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Being a parent and training for rowing are both time consuming. We discuss how one busy parent (Carl) manages his time to try to do both. Apologies for some of the audio breaks. We discuss - Times of day to train - Partner support - Finding a crew who understands - Erg training versus water training - Racing and regattas Top tips were supplied by members of the Masters Rowing International Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/595853370615544/ Thanks to you all. Here are their quotes Alessandra Novak - be gentle with yourself Margot Mayor - Rowing is a mistress that never has enough Guillermo de las Casas - training erg at home, Waterrowers make less noise Cristin Flynn - forgive each other in the crew when we miss sessions Natalie Dustman - ask the coach about flexible outings and check out online coaching www.fastermastersrowing.com Taya di Angelo - at regattas use the power of the rowing village while you're on the water to mind the children Catharine Saarvela - Irvine is a coach and she conne

Marlene and Rebecca discuss race day eating tips, how to video your crew effectively for coaching analysis. Active recovery paddling, eating and hydration and the Go Pro mount kit from Oar Inspired. Timestamps to the show 0:01 Race day eating tips 11:00 Race day finishing sprints 19:30 Rowing video analysis how to do it; what not to do SPECIAL OFFER - the GoPro rowing boat mount for 4/8s or 1/2x is available at a 20% discount when you use the coupon "Rowingchat" at the checkout. https://www.oarinspired.com/product-category/accessories/ There are two adjustable sizes available: Single and pairs adjustable from 500mm – 1000mm 4’s and 8’s adjustable from 740mm – 1200mm Faster Masters Rowing Radio is sponsored by www.fastermastersrowing.com training programs for masters.

Sander Roosendaal is the founder of the Rowsandall.com rowing data analysis website. Today we discuss how to use rowing data to plan, measure, adapt and repeat your training goals. Sander starts by explaining the 3 steps needed 1 - a framework is needed to organize the data - https://rowsandall.com/ 2 - efficiently analyse the data to draw conclusions 3 - use the conclusions to drive specific feedback on technique and fitness to be used by the athlete. Timestamps to the show 01:00 Introductions and background in rowing 03:00 Turning rowing data into performance improvement 05:00 What is the "Critical Power" concept? 11:00 These performance curves should be based on power - joules versus watts [Work vs Power] 17:00 Recording rowing data enables you to construct a very precise critical power curve 20:00 Preparing for head races using rowing data 29:00 Applying the same method to sprint racing 35:00 Does this work in team boats? 39:00 Power is not the only measurement 44:00 Summary Links to help you learn m

Tune in for a discussion about the transition to Head Race season - news, training, and racing strategies for races from the Hooch, to Head of the South, to Music City Regatta, to Head of the Lake in Washington State, to Head of the Charles #55 in Boston. A fun discussion with Tara Morgan of Seize the Oar and Vashon Is. RC and Ryan Worth, head coach for UT/Chattanooga and SE rep for Swift Boats. Ready, Row! USA broadcasts feature the best of rowing news, gadgets & gear from clubs,companies, and rowers across the country. Ready, Row! USA is part of the international Rowing Chat network. You can subscribe at https://rowing.chat to receive notifications of upcoming shows, send in news tips, and join our community on this website and on our YouTube channel. The producer of Ready, Row! USA is Charlotte Pierce; assistant producer and host is Tara Morgan; our regular correspondent and sometime host is Mark Wilson; and our executive producer is Rebecca Caroe of Rowing.Chat.

Ready, Row! USA: Lifelong Rowing by Rebecca Caroe

Welcome to another exciting episode of Ready, Row! USA, as we continue regular broadcasts featuring the best of rowing news, gadgets & gear from clubs,companies, and rowers across the country. Ready, Row! USA is part of the international RowingChat network. You can subscribe to receive notifications of upcoming shows, send in news tips, and join our community on this website and on our YouTube channel. After our brief holiday break, we'll focus on a fun mish-mash of the "ham & eggs" of rowing - boat naming, masters coxswain care & feeding, in-boat water bottles, seat racing, air travel to regattas, oar grips, developments at US Rowing; a Canadian study on Masters athletes. Expect a lively discussion! Remember to submit your favorite Gadgets, Gear & Hacks and your Club News and let us know if you'd like to come on the show and showcase your rowing club. No club is too small, too new, or too old! The producer and host of Ready, Row! USA is Charlotte Pierce; our regular correspondents are Mark Wilson and Tara

A conversation with Marina Muffelman of "WhereBoatsGo" and how Yoga can benefit your rowing and life overall.

Chris Hartley is the brains behind the resurrection of the Kings Cup - a race last run in 1919 at the Henley Royal Peace Regatta. Noticing the upcoming centenary he started a three year and multi mile journey to revive the event. Chris talks to us about the concept, how he added two new countries to the race roster and the background to designing and commissioning the beautiful new trophy and its design significance.

Paul Thompson is head coach for the Chinese Rowing Federation. He talks about the challenges of coaching through a translator; getting visas to train in Europe, coaching catches and a relaxed recovery.

