Our first Faster Masters Medalist
Gordon Williams is our very first medalist training on the Faster Masters programme. He won Mens F 1x at Lake Ruataniwha in New Zealand’s South Island during September, beating a long-time winner into second place just before the line. How the race went Truth be told I rowed like a lumberjack for the last 15-20 […]
Week 2: Rowing the Long Game
The Head of the Charles is 26 days away as I sit and write. Less than four weeks. Somehow I found time to create a past history spreadsheet for my event. I used the last five years’ results to calculate the average winning time, the average top 5 finishers time, plus their corresponding benchmarks at […]
Backstory to Faster Masters
You may be wondering what is Faster Masters? Let me answer by telling you a story. Grab a comfy seat and a drink because this will take you 5 minutes to read. Rebecca and Marlene are your coaches were both competitive younger rowers and (eventually) reached the end of their careers and wondered what to […]
Six Weeks to Get This Master Faster
Faster Masters is following one athlete’s progress towards the Head of the Charles 2019. Casey McKenna is a 35 year old single sculler, a mom fo a 2 year old. She trains alone since her job relocted to Kentucky and she was massivly excited when she got her entry into the HOCR this year – […]
Do your programs suit Australia?
We got this question from a customer Hi there, I noticed your programs are geared on a monthly basis to a particular rowing season. I’m based in NSW, Australia so can I access the appropriate programs to correspond to my rowing season? Currently we are just starting our regatta season having done some slow long […]
Blade Depth in Rowing
Marlene and Rebecca talk about blade depth in rowing and sculling, and how to pick races that suit your crew’s needs in the September Faster Masters Rowing Radio podcast. Blade depth and boat speed Rowing oars are designed to sit at the correct depth in the water – check it out when you sit stationary […]
Individual program testimonials from August 2019
Don’t believe us – listen to our Faster Masters members to tell you how using our programs helps their rowing. Persephone Wynn is 63 and coming back to rowing after some health issues My boat is a 20 yr old very tippy Fillipi – mostly tippy because I have little or no feeling in my […]
How to video your crew effectively
Marlene and Rebecca discuss race day eating tips, how to video your crew effectively for coaching analysis. Active recovery paddling, eating and hydration and the Go Pro mount kit from Oar Inspired. Timestamps to the show 0:01 Race day eating tips 11:00 Race day finishing sprints 19:30 Rowing video analysis how to do it; what […]
Questions about Crew Membership answered
I am writing to ask a few questions about the “Faster Masters Program”. My partner and I have been rowing a pair and double for a couple of seasons here. We belong to a small masters club, however, we have no coach. We have picked up some coaching during the past two seasons but it […]
Get Your Stroke Rate Up!
Tips for training and rowing in the heat and how to transition to racing at high stroke rates Faster Masters Rowing Radio July 2019 is hosted by Marlene Royle and Rebecca Caroe. They write monthly training programs for masters rowers at www.fastermastersrowing.com 0:00 Introduction and summary of what’s in the July Faster Masters training program […]