Our Episodes
Masters rowing in South America
Join Santiago Fuentes to discuss
- the growth in masters rowing in South America (country by country differences)
- the main rowing events in the region - long distance...
Getting ahead or behind the boat speed
Ways to adjust your stroke to match the boat hull speed. Ways to move so efficiently that your body mass moves with the boat speed and improves your maximum boat...
Cardiac Health and Rowing
Hear Becky Wilson for an in-depth review of the considerations for the masters athlete in terms of cardiac health.
- Understanding your cardiac risk profile
- New to rowing or...
Ratio in strength training
Improve your rowing ratio while lifting in the gym.
Timestamps
00:45 Rowing can be improved by strength training
Lifting heavy has lots of benefits - today we'll talk about ratio. The contrast between...
White tape on the oar shaft
A visual reference to aide adjustments to blade depth.
Timestamps
00:45 Low technology solutions for rowing too deep.
The tape goes around the oar shaft so that when the oar is under the...
Using Mirror Neurons to Learn
How watching videos of good rowing can help improve your technique.
Timestamps
00:45 Using mirror neurons
Parts of our brain get activated when watching movement. Researchers noticed monkeys' brains were firing when watching...
Range of Motion
Masters have to pay attention to our range of motion as we age, without it we lose stroke length and raise injury risk.
Timestamps
00:45 What this is and how to...
Rowing lessons for work
Looking backwards to go forwards: what rowing taught me about big tech and what big tech taught me about rowing with Matt Brittin.
Timestamps
01:00 From schoolboy to the Olympics - from...
Strength Training for Masters Rowers
Alex Wolf & Sam Dutney in conversation. Two leading thinkers and innovators for masters rowing discuss strength training for masters.
The principles around maximal force applies everywhere.
Teach athletes how to express...
Oar protection
Defensive protectors for oars and sculls to prevent the paint wearing off and the spoon degrading.
Things you can do to preserve the spoons and handles.
Timestamps
00:45 Oars get wear and...