Rowing is all about balance, senior rowing is all about a work–life balance

• Runcorn Rowing Club is already hugely successful in several areas; we need to broaden this extremely successful and rewarding thing that is going on. To work out a personal routine where you can do the most sessions each week fitted into your own particular schedule, planning is necessary. Priorities are outlined to help you make informed choices on how to be the best you can.
• Every week, we must look to change and develop technique by taking an interest in instructions given, breaking down bad habits that may have been ingrained over years.
• How about aiming to be as healthy as possibly through adulthood, with as much interest developed for an enduring retirement; Brian Lewis rocks!

  Recreational v Competitive, and the grey area inbetween.

• Everybody is on the continuum from George and Val at one extreme, through to the “very occasional“ participant at the other. Our collective aim is this: To try to make sure that everybody around us who has a wish to be competitive to whatever degree have every opportunity to realise their potential.
• Ideally, we want to evolve a competitive group of 12 women and 12 men at the hard training end, grading through to the more recreational base of the groups. The recreational base will contain rapidly developing new entrants to the sport, and also “too busy to train much” ex-elite rowers. The difference will be the competitive groups will be aiming to excel at the North of England Head and Tideway events, and National standard regattas, wheras the recreation rowers will aim at Dee Autumn Head and Warrington

Personal Development

• Everyone needs to contribute as much as you can to be involved in the rewarding success of club success.
• Doing the best that you can in the boat can be combined with the admin, coaching, administrative, social and specialist roles.

  Training demands:

• Elite means aiming to do something physical 6+ days a week.
• Competitive means 4 – 6 sessions a week. Almost competitive is 2 – 4 sessions.
• Recreational is irregular training averaging about 2 sessions per week.
• The difficulty is that everyone will consider “hard training” to be a different thing. Then, an elite physiological athlete with rubbish technique is not elite. So, assessment of ability on ergos, and then by boat assessment is needed.

  Sessions: ranked from high value to low value

On average; some will benefit more from some sessions than others.

• 7pts 2nd row sessions (additional 1.5 hour session)
• 4pts weekend / evening summer sessions (1.5 hour)
• 4pts ergo sessions (30 mins)
• 3pts (20 minutes of) running, stretching, swimming
• 2pts (20 minutes of) walking or cycling

  By giving a points value, you could score your weekly activity, to compare year on year.