Rowing Faster 2nd Edition By Volker Nolte

Get a length up on the competition with cutting-edge technique, training, and racing information. Let the world’s top coaches, rowers, and sport scientists steer you to ultimate success, starting with sound training and racing principles and adding increasingly advanced instruction and insights all the way to the finish.

Rowing Faster is the most comprehensive and detailed guide for achieving excellence in the sport. You’ll find techniques for mastering every phase of the stroke; training strategies for increasing strength and efficiency for maximizing speed; and tapering plans for peak performance at the highest levels of competition.

With contributions from Olympic medalists and rowing experts from around the globe, Rowing Faster also includes the latest research on adaptive rowing, advice on managing a team, detailed plans for the long-term development of rowers, insights on training and competition for female rowers, and a look at the future of the sport from the general secretary of the FISA.

From the technical details of equipment and training to classifications of boats and rowers, Rowing Faster has it all. Offering a truly global perspective and authoritative coverage of the sport, it is the one guide that every serious rower and coach should own.


Contents

Part I: The Philosophy of Rowing
Chapter 1. Winning at All Costs: A Historical Perspective
Chapter 2. Developing a Coaching Philosophy

Part II: Long-Term Athlete Development
Chapter 3. How Rowers Learn
Chapter 4. Ten Factors Influencing Athlete Development
Chapter 5. Planning for the Long Term

Part III: Rowing Science
Chapter 6. Rowing Physiology
Chapter 7. Monitoring and Managing Your Training
Chapter 8. Loads on the Bodies of Rowers
Chapter 9. Biomechanics of Rowing
Chapter 10. Using Equipment More Efficiently

Part IV: Training in Rowing
Chapter 11. The Mental Side of Rowing
Chapter 12. Training for Strength
Chapter 13. Effortless Rowing
Chapter 14. Improving Performance With Nutrition
Chapter 15. Special Considerations for Adaptive Rowing
Chapter 16. Women in Rowing
Chapter 17. Managing a Team

Part V: Racing
Chapter 18. Selecting Athletes and Crews
Chapter 19. Tapering for Races
Chapter 20. Learning From Racing

Part VI: Future of Rowing
Chapter 21. Predicting the Future of Rowing
Chapter 22. Shaping the Sport of Rowing

Released 2011
336 Pages


About The Author

Volker Nolte is director of the rowing program and assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches coaching and biomechanics. Since 1993, he has led his men's rowing team to 10 Ontario University Athletics Championships and three Canadian University Championships. In 2008, his university crew won the German University Championships and the Temple Challenge Cup at the famous Henley Royal Regatta in England. He was the lightweight men’s national team coach with the German Rowing Association from 1984 to 1990 and with Rowing Canada from 1992 to 2000. His national team crews won an Olympic silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, two world championship titles in 1993 and 2000, and several medals at recent world championships.