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Tapering in Rowing (Repost)
When it comes to tapering in rowing, how much and when to taper can be a tricky thing to get right. Most rowing coaches know that they definitely need to taper for different occasions like testing, monitoring, or racing events. However, the magnitude and duration of the taper can often lead the athlete feeling fatigued […]
Who Wants It More?
As racing progresses in the Irish flat-water rowing calendar, it can be difficult to know if you're on the right track. Perhaps you've gone to an event and lost by a lot, or won by a lot. So where does that leave you? Racing in Cork this weekend, coaches and rowers will try to gauge […]
SuperComp in Rowing: Structured Process or Fingers Crossed it Works?
The Irish National Rowing Championship is soon approaching (July, 2026), and a term that is gaining traction or growth over the last few years is supercomp. Traditionally supercomp has been a 2 week (sometimes longer) period of very hard training before the championship - but are coaches using a structured process, or is it a […]
How to Interpret Your Rowing Power Profile
Have you recently been given feedback from Rowing Ireland's Beach Sprints High Performance (BSHP) group, but don’t understand it? There are many ways to interpret the info, and here are some examples to explain it in more detail. General Improvement Overall, it is ideal to see improvement across the profile in each test distance. However, […]
Regatta Season S&C? Use it Or Lose it!
For rowers and coaches in Ireland, this time of year often represents a shift away from gym work. Traditionally, many programmes would turn towards more water sessions with brighter evenings, sacrificing the gym sessions. The main instance I would take issue with this is that most of the gains in strength need to be manually […]
Physio Visit Cheat Sheet
The bottom line is if you don’t want to get injured, don’t play sport. Depending on the stage of the pathway you're in or your son/daughter is in, training demands will have a different impact on the body. Training to win will include intense training putting the body under pressure. Learning to train will put […]
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