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Volker Nolte

Volker Nolte, an internationally recognized expert on the biomechanics of rowing, is the author of Rowing Science, Rowing Faster, and Masters Rowing. He's a retired professor of biomechanics at the University of Western Ontario, where he coached the men's rowing team to three Canadian national titles.
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Newer Is Not Necessarily Better

While innovations in equipment can make a boat go faster, often the best way to increase speed is to improve training and use your existing equipment correctly.
Advice

Training for that Pinnacle Regatta

The ultimate race is the benchmark toward which the team must work, and coaches can calculate accurately the kind of performance required, on and off the water, to achieve it.
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Making Erg Training Count

Rowing on an erg is excellent preparation for rowing on the water, but people tend to do it on cruise control. When done incorrectly, erg training may do more harm than good.
Coaches

The Case for High Training Volume

Studies show that the endurance of rowers increases with training volume and that rowers improve their performance when they train at mid-range intensity.
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Training During the Holidays

The goal is not to improve fitness but to preserve as much conditioning as possible through exercise that’s primarily fun.
Advice

The Pause That Refreshes

There are good reasons to leave the boats alone for a while, but that doesn’t mean abandoning exercise and physical activity.
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Getting Ahead at Head Races

Head races require a different level of physical exertion and fatigue tolerance over a longer period of time. The ideal is to find your flow—a level of exertion that feels fast but easy.
Advice

The Principles of Periodization

Progressive increases in training demands should be followed by periods of lower training loads to enable an athlete’s body to adapt and to improve performance.
Training

Training Through Transition Time

For coaches, it’s about the right progression of intensity and duration and motivating to achieve success. For rowers, it’s about pursuing athletic ambitions with renewed vigor.
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Telling That Negative Inner Voice to Shut Up

Break down the race into segments rather than focusing on the final result. A good start is the best way to get going, and then tactical goals can be tackled one by one.
Training

The Power Plants of Your Muscles

Mitochondria convert food and oxygen into energy. The more mitochondria in your muscle cells, the more mechanical energy they can produce and the faster you can row.
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Mastering the Erg Test

Erg tests cause more anxiety in athletes usually than a hard training session or even a race on the water, although they’re actually not that different.
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Lessons From the Paris Olympics

All the successful Olympic rowers showed the typical U-shaped race profile—a fast first and fourth 500 meters and slower and constant speed in the middle 1,000 meters.
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Sport Science: Fin Tuning

Smaller skegs or fins don’t always make a rowing boat faster.
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