RowingChat

RowingChat

By Rebecca CaroeSports
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RowingChat episodes

  • Greg Spooner RowPhysio on RowingChat
    Greg Spooner is a physiotherapist with deep expertise in rowing and movement analysis. Our chat covers how to deal with injury as a coach and as an athlete.
    Timestamps to the show
    1.00 Introduction and background in rowing
    2.00 Rowing the atlantic and why you should bring more food.
    Rowing into the Sun (book) by Jordan Hanssen https://www.amazon.com/Rowing-into-Son-Crossing-Atlantic/dp/1594856354
    04:00 My approach to injury rehabilitation
    08:00 Recurring injuries and why your spine is like a balloon filled with toothpaste
    12:00 Foundation of good mobility - 2 exercises to loosen your back
    15:00 Advice to coaches - stress communication about aches and pains.
    19:00 Sleep is a performance-enhancing drug for sport
    23:00 Advice for masters rowers without a coach. Use the internet to research ways to gain speed and comfort. Download the free Injury Prevention Starter on https://rowphysio.com/about/
    25:00 How to self-treat back pain - Read Will Ruth's collection of research studies https://rowingstronger.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/LBP-RSI-in-Rowers.pdf
    30:00 Sleep - to be effective you need an honest assessment of your current habits
    Sleep Study references:
    https://journals.lww.com/pedorthopaedics/Fulltext/2014/03000/Chronic_Lack_of_Sleep_is_Associated_With_Increased.1.aspx
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731144
    https://www.nature.com/articles/40775
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352721818301190?via%3Dihub
    37:00 Gear you can use to stay in good shape. Morph Collapsible Foam Roller https://rowphysioshop.com/
    The more you can understand your injury the better you can visualise and manage recovery.
    Key question to ask a doctor or therapist "Can you explain that another way?"
    Warm up link for rowing - 8 minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llp7ovdUWhc
    41:00 Remote consultations are available with Greg via www.rowphysio.com
    44 min
  • Graham Benton on RowingChat
    Full podcast details
    Timestamps to the show
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    03:00 Fastest erg time 5:42.5 nearly beating Matthew Pinsent
    04:00 Getting recruited to Tideway Scullers under Bill Barry as a coach
    10:00 World Class Start talent ID programme under Peter Shakespeare
    15:00 Henley final losing by 3 feet.  Graham has been in 3 HRR finals losing by a total of 10 feet.
    18:00 I love rowing and winning.  When you're good at something it's hard to walk away.  A poison chalice.
    19:00 Eddie Fletcher is my indoor rowing scientist coach.  He makes me confident in what I do.  It's about layering speed on speed.  Giving me the proof points that I can do it.
    21:00 Training as an older athlete - less is more.  In a race, the cox can talk over the demons in your head.
    28:00 I'm working on now is using the rate more.  My big scores were high 20s / low 30s.  Now for 10k I work on 34-36 stroke rate.
    31:00 The display I choose is the average meters to first / second place in a race [C2 race format].  I row a flat race profile, as simple as possible
    34:00 My sprint technique on the C2
    39:00 You may be surprised but I stop during a lot of training sessions, never in a race.  I try to assess the value of what I've done.
    44:00 Rowing with Bradley Wiggins
    50:00 How to improve your erg score.
    57 min
  • Ryan Demaine Headington School: RowingChat
    Ryan Demaine, Head coach of Headington School is my guest.
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    02:00 The state of school rowing in the UK.
    04:00 The structure of our school rowing programme by age - 140+ girls in the club
    08:00 Number of sessions per week for different age groups.
    13:00 No injuries in the group by starting slowly with weight lifting. The speed of the bar is important.
    14:00 Prioritise participation over performance Many schools don’t create an athlete-oriented environment.
    21:00 The athlete scholar - coined by Christine Wilson. You must be on top of your work or rowing suffers.
    24:00 Drop off between school and university
    27:00 Physiology Testing - Charlie Simpson uses 5 or 6 ergs lasting 10 minutes with 10 minutes rest between. 30 minutes is when the aerobic zone is for blood lactate and watts is the training band.
    31:00 Take watts from the gym into the boat - rate of perceived exertion on 1-10 scale plus Heart Rate plus lactate or watts.
    35:00 My coaching philosophy of how to move a boat. Relaxation, Rhythm, Efficiency
    42:00 Quad - confidence on how the boat feels
    48:00 Match racing skills. I care about the performance more than the boat speed.
    50:00 We should move the school exams to December and finish the rowing year in October.
    Read the full blog post https://www.rowperfect.co.uk/ryan-demaine-headington-school-on-rowingchat/
    59 min
  • RowingChat with Olympian Caryn Davies
    Timestamps to the show
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    3:00 What it is like stroking the US womens eight and being coached by Tom Terhar
    07:00 Funding is a blessing and a curse, it keeps the sport pure and there's little incentive to take drugs.
    09:00 Tom is our enigma. He cares a lot and wants the best for his athletes; is sparing in his praise.  I learned to stop questioning.
    15:00 The moment I became a great stroke, I realised that is doesn't matter what I do.  It's what I enable the team to do.
    19:00 The team connection is "glue" the coaching and culture we created our own bonding.
    21:00 Handling stress "Billie Jean King said pressure is a privilege"
    24:00 Rehabilitation from injury and the psychology of recovery - don't make yourself miserable.
    33:00 Her retirement - a legal career has a lack of goals and metrics to measure performance.
    50:00 What trade offs is Jurgen willing to make that other coaches don't?
    42:00 The differences between rowing at Harvard and Oxford
