Contribution of aerobic and anaerobic capacity to 2000 m rowing performance

Background Previous studies strongly have supported importance of aerobic capacity for 2000m rowing performance [1-3] and there are few studies that demonstrated anaerobic capacity had critical role in rowing performance [4-6]. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between 2000m rowing performance and anaerobic capacity, which were estimated by critical power (CP) model [7,8] and by all-out tests of short duration as well. We also examined aerobic capacity.