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
I continued my coaching focus on the return-to-train phase during my time with Norwich University. Unlike with the Green Racing Project, most of my coaching…
Continue reading → Returning to Strength Training After Time Away
The 30-30-for-30 system is 30 seconds on, 30 seconds off, for 30 minutes, using a rotation of different exercises. I like for the rounds to…
As in Part 1 (Tapering strategies for different racing scenarios), these are notes from a program planning meeting with the GRP Row coaches. I’ve added…
We had a program planning discussion as well as a rower workshop in my July consulting visit with the Craftsbury GRP teams. Here are my…
I presented this for the start of the summer U23 rowing program at the Craftsbury Green Racing Project (GRP) last month. I had about 20…
Continue reading → 5 Focus Points for Rowing Strength Training
I started using barbell pullovers myself last spring, then with some of the GRP athletes last summer, and then more broadly with a few Norwich…
Continue reading → Exercise Spotlight: Barbell Pullover Variations