Tips for training and rowing in the heat and how to transition to racing at high stroke rates. Faster Masters Rowing Radio July 2019 is hosted by Marlene Royle and Rebecca Caroe. They write monthly training programs for masters rowers at www.fastermastersrowing.com 0:00 Introduction and summary of what’s in the July Faster Masters training program 4:00 Rowing and heat - home made electrolyte. Know your medications. 8:00 Rule number One for hydration. Calculate your sweat rate https://www.britishrowing.org/2018/06/beat-the-heat/ 13:00 How too acclimatise to heat. The W.U.T. protocol. Pre-cooling your body. 20:00 Transitioning to doing high rates in the boat. Good bladework is key. Four Workouts you can do: Speedplay / fartlek; Speed bursts; Accelerations; Stroke Transitions; Speed ups. Thank you to our sponsors.  You can help keep RowingChat FREE by visiting our sponsors websites www.rowing.chat/sponsors This month RowingChat is supported by Faster Masters Rowing training programs for masters - 6 mo

We bring in special guest Dr. Fiona Wilson for this episode to discuss core training for rowing. Dr. Wilson is a rower, physiotherapist, academic researcher and professor at Trinity College of Dublin, and part of World Rowing’s expert panel for the Low Back Pain Clinical Pathway project debuting in 2019. In this hour-long episode, we clear up what exactly IS “the core,” what is the importance of the core for rowing performance, how to train the core for better performance and reduced risk of injury, and things that rowing and strength coaches should stop and start doing in their rowers’ training 0:00: Introductions Will Ruth: RowingStronger.com, @StrengthCoachWill, @willruth335 Dr. Fiona Wilson: @FionaWilsonf World Rowing Article: “Updating Low Back Pain Understanding” http://www.worldrowing.com/news/back-pain-rowing-update-current-understanding 3:50: Defining “the core” instagram.com/sarahendershot/ 9:20: How does the core contribute to rowing performance? Combination of propulsive power and force tran

Meghan wrote a stinging critique of US Rowing coverage of the US selection regatta on her blog. https://meghanoleary.net/2019/04/24/why-elite-rowing-will-never-be-popular-in-the-united-states/ We discuss the challenge and opportunity of media engagement for the future of rowing. 01:00 introduction and background in rowing 03:00 What made you write the blog post Why elite rowing Will never be popular in United States https://meghanoleary.net/2019/04/24/why-elite-rowing-will-never-be-popular-in-the-united-states/ 06:00 What media was present at the US selection regatta? 09:00 Do you have a media contract with US Rowing? 15:00 Being a rowing writer and living the journey through writing 17:00 The ideal media future for rowing. Media and sports develop new disciplines which become mainstream. 29:00 Withholding niche sports in Olympic Channels - a sub license 31:00 World Rowing online media brand and sponsorships 45:00 Brands should look to where their future audience is 48: Bringing the public closer to rowing

Welcome to the Ready, Row! USA podcast, as we continue regular broadcasts featuring the best of rowing news, programs, gadgets & gear from clubs and rowers across the country. Today's topic is Learn-to-Row (LTR) in honor of US Rowing's Learn-to-Row Day, June 1. We like to call it the start of Learn-to-Row MONTH! Our newest correspondent and today's host is Tara Morgan, founder of Seize the Oar Foundation. She’s also a Learn-to-Row evangelist, and a coach/member of the Vashon Island Rowing Club in Washington State. She joins regular correspondent Mark Wilson of the All-American Rowing Camp in DeLand, FL. Please check out our fabulous sponsors! Watch or listen for discount codes or visit Rowing.Chat/sponsors. Tara's Tips for Making It Stick HOST or VISIT A National Learn To Row Day event COLLEAGUES - TALK TO EACH OTHER - Check out my Learn To Row Facebook page LTR COACH SHORTAGE: We are in an LTR coach shortage in our community, a masters coach shortage in general in the PacNW. PLANT THE SEED: Learn To Ro

Data is an essential part of rowing coaching and training. How much do you understand about how to use information to optimise your workout? Collecting data in rowing - where can you get data from? Being a data “janitor” - cleaning your data to ensure what you have is sensible. The Ethics of data collection Develop your hypothesis for rowing coaching - a new lens Why should we care about rowing data? Measurement shouldn’t over-ride the human factors in the boat What is the opportunity cost of not looking at rowing data? Using data to optimise your workouts. RowingChat sponsors Rose and Thorne Active Bra https://rowing.chat/sponsor/rose/ Just Strong Athletic Clothing https://rowing.chat/sponsor/just-strong/ Mind Games Book by Annie Vernon https://rowing.chat/sponsor/mind-games-book/

Marlene Royle and Rebecca Caroe discuss food and nutrition for rowers and how to practice racing starts. Nutrition - from Nancy Clark's seminar . "Sports Nutrition: Clarifying the confusion about what's best to eat".  The link below is to the 5th edition of Nancy's classic book.  Rowing Chat has an affiliate link code.  A more recent edition will publish on 20th July 2019.  https://amzn.to/2QtDJdU Practicing Racing Starts Start with 3 strokes Build up to 10s Ensure you include starts in your race warmup Set a target race rate you want to hit - and make sure you do it Practice the first 3 strokes - they are slower than you think. Before doing starts in training - do some power strokes to get in the mindset of working hard. Faster Masters Rowing is now launched. https://fastermastersrowing.com/?utm_source=FM%20Radio%20June&utm_medium=Soundcloud%20link&utm_campaign=Launch We have started a new subscription training programme service - get monthly training and technique advice for masters. In June's Faster

