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Get cold hands and feet in the winter? Whether a coach or an athlete there's always a tine when you wish you had better thermo-insulation.
I contibuted the comment about the shooting mittens for sculling handle management.
Coaching Glove Recommendations discussion.
Lisa Schenkler rows for the USA as theirlightweight single sculler.
Sean Wolf interviews her for his Speed5 series.
Wolf- You have an erg book out, now I am not a big fan of the erg much less a book about working out on the erg , so why the hell an erg book and what is in it? Who made these workouts up and do you actually follow them ?
Lisa-An erg book? Why not an erg book? It's the first of its kind, and its sweatproof. What's in it? 75 erg workouts for athletes - from beginner to advanced.
These workouts are from my coaches that I had throughout the years. I kept training journals during my rowing career. The beginner, intermediate and advanced sections of the book are variations of the workouts from the national team coaches I worked with. The last section is a series of 20 of the toughest workouts my coaches gave me. They were taken straight from my journals. I call them the "ruhige Kraft workouts". Oh, and Sean, if you - or anyone - can do all 20 of the rK workouts, I'll send out a free t-shirt. Yes, I am tossing down the gauntlet. You have to tell me your favorite rK workout, though. It's all up on my web site (http://www.urbanerg.com).
I do follow the workouts in ERG. I wrote the book so I wouldn't have to think of my workouts anymore, I can just flip to a page, set the book above my foot stretchers, and do the workout. Wait, let me change that: I wrote the book so I wouldn't negotiate with myself while I sat on the erg.
Wolf-Now I feel the lightweight women's field has tailed off since the 2008 Olympics and I hear you are in pretty good shape, so do you think you can mix it up with the young talent coming up in the ranks now , I am being real here as I can be, can you earn a seat in a boat if you wanted to ?
Lisa-I'm laughing. That's a loaded question. You can't ask a competitor that. The rowers coming up now are a talented group. Being the type of competitor I am, my brain always thinks that I can mix it up, but I'm not sure the body will follow.
About earning a seat - the amount of time and energy that it takes to get a seat - not just any seat but the seat that you want - is not an easy thing to do. If it was easy, everyone who wanted to, could be on the team. It takes an amazing amount of dedication and training to get a seat in a boat.
Wolf– Crash B's is around the corner and you are known for your "presence" on the ERG ( as well as the water ) , do you still hold the world record "on the machine " and what numbers are you dropping these days?
Lisa-Sean, at the time that you wrote these questions to me, I held "the" world record as the fastest lightweight woman, but as of Saturday, January 30th, Ursula Grobler James smashed that record by two seconds. Kudos to Ursula - an amazing performance. I still hold a couple world records though, just not "the" world record.
Ahh, what numbers am I dropping these days? Depends on the piece - come do a workout with me and we'll see.
Wolf– You were in the 04 Olympics and still went strong afterwards , what was that whole process like , did you prefer rowing in camps or were you more of a fan of running the gamut of trials ? The reason I ask this is that there are a lot of young ladies out there who dream of being in your shoes and I feel any insight you have would be helpful and welcome.
Lisa-In my career I had the opportunity to be on ten national teams, and had the chance to do both the camps and the trials gamut. Living in San Diego at the Olympic Training Center and in Princeton, there were huge benefits to training in the camp system, especially when the lightweights and open weights would all battle it out together. That type of daily competition certainly assisted with preparation - how to race, when to race - and being in the supportive team environment is powerful. The lightweight women's boats are all trials boats so even if you came from a camp system you had to go to trials. I actually enjoyed this process. When I was racing in the single, you have the heat, semi and final race, with the finals being the best two out of three, so you'd be racing four times. The trials process always made me feel that I had earned my seat by winning on the water. No matter what, it all came down to who was fastest on the water on that given day.
What I found is that if you could move a single, the coaches were going to look at you. They always look at who can move a single and who is fast on the erg. And not just against lightweights, but against everyone. That's where it worked for me. I was a smaller athlete, but I had a "big dog" attitude. I always wanted to mix it up.
Wolf- I know you have a loyal following , fill us in what are you up to now (and I don't mean weight HA!) ?
Lisa-Well, I'm at FISA weight right now, so that's good. My workouts are daily forest runs with my pup, and erg workouts from my book. I do a lot of private coaching and training and am an executive director of a rowing club. Like most rowers, I am waiting for nice weather to get back on the water. In the meantime, I get on an erg to remember what it feels like.
Extra one
Wolf-Which races in your career were you favorite ones erg, breaking the 7 min barrier , and water , was it the Olympics ? What made them special ?
Lisa-Two of my favorite races were on the erg. The first was the piece where I broke the seven minute barrier. That was eleven years ago. The second race was about six months later - pulling a 6:56.7 at CRASH-Bs. That was back in the days when we had to walk uphill for three miles in waist-deep snow to get to the heats to qualify for the finals at CRASH-Bs. I pulled a 7:12 in the morning and then did the finals race in the afternoon. Those were fun races. That's what makes them my favorites. They were just pure fun.