    44:00 Drills for junior rowers - learn to row feet out on an erg or boat at a stroke rate of 24 or less.
    50 min
  • Rowing Injuries & Rehab: RowingChat
    Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller is a leading sports medicine expert who is also a rowing coach.Timestamps to the show
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing.  A coach, an athlete and now a sports injury specialist. 
    02:00 What happens when an athlete gets injured?
    04:00 The body is designed as a series of hinges distributing the load across our joints
    05:00 When you get injured - getting pain is almost too late to spot an injury.  Recovery is an important part of training
    09:00 Heart rate variability ()HRV) is a tool to measure training recovery.  A relaxed body will have high variability.
    12:00 Strength is the common denominator to injury prevention.  Start teaching compound lifts to 12-14 year olds with body weight only.
    14:00 A technical critique of lifting is important.  There's a difference between exercising a joint and training it.  You have to train to fatigue to improve.
    Internet resources https://locker27.com/ and https://twitter.com/JeremyFrisch 
    18:00 Surgery as a part of rehabilitation.  Regaining strength after a definite diagnosis is step 1.  But pain can continue. Some get surgery because of pressure to make the team rather than because of the injury.
    30:00 The Rehabilitation process step 1 is diagnosis with imaging and anatomy insight and training load.  Step 2 is to judge the rate of force development
    30:00 Mental support through injury.  A good sports injury practitioner has confidence in meeting the guidelines for recovery.
    33:00 Many athletes lack awareness of what they eat.  Use My Fitness Pal app and record your diet for 2 weeks.  You need 2g of protein per kg of body weight to recover from a training session.
    39:00 Find the free online resources.  Mobility WOD, getting mobile outside training - the best advice for hip, back and shoulder mobility.
    43 min
  • FitClub on RowingChat
    Athene McGregor Macdonald started the app when she couldn't find a decent availability management crew management software programme for her club.  Today it's the most straightforward interface for a rowing coach and club
    00:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    01:00 FitClub is a simple app for clubs and athletes to do availability tracking
    04:00 As Captain of HSBC Rowing Club I found chasing people up for availability was a pain. Crew lists are needed.  Coaches get an overview.
    06:00 Attendance Screen view
    10:00 Crew lineups can be set.  USA Users have port and starboard and UK have bowside and strokeside.  
    13:00 Results - athletes view gives erg scores in time and also weight-adjusted.
    19:00 Weight adjusted scored come from Concept2 website algorithm.  You can change weight into Lbs or KGs.
    22:00 Data protection and privacy, FitClub is GDPR compliant.  You can delete your data and you can also download it for export.
    25:00 What's next?  FitClub will never be finished.  Boat Booking and results logging is next.
    28:00 Get started and sign up by creating a club name.
    31:00 It's easy to use is my last bit of advice.  Save time, get FitClub.
    Sign up to FitClub.me on their website - it's free for RowingChat listeners.
    33 min
  • Jurgen Grobler biography authors
    RowingChat: Jurgen Grobler biography authors, Hugh Matheson and Chris Dodd interviewed by Rebecca Caroe.
    Timestamps to the show
    01:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    3:00 What attracted you to writing this book without Jurgen's collaboration?
    07:00 Jurgen's one defining quality as a coach is thoroughness - how this shows and how Bob Janousek enabled its establishment in UK rowing.
    13:00 Moving from East Germany to UK rowing system was difficult for Jurgen - why?
    17:00 How Jurgen builds a squad of athletes over an Olympic cycle.
    21:00 Building a squad where the athletes have the ambition to get into Jurgen's podium crews.  Train hard or drop out.
    30:00 What other British coaches have learned form Jurgen Grobler's methods
    49:00 Hugh Matheson - how do you feel about losing a possible Olympic Gold Medal in 1976 to a doping East German crew?
    42:00 Leander club had fallen out with British Rowing and didn't ask the question about East German drug use
    50:00 What trade offs is Jurgen willing to make that other coaches don't?
    54:00 What are the flaws in the British Rowing system?
    1 hr 4 min
  • Julien Bahain: RowingChat
    Julien Bahain is a former international who is vehemently anti Drugs in Sport, and in favour of allowing athletes more say in lane draws at WorldRowing regattas.
    Timestamps to the show
    1:00 Introduction and background in rowing
    2:00 Falling in Love with Rowing
    05:00 Comparing rowing with horse riding
    08:00 The double scull is a complex boat comparing it to the quad
    15:00 The only race we didn't perform well in 2012 was the Olympic regatta
    17:00 If you only live for rowing it's a trap.  
    21:00 Retirement was brutal.  Who am I now?
    35:00 Comparing the French [dispersed] and the Canadian [centralised] rowing systems.
    40:00 Our Rio performance was stolen.  I've never been so fit before.
    43:00 My favourite boat manufacturer
    47:00 Doping in sport. Rowing has values as well as results. I'm an advocate for jail and life bans.
    54:00 The FISA Athletes Commission and the Lane Selection programme change we are lobbying for now.
    RowingChat is sponsored by www.Healthiq.com/rowing intelligent life insurance for athletes - get a quote and support us.
    We are doing a listener survey www.bit.ly/rowingchatsurvey
    1 hr 2 min

About RowingChat

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Rowing Chat is the podcast network dedicated to rowing. We have many shows hosted from around the world on specialist topics from Strength Training to USA news, from interviews to data analysis. Produced by Rebecca Caroe, it brings rowing news, coaching advice and interviews to you.

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