About Will Ruth and Rowing Stronger

You find my online work in a state of hibernation. In 2024 I began new work as the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Norwich University, an NCAA-D3 school in close-to-home Northfield, Vermont. I still consult occasionally with the Craftsbury Green Racing Project teams, but this move has taken me out of full-time immersion in rowing and endurance sport.

All of my existing content will remain available here on my website, on my Youtube channel (exercise index and webinar recordings), shorter posts and training tips on Substack (post archives), and the “Rowing Stronger” book in PDF from my website and in print from Blurb.com, including the 2024 “Five-Year Update.” I’ll send out any changes or new content via Substack, so subscribe there for very infrequent notifications with no spam or anything otherwise. Please contact me with any questions or comments and I’ll be happy to reply when able.

“Rowing Stronger” has existed in a few different forms since 2015. I rowed in high school at Olympia Area Rowing in Washington State before going to college at Western Washington University. I played club lacrosse there, started competing in strength sports, and intended to leave rowing behind. Through some personal connections, I ended up returning as the strength coach for the men’s club team. I coached on-water as well as the strength training for five years after graduating with a degree in Kinesiology (focus Sport Psychology). I started writing during this time. In 2019 I finished a master’s degree (online) in Sport Coaching at the University of Denver, and my wife and I moved to Vermont. I began coaching in the Craftsbury Outdoor Center sculling camps that summer and continued online coaching, writing, and other rower/coach consulting and education work. In 2022 I went full-time at Craftsbury, helping to manage the sculling camp program and as the strength coach for their four-sport high-performance Green Racing Project program (rowing, Nordic skiing, biathlon, and running).

PS: All the hand-drawn artwork on my website and in my book is by my Olympia Area Rowing high school double partner Eamon Smith (stroke).