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Good stress and bad stress - what they are and how to handle rowing stress | Faster Masters Rowing Radio - the podcast for masters rowing. Timestamps one thing to improve masters rowing. 02:00 This Past Week - Marlene met Tony, a faster master from Shurebrook, Canada. 04:00 Good stress / bad stress A good stress helps you grow , challenges you. Something unfamiliar but which stimulates you to improve. It pushes you in a positive direction. Bad stress is too much of a challenge which causes breakdown. Coach tells stroke "you are responsible for the outcome of this race". Putting athletes into situations which are way over their heads is inappropriate 10:45 Learning to push yourself into situations where you are vulnerable and uncertain is part of the rowing journey 12:30 Integrating new people into the club as an outing plan. Good stresses - training with incremental goals. Raise the bar gradual. A more challenging boat balance situation. It was clear we had gone too far so we switched boats. 18. 30