Matthew Tarrant is both a member of the GB Rowing Team and also the founder of RowElite - a service offering online training plans on the erg and an online rowing team squad everyone can join.

https://www.rowelite.com/

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Timestamps to the interview:

2:00 Introduction and my background in rowing

07:00 The pair is my favourite boat

10:00 How Jurgen selects his pairs for trials

13:00 Sweep qualifiers

15:00 What it's like joining the GB Rowing team - day one at Caversham Lake

20:00 Henry Baillehache-Webb was my coach at Oxford Brookes University. We did a lot of battle paddling and high intensity pieces

24:00 Henry's coaching style is developing athletes who give it their all

29:00 Starting RowElite

35:00 How to row technically on the rowing machine

40:00 Do you keep a training diary?

45:00 Heart rate and watts for training

50:00 Daily monitoring for athletes