Aron: Hello and welcome. You're listening to "Rowing Down the River." On today's show we have Sean Wolf. He is a rower who rowed for the United States of American but not in the Olympics. He has a website called "Rowing Illustrated." He works with Wintech Racing, and King's Racing Shell. He is the national sales director and Wintech performance team coordinator.

In this interview, we talk about him as a rower; equipment such as boats, oars; coaches and many more. To check out Sean's website Rowing Illustrated, go to www.rowingillustrated.com or you can head to Wintech Racing where you can find out about the boats and the equipment we talk about in this interview. That website is www.wintechracing.com or kingsracingshell.com.

Hello Sean, and welcome to the show.

Sean: Thank you.

Aron: How did you get involved in rowing?

Sean: I got involved in rowing a long time ago in the fall of 1988 when I was asked to be a coxswain at Northeastern University. I got a little bit ... after several years of coxswaining I got a little bigger, I tried my hand at rowing, and I've been rowing ever since. Couple national teams, bunch of medals, bunch of races and meeting a lot of fun people.

Aron: I see, and what is it like to be a cox?

Sean: It was fun. It was ... we had some aggressive times out there in the river. You know, it was a little hard keeping the weight down after a while, so I had to get out of it.

Aron: I see, and where did you transition after the cox.

Sean: I transitioned. I ended up rowing my final year at Northeastern and then I end up rowing for Riverside Boat Club.

Aron: Okay, and was it in a single, a double, a pair, a quad, a four, an eight?

Sean: I've done them all. I've done everything from a single, double, pair, eight, I've raced in every boat in every weight class.

Aron: What has your favorite boat you like to row in?

Sean: Probably the single or the pair? The double is fun, too but sometimes as you get older you just don't want to deal with all the ... you could say the other egos in the boat.

Aron: Were you a lightweight or a heavyweight at that time?

Sean: I've always been a lightweight rower, I do race up in class to heavyweights as well. Might as well get double the amount of racing in.

Aron: Did you find that a problem with race time?

Sean: No. Not at all. I don't mind racing heavyweights. I've taken down my share of them. So, no problem racing heavyweights or lightweights.

Aron: When you went into University rowing, where did you go after that?

Sean: I went to Riverside Boat Club, and that's where I laid most of my bones in rowing. Done all my racing, pretty much at Riverside Boat Club, for Riverside Boat Club. A couple times on the national team.

Aron: I see. Looked back, did you enjoy it or do you regret it?

Sean: I still enjoy it everyday. I still row once or twice a day, everyday. Even to this day.

Aron: You know, today is about strength training, and endurance and so when you were rowing at your time, was it the exact same, or was it different?

Sean: For strength training? I mean, I've done both depending on the time of year, I guess I would say is when you would do endurance training to when you would do endurance weight lifting, to when you would do strength training which is mainly for those long hard months during the winter.

Aron: Tell us how you got into Wintech.

Sean: Let's see, I run a website called Rowing Illustrated, they purchased some advertising space off me, and connections started there. Then I heard they were looking for a regional representatives and a couple conversations later I was then brought on as the Northeast regional rep.

Aron: Were you finished rowing at the time both club and internationally, or were you still tipping away?

Sean: I finished up rowing internationally by that point. I was ...