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s past and present. Here, finally, we not only get a sense for the other athletes and for the regatta itself, but also for Nicholson...

Seth Weil had a phenomenal year. Having begun his career as a club oarsman at the University of California, Davis, under head coach Sam Sweitzer, Weil began training in the single shortly after finishing his intercollegiate career, first at his old program, then at GMS, and finally under the tutelage of Carlos Dinares. Then, following roughly a year of training at Lake Samish, an opportunity to ...

The following video is a recording of a Live  presentation for the students of the Sculling Fundamentals online course.   1. Fix your rowing stroke If there is one thing to learn from this Rowing Technique Stroke Clinic is that if you want to be in the A-boat, then there is no time to waste. […] The post Rowing Technique Stroke Clinic For Students Applying To College Rowing appeared first...

Enjoy one of my college recruiting webinars at the bottom of this post. Are you a high school rower?  Are you a parent of a high school rower? This blog post is for you.  Since I started coaching, I quickly noticed a demand in assisting parents of high school rowers.   The usual scenario has some […] The post Getting recruited to a collegiate rowing program, methods, maddness, and benefits....

re reading via RSS, you'll need to visit the blog to access this content. Which is why I decided that I was going to take control of the final act of my rowing career by organising an event in Cornwall after the Games to bring together Olympic rowing and gig rowing - big heavy wooden boats with fixed seats which row in the open sea. I persuaded 11 Team GB rowers - Helen, Heather, Melanie, Beth, Frances,...

s eight? How should I feel about all that has happened in the last eight years, the incredible highs and horrific lows? GB's women's eight finish fifth in the Olympic final at London 2012. Pic: Getty  It has taken me a while to work out what the Olympics mean to me. It will mean something different to the journalists writing about it, to the country at large, to the organising committee, and to...

re putting the final touches to our preparation for the Olympic Games. We transfer to Dorney Lake early next week with the Olympic regatta starting on Saturday morning. The heats for the women's eight are scheduled to start the day after that, which leaves us the best part of a week before battle commences. What we're trying to do out here is absolutely not to come up with a performance that will win...

m writing this from Breisach am Rhein, the venue for our training camp in Germany. Breisach is where the women and lightweights come every year for our final work camp before the World Championships or Olympic Games - and when I say 'work camp' it truly lives up to its name through a familiar cocktail of weights, ergos and rowing. We'll put in some serious volume as we build the engine to take us down...

s a tremendous honour and a big milestone to have been named in the rowing team for the 2012 Olympics, although I am still waiting to be confirmed in a boat. It's not like writing names on a team sheet and that being the end of it. Within the team there are still a number of selection decisions to make, including for my own crew, and I've been named in a squad of 10 for the women's eight and the spare...

m in the British rowing team hoping to compete in this summer's Olympic Games - and when I say "summer", it feels a very long way off right now with snow on the ground and ice on the lake. There will be plenty of updates in the weeks and months to come on how training is going, the battle for selection and the increasing excitement as we get closer and closer to an Olympic Games on home soil. However,...

Last summer we at Pausarius visited one of the last British sporting bastions  that survives the test of time – Henley Royal Regatta. What an enjoyable day! Thanks to everyone that came up to the Concept 2 stand and to everyone who received one of our free download pieces – we hope you have enjoyed the rowing to […] ...

d never even tried it. I put that right on a beautiful, still, late summer's evening in the estuary at Falmouth, which made a welcome change from the normally freezing mornings and biting winds when training with the GB squad on the Thames. The scene was only enhanced by the wooden pilot gigs, each one named and painted in bright colours, and they really are beautiful constructions compared to the...

Boosting your VO2 max for rowing on the erg is absolutely essential if you want to score big in a 2k test. Good 2k erg times depend heavily on having a good VO2 max because during a 2k erg test, you are working near your VO2 max. Sometimes even above. Imagine being able to boost […] ...

Staying hydrated is particularly important during exercise. Adequate fluid intake is essential to comfort, performance and safety. The longer and more intensely you exercise, the more important it is to drink the right kind of fluids. Dehydration Decreases Performance Studies have found that athletes who lose as little as two percent of their body weight […] ...

m not going to sit and whinge about this being the worst result for my boat - the women's quadruple scull - since so and so, or my worst result since such and such. This is not a list of statistics or a reeling off of clichés: this is a description of what it is like to lose, and how you deal with it. The times and the race reports are available elsewhere - in essence, at this World Championships in...

s pretty advanced. As long as she doesn't ever better my rowing achievements I won't mind). That inspired me to come up with an A-Z of international rowing to help people learn more about our lives and what we do. A: Anxiety. Anxiety or nerves affect everyone, irrespective of the level of competition. I got as nervous when racing the college bumps at university in Cambridge as I do for the World Championships;...

There can’t be many people into fitness and exercise who in some way shape or form haven’t joined an exercise to music class at some time. I know people who attend ‘aerobics’ a few times a week to do their grape vines and the like and have done so for years. Great – but not […] ...

t allowed to travel together, the British Olympic Association should perhaps be concerned that representatives from its three top performing sports - rowing, track cycling, and sailing - were all visiting the island of Majorca last month. Our cycling training camp in Majorca could be summed up in two words: "seriously" and "hard". We were out there for two weeks training on bikes which, as well as...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of fast- and slow-tempo music on 500-m rowing sprint performances. Twenty-two rowers performed 500-m sprints 3 times: rowing without music, rowing to slow music, and rowing to fast tempo music. Strokes per minute (SPM), time to completion, (TTC), and rated perceived exertion (RPE) were recorded. […] ...

In my last posting I gave an introduction into some of the theories related to using music to enhance rowing performance from both a historical and more current perspective. When considering the best music to listen to – things can become very subjective! Music can never be all things to all people, particularly when it […] ...