About

Hey, I'm Coach Austin!

I'm known as "the rowing guy" to many - having been a competitive 4-year collegiate oarsman for University of California, Davis and rowing content creator since 2016.

But I'm also widely known as "Training Tall", which has been my long-time online fitness alias since starting fitness videos on YouTube in 2016. I am 6 foot 8 inches tall (203cm to the rest of the world outside of the United States)! Training Tall has never been about "tall fitness content"; instead, I've always been about taking your fitness and health above the average no matter how tall you are!

After having won ACRA National Championships in 2015 (pictured above) and been a part of the prestigious rowing club Penn AC (pictured below), I realized the rowing world can be very "exclusive". My goal is to help the everyday person understand the benefits of rowing and have fun along the way!

I've been a Certified Personal Trainer for over 12 years and have also coached Orangetheory Fitness for almost a decade!

I've helped hundreds of individuals in person and thousands online over the span of the last decade using rowing as a cornerstone of fitness and health, creating the rowing brand Just Row - to demystify the confusion behind the exercise while empowering others to ditch the excuses and just row!