Adapting Technique – Making Technical Gains with Physical Compromises
The challenge as we get older is that our bodies are not as mobile and flexible as they once were.
What’s important for us to protect our joints? Staying injury-free is very important.
As we age, we might have injuries that come from other situations that affect our rowing; we may have degenerative changes in our joints, arthritis that comes from other injuries; and there are things that we can do to still improve our technique.
- How to protect various parts of the body
- Body posture sitting in the boat
- Identifying the correct posture at the finish exercise
- Where to make postural compromises (and where not)
- The system of body support through the stroke cycle and how to teach this to your athletes
- Using rigging to adapt to bodily compromises and create comfort
- Head rotation for steering
- Oarlock height, footstretcher adjustment (what feels comfortable), rake of footstretcher, slides
- The Active – Isolated stretching method
- 4 stretches specific for rowers
- How to test your flexibility gains
- Tips on static stretching
- Daily 15 rowing stretches (diagram and circuit)F
Most masters athletes are physically inflexible, many carry injuries or areas of compromised body movement. This does NOT stop us rowing. But it does mean we need to make compromises in order to get gains in our rowing. This episode shows how to address different types of “compromise” from stretching, improving mobility, adjusting the boat rig, getting comfortable in the boat.
The eBook includes a 45 minute YouTube link, the complete transcript of the video and two additional documents – body flexibility and boat rig or boat set-up.
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