what lifts to use lifting shoes
Bonus Rating. Since many people use Olympic lifting shoes in CrossFit-style workouts, we also asked our testers to rate how well these shoes might cross over to other events such as jumping rope and box jumps. The inov-8s were the highest rated in this category as they were comfortable and the lightest of the shoes.
So my short answer would be it all depends on the athlete's preference whether or not they feel the weightlifting shoes actually help them when it comes to rowing. I'd say for short sprints on a rower (i.e. 500m sprints, or 250m etc) weightlifting shoes would be ok.
The same goes for if you use wrist wraps and donât bother to strengthen your wrists without wraps, or if you use a belt and donât learn to create torso stability without one. If you can do a decent squat in weightlifting shoes but your air squat in bare feet sucks, you need to work on your mobility. âFair enough.