by Fellow rowing strength coach Blake Gourley and I co-authored a three-part article series for the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s NSCA Coach online magazine in 2019-2020. These articles are available for free to NSCA members, and available for purchase for non-members below. NSCA Coach aims to provide practical, evidence-based training resources to strength coaches across sport specialties and athlete populations. The publications are reviewed by an editorial review board and are written in a more conversational tone than peer-reviewed academic journals. As a reader, NSCA Coach is my favorite NSCA publication. I’m pleased to team up with Blake and bring the first rowing articles to the magazine.
Our goal with this series is to move the worlds of rowing and strength training closer to each other. We want to inform strength coaches interested in learning more about rowing training and performance, as well as rowing coaches and rowers interested in learning about strength training practices.
- Part 1: Rowing Injuries. We break down injury research and identify methods in rowing and strength training for rowers and coaches to reduce risk of injury.
- Part 2: Strength Training for Performance. We address strength training for rowing performance, with details for needs analysis, periodizing, and programming.
- Part 3: Conditioning aka Energy System Development. We discuss energy system development and bring it all together with alignment of strength coach, rowing coach, and rowers.
Our three articles appear in issues #6.4 (November 2019), #7.1 (February 2020), and #7.2 (May 2020). NSCA members can access journal archives here to read all articles and issues of NSCA Coach, included in your NSCA membership. Non-members may download just Blake’s and my articles below for free. Enjoy!
Click/tap/etc. here to download the three-pack PDF.
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