Rowing Chat

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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01:00 From schoolboy to the Olympics – from…