Ergs Rowing Technique Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
By readyallrow
This is an interesting take on how to breathe while rowing or erging if you feel like you’re not getting enough air in when you breathe normally (i.e. inhale on the recovery, exhale on the drive).
College Racing Video of the Week
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By readyallrow
I first saw this back in mid-December on Twitter. The subject, Alex, is a rower on the men’s club team at Michigan and in the video he talks about finding inclusivity within the team and fighting against the idea that gay men don’t like sports, aren’t/can’t be good at them, etc. The assistant coach he mentions is Charley Sullivan, who I think coaches at Deerfield now. He wrote this article four or five years ago for Outsports, the same site that posted the video on Alex, talking about how being openly gay has made him a better coach. It’s worth a read when you’ve got some time.
By readyallrow
You might have noticed that I’ve been posting a lot of things lately that all circle around the same idea – there are no secrets to being a successful coxswain. There’s no secret training regimen, there’s no such thing as a magical call … everything is pretty straightforward, as long as you’re willing to put the work in. Bryan touches on that same idea in this interview from a few weeks ago when he talks about what traits tell him that someone has elite-level potential. The whole interview is worth watching/listening to but that part specifically starts around 4:20.
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By readyallrow
This is a neat hour-long interview with Ernestine Bayer, who is often referred to as the “mother of women’s rowing”, on her involvement with the sport, the founding of Philadelphia Girls Rowing Club in 1938, etc . There’s also some photos here that show her rowing in Philadelphia, her husband’s coxless four training for and racing at the Amsterdam Olympics, and other cool memorabilia.
College Racing Video of the Week
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It’s crazy that I’ve been posting videos every Monday for three and a half years and I haven’t posted this one yet. It’s been my favorite rowing video for as long as I can remember … and it’s not even a rowing video. Not really, anyways. I made the decision awhile ago that I wasn’t going to post it on the blog until the time was right because I didn’t want to post it on just any regular Monday … it had to be before something big. Well, now’s that time.
Last year at Sprints we lost to George Washington by 0.1 seconds. 0.1 seconds. Practically a bow ball. We came in 4th by 0.1 seconds and missed out on qualifying the eight for IRAs. One inch.
The inches we need are everywhere around us. On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. Claw with our fingernails for that inch because we know when we add up all those inches, that’s going to make the fucking difference between winning and losing … between living and dying.
In any fight it’s the guy who’s willing to die who is going to win that inch.
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Rowing Training & Nutrition Video of the Week
By readyallrow
“You can’t out-fit efficiency.” We’re starting to get into the thick of racing season and those inches matter now and they’re gonna matter even more over the next few weeks as we enter the championship regattas.