Welcome to the spring season of the Ready, Row! USA podcast, as we continue regular broadcasts featuring the best of rowing news, programs, gadgets & gear from clubs, vendors, and rowers across the country. Ready, Row! USA is part of the international RowingChat network. You can subscribe to receive notifications of upcoming shows, send in news tips, and join our community by visiting the website. Your host and producer is Charlotte Pierce. Our studio director is Nancy Diessner, and we both row out of Community Rowing in Boston. Today our new correspondent Tara Morgan joins me for a look at our fresh crop of Gadgets & Gear submissions.  NOTE: Please listen for the episode hashtag and a chance to win a Coastal Rowing outing with Tara on Vashon Island! Please check out our fabulous sponsors! Watch or listen for discount codes or visit Rowing.Chat/sponsors. Mind Games by Annie Vernon, sports psychology book Rose & Thorne the Active Bra with built-in confidence JustStrong athletic gear, especially for women V

Annie Vernon rowed for Great Britain at two Olympic games and had a rapid ascent through the womens sculling crews to the top boat.  Now retired, she has written a book about the mental skills of elite athletes - Mind Games.  We discuss nature, nurture and training the mind and the techniques which have propelled some seemingly unlikely candidates to the pinnacle of sport. Timestamps to the interview: 0.00 Background in rowing and Adrian Cassidy as Annie's first coach to take her towards high performance. 03:00 What is in your head as an athlete?  How did you become aware of mental training - Chris Shambrook. 06:00 Nature, nurture and training - confidence building.  Belief, honesty, trust, composure, momentum and the fraud mentality 16:00 What is an emotional driver?  When the going gets tough... 21:00 Does talent need trauma  Judy Murray - tennis star.  "Prepare the child for the path; not the path for the child." 27:00 The talented athletes often don't work hard. Why? 30:00 Decision making under pressure

Please check out our fabulous sponsors! Watch or listen for discount codes or visit Rowing.Chat/sponsors. Mind Games by Annie Vernon, sports psychology book Rose & Thorne the Active Bra with built-in confidence JustStrong athletic gear, especially for women TOPICS What is Coastal Rowing, how is it different from our beloved sport of sculling, and are we all going to need to buy new boats (YES!)? Is this like the Viking galleys? ;-) Nope, still sculling, but more robust boat, oars Just catching on in US, been a while in Europe and UK Who can Coastal Row? Only the very strong and supremely fit? Flat water to 4’ swells - it’s all available for variety of levels, mellow to wild Where in the US is Coastal available? Directory? Link: World Rowing Regattas - Where to get boats? Who will be entering? 1. Sarasota   https://www.sarasotacoastalrowingassociation.com         2. Blackburn Challenge    http://www.blackburnchallenge.com/BBC_Race_Info.html 3. Lighthouse to Lighthouse   https://www.lighthousetolighthouse.org

Ready, Row! USA #13: Club Spotlight Premiere CLICKABLE URLs at https://rowing.chat/ready-row-usa Welcome to Club Spotlight, a new feature of your Ready, Row! USA podcast. Today, we welcome special guests Lauren Crandall who rows on the Mighty Mississippi at the Minneapolis Rowing Club and Nancy Kellner, a co-founder of We Can Row DC and member of Potomac Rowing Club in the nation's capitol. Your host is Charlotte Pierce of Pierce Press. Please check out our fabulous sponsors. Discount codes are shown on screen. Mind Games by Annie Vernon, sports psychology book Rose & Thorne Active Bra JustStrong athletic gear, especially for women WIN A ROWING PRIZE! Listen for the episode hashtag and post it along with the YouTube watch link on your social media for a chance to win great rowing gadgets & services. This episode's prizes are two items of cool rowing swag (tshirts, buttons, etc.) provided by our guests! The winner will be announced at our next podcast, scheduled for May 15. CLICK HERE: https://goo.gl/form

Noel Donaldson is the coach behind both Australia's Oarsome Foursome - arguably their most successful crew over recent olympiads and the Kiwi Pair.  He has more recently coached the Kiwi Pair and the NZ mens eight. We discuss how he worked with Eric Murray and Hamish Bond who were already successful by building flexibility into their training. Timestamps to the interview: 0.00 Background in rowing 02:00 the history of the Australian Oarsome Foursome 06:00 Coaching athletes from the beginning - never assume you know it all - every athlete is different 09:00 Schools are a microcosm of elite sporting programmes when modern equipment came in they started chasing wins 12:00 Club rowing and the elite programme. Centralised system was resisted by clubs.  They have a role in athlete development. 16:00 Centralised versus decentralised training programmes 18:00 Starting with a new crew - land education on the ergo.  Mix of other athlete experiences.  Put a second button on the oar for beginners or para pontoons onto a