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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 […]
Time to Introduce Sprint Training into Your Programme
Calling all beach sprint rowers and coaches! If you have not done so already, it is time to introduce sprint training into your programme. Beach sprint rowers must be fast on the beach and on the water. Here I discuss how to introduce sprinting to the programme, with some session examples. That Irish Weather! You […]
Client Highlight: Kenny McDonald
Kenny has done it again! This weekend Kenny set a world record in the 1 minute rowing erg race with a split of 1:20.3 in the men's light weight 50-55 year old category. Only a week earlier Kenny set the world record in the same event in the semi final, subsequently breaking his own world […]
The Case Against ON Cloud Shoes in the Gym
ON shoes are increasing in popularity. As a previous owner of ON's "Cloud" shoes I can attest to their comfort under foot. They are lovely for long walks or jobs involving standing and moving for long periods of time (coaching in the gym for example). Increasingly I see more athletes wearing them in the gym. […]
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