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Backsplash Rowing...Updated January 23, 2001
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Workout Terms: S.S. stands for Steady State. This is done at a low stroke rate, generally 18-20 strokes per minute; sometimes as high as 22 spm, but never above 24 spm. Level 1 S.S. means that you are rowing just about as hard as you can for the length of the workout. Level 2 S.S. means you don't have to pull quite as hard, but you are still working. Weights days we do work on all areas: legs, arms, chest, abs etc.. Usually sets of 10 unless otherwise specified.

For ideas about drills, or other comments questions or ideas, send email to ecmiller@hotmail.com
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!!!WORLD CHAMPS!!!

I was bow seat of the lightweight eight (USA LM8+) which won the Gold medal in the World Rowing Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. We raced the final on August 6, 2000, and established a commanding lead with a big move at 750m in, and another with 750m to go.
We are the 2000 World Rowing Champions!!!
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I am sitting bow seat. My boatmates are: Dave Mack (2), John Cashman (3), Gabe Winkler (4), Bill Fedyna (5), Martin Schwartz (6), Angus Maclaurin (7), Steve Warner (st), Josh Fien-Helfman (cox).

DAILY WORKOUTS: (scroll below Disclaimer)

DISCLAIMER: This is a journal of MY personal workouts. (Not an official mouthpiece of USRowing, Mike Teti or the Princeton Training Center.) It is intended to be a loose guide for training. Due to "scheduling" conflicts, current workouts will not available. I may put up workouts at the conclusion of each month. Please refer to the same workouts from a year ago in the meantime.

As always, if you have any questions about rowing, drills or about other matters my address is ecmiller@hotmail.com

It is pretty quite in Princeton now. Most rowers are not back from the Olympics, and many will not return. It is a time when many people are making decisions, and others are taking breaks from rowing, letting their bodies rest and heal I taaok time off after Worlds, and am now training again for the head race season. After the Schuylkill, I'll be moving home to Seattle. I'll probably return to Princeton in a couple of years..

DRILLS: We mainly do three basic drills. To work on catches we do a gunwhale (gunnel) pause. We pause at bodies over, handles touching the gunwhale. The object of this drill is to bring the blade down directly to the water without hesitation or hanging. This is a difficualt drill, especially in the pair. The drill helps the catches because when your hands are on the gunnel, the blades are as high as they can go, so there is nowhere to go but straight down to the water. The next drill we do a lot of is legs only. This is just what it sounds like. Make sure that everybody is going together and initiating with the legs, not the arms or body. Other drills include occasional 1/2 slide, and pausing at the finish. We also do a "rusty roll-up" drill, where everybody pauses at body over, then returns to the finish and pauses there before taking a complete stroke. For questions, email me.