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Strength Coach Roundtable #17: Black Lives Matter, guest Frank Clayton

Co-hosts Will Ruth, Blake Gourley, and Joe DeLeo sit down with guest Frank Clayton, rowing strength coach and outreach coordinator at the Oakland Strokes rowing program, for a discussion on strength training, current events, and the Rowers4BLM fundraiser occurring this Saturday, June 13th. Anyone can participate from anywhere as a rower or sponsor, and funds […]

Strength Coach Roundtable #15: Joy of Sculling Conference Recap

Hosts Joe DeLeo and Will Ruth presented and co-presented at the Joy of Sculling Conference in 2019. Will presented on low back pain and rib stress injury research and takeaways for rowers, rowing coaches, and strength coaches. Joe presented on the history of strength and conditioning training in rowing. Both co-presented “Strength Training 101,” intended […]

Strength Coach Roundtable #5: Performance Psych for Rowing

The Strength Coach Roundtable hosted a monster of a podcast about performance psych for rowing as we went nearly 90 minutes straight and all felt like we still had more to talk about. Will, Blake, and Joe were joined by guest Sara Hendershot for a discussion of performance psychology in rowing and how you can use […]

Strength Coach Roundtable Podcast Recap

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the first-ever Rowperfect Strength Coach Roundtable! We all three wrote an article series for rowing injury prevention here on Rowperfect UK. In case you missed it: Blake: General Injury Prevention Tips Will: Rib Stress Fractures Joe: Low Back Pain, Part 1 Will: Snapping Hip Syndrome Joe: Low Back […]

Rowing Injury Prevention Series: Rib Stress Fracture

This article is Part 2 of the Rowing Injury Prevention Series, brought to you by Rowperfect UK. In Part 1, Blake Gourley wrote about general injury prevention tips. Next, Joe Deleo will discuss low back pain before Will returns to break down Snapping Hip Syndrome. These articles will take us right up to February 14th when the three […]