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Training for the Complete Rower: A Guide to Improving Performance Kindle Edition

by Paul Thompson (Author), Alex Wolf (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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This book aims to provide and challenge coaches and rowers with best practice, advice, principles and training programmes to improve their rowing experience and performance. Regardless of whether you are looking to improve on-water performance, set an indoor rowing personal best or enhance the quality of your training you will find something of value within these pages. Topics covered include: training and technique; egrometer training; specific rowing conditioning; strength training; monitoring and assessing land training; mobility and flexibility; weighlifting technique; trunk training; nutrition and mental skills. 'With the approaches detailed in this book, were were able to break records on the water and on the rowing machine and face our Olympic final feeling totally prepared and genuinely excited about the challenge. Regardless of your starting point, the guidance in this book will help you take the next steps towards your own goal, and to making your own magic. Good luck!' Dr Katherine Grainger CBE and Anna Watkins MBE. Aimed at coaches and rowers at all levels of the sport. Fully illustrated with 90 colour photographs.

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"With the approaches detailed in this book, were were able to break records on the water and on the rowing machine and face our Olympic final feeling totally prepared and genuinely excited about the challenge. Regardless of your starting point, the guidance in this book will help you take the next steps towards your own goal, and to making your own magic. Good luck!" —Dr Katherine Grainger CBE and Anna Watkins MBE

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Paul Thompson is GB Rowing Team's Chief Coach for Women and Lightweights and has coached World and Olympic champions both for his native Australia and for Great Britain. In 2007 he was the International Rowing Federation's Coach of the Year and was awarded the MBE for services to rowing in 2013. |Alex Wolf is the Head of Strength and Conditioning for the English Institute of Sport and has spent over a decade working with elite and high performance athletes in Olympic, Paralympic and professional sports, including preparing the GB Rowing team for the 2012 Olympics.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01CDHJHS8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crowood (February 29, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 29, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6882 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages

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Malcolm Middleton

By implementing the techniques in this book one could indeed become a "Complete Rower"

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017

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After reading a large number of books on rowing this in my opinion is one of, if not the best. The training plans and techniques go to extraordinary detail and in my view contain the latest training/successful techniques. I think the book caters for the international rower particularly well, and for others not in this class it provides an exceptionally useful reference and ideas for improvement.

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JB1650

Good for coaches, and oriented to high-level athletes racing 2000 meters only.

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2022

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The authors have put together a condensed (128 pages) book that gives a good level of detail on physical training for rowing. As per the author's experience at coaching at the National Team Level, the emphasis is on programs for high level athletes. If you are competing at a lower level, the book is helpful for ideas and exercises, but you'll have to construct your own program. If you are limited to a few hours on the water, this book doesn't really address your needs. It is also obviously oriented to 2000 meter racing only. I read the whole book and don't remember seeing "head racing" mentioned once. The index, which is a scant 100 entries, will not be any help.
The main question: is this worth the money? Yes, likely if you can get one good flexibility or conditioning exercise out of it that you didn't know about before. I just wish they had addressed a wider audience.

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William Woods

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2017

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Well laid out and a great mix of training research and actionable plans. The process for training adaptations and how to effect these changes is a continual focus of the book.

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Bernardette

She was very surprised and said it will be very useful and helpful

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

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This was a gift to my granddaughter, who is one of the leaders on her team. She was very surprised and said it will be very useful and helpful.

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Martha

Good for coaches

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2021

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Coach-friendly.
Not so much for regular indoor rowing athletes.
There are far better titles for an overall view of rowing as a sport, technique, equipment, training methods, etc. elsewhere.

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Peter Mancuso

Good general resource for rowing

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021

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Good reference for general reference with some details about drills and training programs.

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