Purpose: to study the effect of different warm-up protocols on the performance of rowing ergometer. Methodology: 9 male rowing contestants from Tainan municipal TuCheng high school were recruited as subjects. Their average height was 174.89±3.18 cm, average weight was 66.44±6.46 kg and average age was 16.78±0.83 years. All of them were trained over two years and didn't own any sports injury record in one year. In study, all subjects should join experiments. In these two experiments, different warm-up protocols were imported. The time interval between these two experiments was one week. All data were analyzed by t-test for dependent samples for statistical analysis. Result: the performance after subjects underwent dynamic warm up was better than the performance after subjects underwent static warm up. Conclusion and suggestion: dynamic warm up was beneficial for the increasing of the performance of rowing ergometer and consequently dynamic warm up was suggested.