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Read these articles to learn the rowing techniques that will get your rowing crew in shape. There are rowing workouts to bolster your rowing training program, as well as tips for the best rowing fitness… To browse our library of free sports training articles, use the categories on the left or the search box.

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Olympic rowing training programme

Eight-month training plan to improve all aspects of rowing

Circuit training: how to construct a rowing exercise

Constructing sport specific circuit workouts

Rowing training- constructing a workout

Constructing a Rowing Circuit

Recommended Protein Intake to Build Muscle Mass

Optimum protein intake levels for athletes and when to take protein to build muscle

Olympic Gold Medal Winners' Training Tips

What makes an Olympic Champion?

Strength Training Program Part 1: Competition Preparation

The best Weight Training Exercises to prepare for competition

Constructing a Sports-specific Training Circuit - Part One

How to Construct a Training Circuit for your Sport - Rowing example

Women's non supported dumbbell row

Women's non supported dumbbell row

Developing the upper and lower back will mean doing rows of all forms.

Low Cable Rows with Medium Grip Bar

Low Cable Rows with Medium Grip Bar

Rowers of all descriptions are important to shoulder health and power development.

Nutritional strategy for optimum rowing performance

Why fluid is the key for pre-competition lightweight rowers

Physiology in Rowing

New methods of monitoring elite rowers

Running and Swimming compared with Rowing exercise?

Power output and lean body mass – how do rowers compare with other athletes?

Rowing Performance Dependent on Height

Recipe for the perfect rower

Improve Rowing Performance

Power to the people – maximising your 2,000m rowing performance

Rowing Training for Veterans

Masters rowing – don’t fear the reaper!

Elite Rowing: Maintaining Maximum Condition

Life at the top – how are elite rowers tested and monitored?

Cycling Training improves sports performance

Can bike training improve the performance of non-cycling athletes?

sports science

Sports science: What have the sport scientists done for us? Craig Sharp on the interface between knowledge and performance

caffeine effects

Caffeine effects: Now caffeine's legal, is it worth taking?

lactic acid | lactate

Lactic acid: Lactate - 'bad guy' no longer, but rather one of the body's most vital fuels

sport specific weight training

Sport specific weight training

Back pain: rowing injuries treatment and prevention

Lower back injuries for rowers

Rowing: breathing techniques

A critical look at the way rowers breathe:

Synchronising breathing

Rowers work long and hard to perfect their rowing strokes, but should they also learn to coordinate their breathing with their rowing?

Weight training

Weight Training: In hopes of improving their raw muscle power, competitive rowers engage in weight training during the off-season, but new research suggests that they might be better off pushing on their oars instead of using weight machines or free weights.

Eating before competition

Eating Before Competition: Can you give your performance an edge by fuelling up before exercise? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no, and sometimes it can even have a negative effect. Here are the guidelines.

Glucose

Glucose: You can lead a muscle to glucose, but can you make it drink?

Building bone-mass

Building Bone-mass: Hoping to build bone mass? Try squash and weight lifting!

Vo2max

Vo2max Defined: For years V02max has been referred to as a gold standard of aerobic fitness. It is simply a physiological index that can be measured while you are exercising.

Training secrets

Training Secrets: Get out of the gym and on to the water!

Bone accretion

Bone Accretion: I was interested to read the article, "Rowing appears to be the perfect sport for bone accretion". Letter to editor from: Penny Chuter, OBE, Principal National Coach, Amateur Rowing Association, London W6

Training: altitude or sea-level

Training: Altitude Or Sea-level: In related work carried out by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, competitive rowers who trained at sea level achieved significantly greater gains in fitness, compared to rowers who trained at altitude.

Sequencing in Training 1

Sequencing In Training 1: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness

Sequencing in Training 2

Sequencing In Training 2: Get your training in order: how sequencing determines your overall fitness

Time-splitting and race results

Time-splitting And Race Results: If it makes sense to run the second half faster than the first, then why do the Kenyans
go out so fast?

Interval Training 1

Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts

Interval Training 2

Interval Training 2: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts

Longevity

Longevity: Exercise helps you to live longer, but how important is intensity?

strength training routines | strength training programmes | strength training

Strength training routines: most runners think that strength training routines are something carried out in a weight room or gym utilising various pieces of equipment (barbells, dumbbells, weight machines, etc.).

endurance training | Noel frost | rowing

In late 1996, at the age of 57, Noel Frost set two rowing world records in his sector - 55-59 male (heavy) - for the 30- and 60-minute distances. Here he describes months 2 and 3 of the training programme that led to the achievement

Methods, fitness, lung function

A critical look at recent research into training methods, fitness needs and lung function

treadmill training

Treadmill training: In mid-May, newspaper headlines trumpeted the news: treadmills are the best exercise device for individuals interested in burning calories and losing weight, beating stationary bicycles, stair machines, rowing devices, and cross-country ski machines by a whopping margin.

Conditioning

Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.

Noel frost | rowing world record

Noel Frost: How I started from nothing and won a rowing gold medal in nine months

Sodium bicarbonate

Sodium Bicarbonate: Research suggests it may boost performance in short events, but it can have nauseating side-effects.

Weight Training Routines

Weight Training Routines: What science has to say about circuit weight training routines

rowing training

Rowing Training: Here's the start of a month-by-month rowing programme which led to two world records.

metabolic rate and exercise

Metabolic Rate And Exercise: Researchers have been trying to puzzle out the effects of exercise on energy expenditure (calorie burning) for decades.

rowing machine training

Rowing Machine Training: Our veteran rower moves into the third stage of his record-breaking programme.

overtraining symptom | rest

All work and no play makes Jack an underperforming athlete.

Upper body

Upper Body: How to develop the perfect sprinter's upper body, thanks to Linford Christie.

Quantifying intensity

Quantifying Intensity: How to use heart rate to quantify your fitness training intensity.

Bone building

The basis of a healthy body is a strong skeleton. Here's how to look after it.

Use it or lose it

If you want to keep well as you get older, adopt the " use it or lose it" philosophy.

Training to Win

To win, you must prepare yourself to be the winner - not simply to "do my best"

Cross Training: A Triathlon Training Schedule

It can stop you getting injured and, who knows, might even help you to win

Pre-race dehydration

Pre-race Dehydration: When rowers try to meet international weight requirements for competition, they often resort to 24-hour, pre-race dehydration regimes in hopes of reaching the required weight.

eating disorder athletes

Eating Disorder Athletes: Female athletes who are obsessed by food and body weight can develop anorexia athletica.

Versaclimbing

" VersaClimbing" produces higher oxygen consumption than rowing or running, but a better workout?

Sport by sport diet guide

Sport By Sport Diet Guide: Whatever your sport, nutrition should be an integral part of your training and competition strategy. Although the emphasis will vary according to the activity you're involved in, there is a consensus among sports scientists on guidelines that athletes should be aiming for.

Injury rehab programme

Injury Rehab Programme: An injured sportsman is like a sick gorilla - no use and a lot of trouble. The coach has to deal with the mind as well as the body in maintaining the athlete's equilibrium.

Training volume

Training Volume: Long workouts and fast twitch muscles - a nice combination

strength training advice

Strength Training Advice: Is strength training really beneficial for endurance athletes? Here's a sport-by-sport review

strength training advice

Strength Training Advice: Is strength training really beneficial for endurance athletes? Here's a sport-by-sport review

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