Physiology
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, […]
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 […]
HRV – Your Best Tool for Measuring Recovery
HRV stands for heart rate variability. The variability comes from the time between heart beats. This is measured in miliseconds. When training we use a dose-response relationship. We want to be fitter so we give the body a dose of cardio/endurance work to force the body to adapt (the response). However our cardiovascular system is […]
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