Fitness Training for Rowing
			Tim Millea's guide to efficient land training for rowers and their clubs
		Rowing is quite unlike any physical activity found in 'everyday life'. The problems of poor fitness training regimes that exist in many sports become more acute in rowing - the normal diet of jogging and ad-hoc circuit training is unlikely to achieve much. This site sets out suggestions for efficient fitness training for rowers, and would-be rowers, of any level. Its aim is to empower you, the rower to take responsibility for the training of your own body, and for you to obtain maximum fitness benefits for whatever effort, large or small, you are prepared to put in. Color

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Contents

• Educating the Club
  • The Ad-Hoc Club
  • Adverse Selection
  • True Motivation
• Exercise Physiology
  • First Principles
  • Recovery
  • Specificity
  • Cardiovascular Training
  • Strength and Endurance Training
  • Training Effects
  • Genetic Limitations
• Training Regimes
  • Ergo Training
  • Callisthenics
  • Weight training
  • 'Endurance' Training
  • Motivation System
  • Summary

Resources

• Ergo Performance Analysis (including on-water performance prediction)
• Example Fitness Training Log (mine!)
• Favourite Rowing Links

Email: tim@rowing.millea.com.

Copyright 1997-2000, Tim Millea, MSI Research Institute, Loughborough University, England.