The Olympics - I came about being in the 2004 Olympic lightweight double in a round-about way. The culmination of all the years put in, some luck and being in the right place at the right time… to sit at the start line at the Olympics - that event is particularly special.
I don't have any gold medals (I do have three silvers), but each time, each race - rising to the occasion, going as fast as I possibly could and having no regrets, that was special. That doesn't mean I always crossed the finish line first.
Re: Ursula's new world record:
Wolf-It looks like Ursula Grobler broke the world record by a few seconds , how does that sit with you as the competitor I know you are?
Lisa-Impressive! Congratulations goes to Ursula. She not only beat the old record, she smashed it by 2 seconds. How fitting to have the record broken with a commanding performance. I have waited for 10 years for a lightweight woman to take the record as her own. The culmination of Ursula's power, speed, fitness and will made that record hers. She is now the fastest lightweight in the world.
When I read your email, I simply smiled. A smile created through respect of a performance. She is the real deal.
Sean,
Thank you for the opportunity for the interview with Rowing Illustrated.
Cheers,
Lisa
Thank you Lisa
- Wolf
Thanks to the web team at Janousek who have put up their online shop including a link to our shop for anyone wanting spares for wiring looms, speakers and other Coxmate products.
The Aero scullsthat were at the Caversham lake being tested by GB Rowing are now back in circulation for clubs to try out.
We have two pairs ready to send to anyone who wants them for a fortnight.
A word of warning:
We have had rave reviews from the Teign Scullers double who are using a set and did well in recent head races. They say that they handle really well in rough water and in a headwind there's a real speed increase.
Get in touch if you are keen.
Finally we draw to a close with the final two chapters on Running the Course and After the Event is over, an after word and a list of skills drills and exercises.
We get to the end of chapter 3 with sections on Publicity and promotion, the training plan for the course and foul-weather alternative training plans.
Mark Earnshaw coach to the GB mens 4x and 2x Bronze medallists from the last Olympiad has been picked by UK Sport for an accelerated learning programme for 'domestic coaching excellence'.
The ARA announced it this week.
The two year accelerated Apprenticeship Programme will build on the knowledge and experience gained to create a bespoke development pathway towards coaching excellence for each participant, based on the needs of each coach and their sport.
Tim Foster and Nick Strange were in the first intake of the earlier Elite Coach programme - Nick still coached U23s in the GB System but Tim is head coach of Switzerland - and so lost to the UK, hopefully temporarily.
The 12 Apprentices will benefit from ‘on the job’ training by working alongside a ‘Master Coach’ from within their sport while also having access to a Mentor. This will be complimented by a workshop programme, delivered by experts in coaching, non-technical coaching skills, sport science and sports medicine.
Rowperfect salutes the addition of mentoring to the programme, because that can be a great way to help put theory into practical training. You might want to consider adding this to your club coaching programme.
But the mentor must be a fabulous teacher in their own right and with the right balance of vision and humility such that they can step back and let the trainee make mistakes and deliver programmes in their own manner. The trust of the senior coach to let the trainee into their personal knowledge-store of experience is vital. Feeling unthreatened by the advances of a younger coach is also important otherwise the senior coach will stop or slow their participation and gift of knowledge.
Mark Earnshaw's Master Coach Mentor, Jurgen Grobler, is yet to be confirmed in this role.
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The Dreher Aero sculls are proving their worth with a couple of new developments
Veteran athletes racing in the Head of the Plym at the weekend in a double scull were the third fastest overall time of the whole event beating larger boats. The increase in speed was put down to the Aero sculls that the crew has been testing.
Further, we have had news from Durham Boat who make Dreher sculls. This was written to Paul Thompson, Ade Roberts and Rosie Mayglothling of the British Rowing team who are also testing the Dreher Aeros for their athletes
We have done quite a lot of [Aero scull] testing with US and German National Team athletes.
The test was an efficiency test and we rowed 200m meters on wind protected water, only 30m wide and 500m long stretch. All tests were done in single sculls at a speed of 3.5m/s and at Stroke Rate of 36. Speed was recorded with both, GPS and SpeedCoach and the boat was up to full speed once at the 0m start line.
We measured the power that needed to be applied to the oarlock to maintain the speed using an oarlock mounted force measurement system.
So far we have done 237 test rows and we do see a clear tendency of the Aero scull to being more efficient, using about 1.5 to 2.5% less power for the same boat speed of 3.5m/s.
We are trying to collect more data. Of course there were some athletes whose data stood out. For example Manuela Lutze, German sculler, four time Olympian. Her rows showed improvements in speed of up to 4%, consistently in all 10 pieces she did after having just one 6k practice to get used to the sculls.
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This part deals with the sections on Different ways to teach beginners, Other facilities you'll need, People you'll need, Safety and Child protection.
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