Faster with Bill Chambers

Recorded live at the European Junior Championships with Olympic and World Champion Iztok Cop, who walks through the entire Filippi small boat range.

If you’ve ever wondered which single scull actually suits your weight, your water and your rowing, this is the episode. Refreshingly open, and good fun, with one of the genuine legends of the sport.

What we cover:

• ​ How the brain regulates performance
• ​ The difference between pain and fatigue
• ​ Where his model departs from central governor theory
• ​ What’s actually happening when the voice in your head starts negotiating mid-race
• ​ How to prepare for a maximum test or race
• ​ Brain endurance training, and how to fold it into normal sessions
• ​ The role of sleep, meditation and recovery
• ​ Primers and cues that hold fatigue off

Books mentioned: Endure (Alex Hutchinson) and Sport and the Brain (Marcora).

Dr Charlie Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at Oxford Brookes, on fuelling a rowing programme properly.

What we cover:

• How to fuel different types of session

• What to eat after training and after strength work

• Supplements — BCAAs, beta alanine, protein: what earns its place

• Whether all calories really are the same

• What to watch out for in popular diets

• Options if you’re vegetarian

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Adrian won World Championship medals for Team GB from junior through to elite level, until an accident ended his rowing career. This is the comeback story — from a broken neck to coaching at Cambridge University Boat Club, then British Rowing, then chief coach at Rowing Ireland.

He also talks about why he built Ludum, the performance management software for rowers and coaches, and set up the Rowers Conference to raise the standard of coaching in the sport.

Dual Olympian, silver medallist in the Men’s Four at Beijing 2008, and co-founder of 776BC. Cameron’s route into rowing was anything but straight: a small country town, school rowing, then good enough at Australian Football to be recruited by the Western Bulldogs in 1999. He came back to the boat in 2001 with one goal — the Olympics — and rowed for Victoria and Australia for over twelve years.

We cover what transferred from elite sport into building a company, and what didn’t.

Career highlights: 2012 London Olympics (6th, Men’s Eight) · 2010 World Championships bronze (Eight) · 2009 World Championships silver (Four) · 2008 Beijing Olympics silver (Four) · World Cup gold in 2006 and 2008.

Join Greg and I, as we discuss Greg's preparations for this years Head of The Charles Regatta. How he adapted his training through Covid-19 and what he has been experimenting with.

Greg Benning, who started rowing at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and has been engaged in the sport ever since. Greg is the Vice-Chair of US Rowing and a multiple winner of the Head of The Charles regatta.

This episode is a recording of the exclusive Live event for the Masters Rowing Group and my newsletter subscribers. For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, go to www.whchambers.com and subscribe.

Listen to my conversation with Istvan Nemeth, Managing Director of Bont Shoes and Bont Rowing, as we discuss the importance of having the right fit and connection through the feet, from the drive and through the recovery. Istvan will cover some of the key points you need to pay attention to when choosing your shoe along with the latest developments from Bont Rowing.

Istvan and the team at Bont have a long history in creating shoes for cycling and rowing. With top World Tour Cycling, Olympic cycling and National Rowing crews using Bont shoes.

You can find out more on Bont Rowing.

This episode is a recording of the exclusive Live event for the Masters Rowing Group and my newsletter subscribers. For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, go to www.whchambers.com and subscribe.

In this episode I chat with the amazing masters crew that set the masters record at the Head of The Charles Regatta (HOCR). The Wallingford crew of Mike Edge, Pete King, Steve Pearson and stroke, Richard Smith – coxed by Sara Ball, won the 2016 regatta by 30-seconds, with a new course record of 17mins 5 secs. 

The crew share how they trained and prepared for the race. Everything from engaging a new coach, and partnering with an amazingly talented cox. How they used YouTube to get used to the bends and bridges, to mapping the race distance and course on their local stretch of water in Wallingford, Oxford.

You can discover more about the HOCR by clicking here.

Boat used was a Filippi coxed four out of Boston University.

If you are a Masters Rowers, and interested in training for the Head of The Charles Regatta, I have prepared training plans especially for you. Whether you are planning to race in Boston, or compete virtually, these plans will help you to be at your best. The plans are designed by the most successful Masters Rowers, specifically for the Head of The Charles, and for Masters with 6 hours a week all the way to 12 hours of training a week. Click on the link to check out the programs. HOCR Training Plan

My guest today is James Goodwin, Head of physical performance and science for the Swiss Rowing Federation. 

This episode is an extract from the Live Strength & Conditioning Masterclass, where James is presenting strategies and approaches to strength training for Masters Rowers.

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