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Rowers and coaches want to know a few things about scheduling strength training with rowing. How do we make different types of training work together…
In this article, you’ll learn all about rowing power testing: why power tests offer important information, basic testing principles, rowing power testing protocols, and how…
Rowing peak power is the main training goal of the pre-season or pre-competitive block of training. This phase of training occurs between the off-season and…
Low back pain is the most common rowing injury, causing around 60% of rowers to miss at least one session per year. The vast majority…
Continue reading → Rowing Low Back Pain: What Rowers and Coaches Need to Know
Rib stress injuries are an overuse injury affecting up to approximately 10% of rowers in a given year of training. While not as common as…
Continue reading → Rowing Rib Stress Injury: What Rowers and Coaches Need to Know
Rowing injuries are typically defined as pain limiting the ability to fully participate in training as planned for more than 24 hours. This excludes minor…
Continue reading → Rowing Injuries: Understanding, Preventing, and Managing
Rowing has changed immensely in the last 40 years, with watershed points in training methods and performance standards due to equipment, access to the sport,…
Continue reading → Modern Rowing Strength Training Key Concepts
The Second Edition of my book, “Rowing Stronger: Strength Training to Maximize Rowing Performance,” came out five years ago this month. I’ve coached, written, and…
Continue reading → Five-Year Update to “Rowing Stronger, Second Edition”
It’s hard to gain strength, gain muscle, lose body fat, and increase rowing or erging performance all at once. Even getting just two of those…
Continue reading → Gaining Muscle, Losing Bodyfat, and Rowing Training
