rowing

leedsmeister · Post by **leedsmeister** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:58 am

hey guys, i'm a rower and train on machines and with free weights every day and have races every two weeks. I have a big race coming up in three weeks and need to know how long i should rest for before a race as i wanna be fully fit but not out of practice. any tips on this and possibly some good strength training techniques which might help me. cheers

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:49 pm

i would probably taper off the last 2 weeks and stop all training 3 - 4 days before with a a carb up phase from then on...without knowing the length of your races (and not having rowed ever...well hardly) it too hard to give you some strength techniques and it's probably too late to incoprorate them now anyway but fot the next race we can use some if a bit more info is given

leedsmeister · Post by **leedsmeister** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:40 pm

i'm rowing the U-21 2000m race then U-23 2500m then the senior 4000m. All one after another. Its gonna be hell!

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:31 pm

go to t-nation.com and there's an article on nutrition on the front page by Jon Berardi you should definately read fot your contest day