FITNESS
TRAINING SERIES
It takes a team of individuals to win
WORDS JAKE SCHUPPE T 90
o be performed effec- tively, rowing involves the participation and unified efforts of multiple ath- letes. Although it takes an entire “boat” to win a race, each boat is built from
individuals. Each individual has his or her own specific needs, strengths, weaknesses, schedules, families, etc. – you get the point. I am not talking about reinventing the wheel, only taking a note from other endur- ance sports that have progressed through these same issues and have developed proven, successful and reliable training methodologies. I like to call the current training method- ology used across many levels and abilities as the “egg carton” method. Here you have three cartons of eggs and you throw each carton against a wall. From those cartons of eggs you combine those that have survived, and here you have your varsity eight. With this approach, you may be able to find the eight most capable individuals at that point in time, but all are likely to be at varying levels of their peak personal fit- ness. So why do we see so many teams still using the same ‘one size fits all’ training? For the majority of coaches, trying to in- corporate specific training programmes for each athlete is time-consuming, and many do not have the depth of understanding in exercise.
When training a group of individuals that
comprise a team, there are several important factors that need to be considered: what is the goal of these athletes? How much time do they have to train for their event? What does their previous training look like? You must also take into account that each athlete is going to have natural strengths and weak- nesses that should play a large role in defin- ing their individual training programmes. The next question is how do you actually
know what an individual athlete’s strengths and weaknesses are? Research has come a long way in validat-
ing and verifying exactly how our physiologi- cal energy systems are used by the body
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