Fitness Testing

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, […]

Who Can Do it Better? Coastal, or Flat-water Rowers?

Now that rowing beach sprints have been added to the Olympics for 2028, the interest and demand for beach sprints has grown. Naturally, athletes see an avenue to Olympic glory in 2028. The same rowers might be just missing out on similar opportunities from the flat-water/river rowing route. Flat-water or river rowers both have they're […]
Different indoor rowing machines

Stuck in the Mud with Your 2k Score?

It's common for rowers to get stuck in the mud with their 2k score. Often, rowers work hard all year round to improve their score only to find it plateau. This plateau is relatively common but there is a solution to your problem. You're Working too Hard! When reviewing scores and data of really dedicated […]
coached rower

Free 2k Race Plan Strategy!

Apart from the gruesome pain of a 2k rowing test, one of the biggest challenges is learning how to pace, and plan. Planning for a 2k is so important and as the saying goes, "failure to plan, is planning to fail!" Below I give a brief description of a free 2k race plan strategy. Long […]
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