Message for more info!

A girl and a boat. A rowing journey begins...

Foggy with a chance of sunshine ☀️

Sunday small group classes have been great!!! We are looking forward to adding additional classes in April (most likely Wednesdays). Stay tuned.

We have 1 spot available for our small group sculling class this Sunday at 9am. Who wants to join!?!

Rainy Day Special! On Sunday Feb 4, join one of 2 pop up indoor rowing classes (5 rowers max) for $35 per person (reg. $50) with coach Iva.

Classes are 60min long at 7:30am and 8:45am.

PM to reserve your spot.

Junior rowers, join me for a week of rowing and exploration in beautiful Bled, Slovenia! Coming up June 2024, registration deadline is April 1, 2024. Discount available for iROW clients and non rowing family members. PM for details.

Bring your dog to work day :)

"If you are not willing to learn, noone can help you. If you are determined to learn noone can stop you!"

You have questions about rowing technique!?! We have answers!!! Join us this Sunday, Jan 14 at iROW Fitness Studio for a Technique Workshop with Coach Iva Boteva for an assessment of your rowing technique and suggestions for areas of improvement for efficiency, performance and enjoyment.

Masters rowers: 10:30am - 11:45am
Junior Rowers: 12pm - 1:15pm

Cost: $60 per rower
Max capacity: 8 rowers

Moments on the water.

Time to sign up for our January classes. Energizing workouts, technique pointers and always good fun :)

Working on a rowing Camp for Junior Rowers in Bled, Slovenia Summer 2024. Lake Bled is not only one of the most beautiful lakes in Europe, but also a frequent choice of venue for many World Rowing Championships and other international competitions. PM for more information!

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Greetings everyone! We wanted to let you know about our Small Group Sculling Classes coming up on Sunday mornings starting January 7, 2024!

There will be 2 sessions offered:

Beginner*/Intermediate**:

7:15am - 8:45am

Intermediate/Advanced***:

9am - 10:30am

The times includes boat handling and launching, and rowing will be in single sculls (training boats) and double scull.

We need at least 2 rowers to be signed up per session, a week in advance in order to keep in on the calendar. Max capacity is 5 rowers. Coached by Iva.

Cost

1 Session - $85

5 Sessions - $380

10 Sessions - $720

10% discount for anyone signing up and using their own or club boat

To test the group sculling sessions prior to January we are offering the following dates:

Saturday Dec 16, 2023

Sunday Dec 24, 2023

For the purposes of these classes:

*A Beginner Rower is someone who is in the beginning stages of learning but not a complete beginner (first time rower). We require a minimum of 5 sculling lessons for beginner rowers to join.

**An intermediate rower is someone who has some rowing experience (at least 6months to a year) and familiriaty with the layout of the Marina. Sweep rowers who have never sculled will be considered intermediate and can join this group after 1-3 private lessons

***An advanced Rower is someone who has a solid sculling foundation and is capable of steering their boat independently.

Contact us for more information or if you'd like to sign up!

We are at Chase Park for the Head of the Marina Regatta (starts at 8am). Come say hi :)

Quick trip to Boston for a chance to row in the USC Alumni 8+ at the Head of the Charles regatta.

Nice to see some familiar faces and meet new rowing people too.

Thanks everyone, for the support!

Give rowing a try! Our next Intro to Indoor Rowing class is this Saturday, Oct 14. Perfect for complete beginners and those who need a technique refresher! Adults of any age and fitness level welcome but availability is limited (max 4 participants) , so reserve your spot soon!!!! See you at the studio!!!

Before the lesson begins.

Learn how to properly use a rowing machine and get a nice beginner friendly workout as well in our next Intro to Indoor Rowing class, Saturday, July 29 at 10:45am. 2 spots available! PM for details.

We are thrilled to welcome coach Eden Cooper-Squires to our coaching team for this summer. Eden is varsity coxswain for the USC Women's Rowing team and coxes for junior and U23 National team boats.

Eden is available to teach lessons on the water and at the studio and you are welcome to use our 50% off "New Coach Discount" until July 15, 2023 for lessons with her.

Greetings from Plovdiv, Bulgaria where despite my better judgement/lack of preparation I reunited with my best friend and rowing partner from my junior rowing years to participate in the Nationals Rowing Championships in the Open Category.

Other than a few members of the National Team, most of the rowers who participated were actual junior rowers, so I knew we most likely would finish last, but the opportunity to row on this beautiful canal, and reunite with my coach Tsoniu Grigorov, who made me the rower that I am, in addition to some of my former teammates was too good to miss. Finally, I knew that our participation would earn some points for my rowing club , which can improve team standing, and if I'm not mistaken possibly funding...

Speaking of funding, I will be putting together a fundraising campaign in the next month or so, to help my rowing club Lokomotiv Ruse with the purchase of at least two new rowing shells and a motorboat. The boats we rowed are between 25 and 45 years old, most are wooden, heavy boats, making it difficult to be competitive and discouraging for the young rowers on the team. The club doesn't have a single motorboat, which is not only essential for safety but also for for the quality of the rowing practice. In short, stay tuned because I am hoping to get some support here for the club which is still so near and dear to my heart some 25 years after I had left it And my country.

But back to the racing, we raced in 2-, 4- and 4x, and on average the rest of the rowers were 20+ years younger than us. "These are the rowers from the old times.." some young kid said, 😂

We somehow managed to get 3rd in the 2- and 4- and finished 5th in the 4x. This is all out of 6, it was finals only. A great time was had despite the hot weather and some equipment issues.

Next stop is my rowing tour in Austria starting early July, where I have a group of 11 American and Australian rowers joining me for a different type of rowing adventure. Stay tuned for more!

- Iva,
A rower from the old times

We are looking for summer coaches of the human kind. Bella here only managed to look pretty today, I had to do all the coaching ;) PM for details.

Qualities of rowing for leisure:

To do something meaningful

To feel at peace

To continue learning

To be at ease and unburdened

To experience beauty
..add your own...

FREE Intro to Indoor Rowing Class for the Culver City/Los Angeles community -

Choose any Monday at 7:15pm in February or March.

The class is perfect for complete beginners, relative beginners and those who have been away from rowing for a while and would like a refresher.

Limit 1 class per person per month.

Max capacity 4 participants per class. Ages 18+

Coach: Iva Boteva

Comment or PM to register.

Rainy Day Special tomorrow Wed Jan 4: Join us for a small group class at 6am, 7:15am or 8:30am. Great workout + helpful technical pointers. $25 per class (reg. $50). Max capacity 5 rowers. All levels welcome. Coach Iva Boteva
RSVP by 5pm today.