If you’re new to the sport, this video gives a good overview of what each 500 of a 2k is like. This is good for coxswains to watch too so you can get an idea of how the athletes are feeling throughout the race and plan/strategize your calls and moves accordingly.
Videos
Video of the Week: Balancing act
Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
Video of the Week: Fueling an Olympian, pt. 2
25-30k kilojoules = 6000 – 7200 calories … a day.
Related: Fueling an Olympian
Someone should do one of these with coxswains (or lightweights). Same general idea, just a different approach.
Video of the Week: 360º of HUBC and the Charles
I haven’t jumped on the VR bandwagon yet but this is pretty cool. I like that you can look one direction and see how the coxswain is steering and then spin the camera around and watch the bladework.
Video of the Week: Joe Burk, 1938 Henley Diamond Sculls
“Burn developed a unique, personal style of sculling that took him years of experimentation to perfect. He engaged the arms, body and legs simultaneously at the catch, and rowed at unusually high stroke ratings for an entire 2000 meter race, over 40 strokes per minute.”
Doing that in an eight with seven other people for a full 2000 meters sounds arduous enough … imagine how taxing, both mentally and physically, it is doing it by yourself in a single.
Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
Video of the Week: Should you workout when you’re sick?
I’ve talked about this before but this video does a good job of explaining how to know if you’re good to continue working out while you’re sick or if you should just stay home.
Related: How to train when you’re sick … as a rower
Like they said, it’s better to lose a small amount of gains by taking time off when you first start feeling sick than it is to prolong your illness by continuing to workout, which can ultimately end up costing you more in the long run.
Video of the Week: Builders on the RP3
Motivation for tomorrow – the guys have their first 2k test of the season in the morning!
Video of the Week: Henley Redemption
This video, made by OBUBC’s stroke seat, shows the process of selection, training, and racing at HRR this past year where Brookes won the Temple Challenge Cup by an easy margin over Harvard’s JV8+.
Video of the Week: Just another day in Canada
Being a Student of the Sport
We’re currently in Cocoa Beach on our training trip and since awareness is something that we’ve been stressing to the coxswains while we’re down here, this video seemed appropriate given that it’s all about awareness and being a student of the sport, both of which are the two primary pillars behind what makes a good coxswain.