Rowing Chat

Fear of failure

Limiting beliefs can hold you back due to fear of failure…

Coach the rower’s head

The role your head plays in correct posture and form. What happens when your head moves away from your work and why your body will always follow where your eyes…

3 Essential Rowing Reference Points

The most experienced rowers aren’t thinking about every movement: they are hitting three key checkpoints only. The finish, quarter slide and three quarter slide.
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01:30 The Finish
The finish is the only…

Form = fitness minus fatigue

0:00 Tapering is reducing volume while maintaining intensity. Deloading is drop volume and intensity. Remember form = fitness minus fatigue.
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00:45 How fit are you to race and train?
Three ideas for…

You get out what you put in to rowing

Dr Malcolm Howard, Canadian eight Beijing 2008 “People say it was always so easy for you, so straightforward. But it’s always been about the work. Rowing, by its nature, is…

Rigid rowers miss water

Why do so many masters rowers struggle with catch timing despite endless practice? Al Morrow’s counterintuitive principle. The causes and cures of rigidity in your body and the amazing catch…