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Category Archives: Psychology
Guest Post: How to Improve Your Rowing By Improving the Way You THINK!
A guest post by Jacqueline Pigdon – read her 7 tips to prepare for single sculling starts. Our rowing results depend on a variety of factors such as our strength, fitness, skills, ability, our training programme and coach just to …
Posted in Best Practice, Psychology, Rowing, Sculling, Technique, Training
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Getting to the next level in rowing: Nicola Coles interview part 1
Within your sporting career there are big stepping stones where you have to jump up in quality to get the next grade. Rowperfect asked Nicola Coles an Olympian and former World Champion in the womens pair how she faced and …
Empowering women through rowing
The American dream of achievement for all is a compelling vision. Using rowing as part of a programme to help disadvantaged young women becomes an inspiring story. Here’s a great video about a group of disadvantaged schoolgirls in New York …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Psychology
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Your rowing season review – how did you do?
Here are 7 key questions for you to diagnose yourself and your rowing. Most people lose sight of their goals. Every year at the end of the season I look back over the year and see what I did well …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Competition, Psychology, Racing, Rowing, Rowing theory, Sculling, Testing and selection
Tagged carlos dinares, rowing
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Greg Searle on rowing and business
Rowing and business go together frequently as top students often row and go on to successful careers in the City. Greg Searle has been at the top of rowing since he was 19 and won an Olympic gold medal – …
Posted in Best Practice, Competition, Interview, Olympics, Psychology, Racing
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Are champions born or made?
What does it take to become world-beating – or just very good at sport? This great book by British and Commonwealth table tennis champion, Matthew Syed takes personal experience and sports science to unravel the answers – and they aren’t …
Posted in Best Practice, Club Management, Coaching, Psychology, Racing, Training
Tagged Matthew Syed
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Book Review: The Mind’s Eye – rowing psychology
thx for all inspirational text you send me in e-form! In this issue of Roeien the Dutch rowing magazine (March 2011) the review of Jimmy Joy’s book, The Mind’s Eye is published. It’s of course in Dutch but the author …
Posted in Best Practice, Coaching, Juniors, Masters, Psychology, Racing, Rowing, Sculling, Technique, Training
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How to Identify your Optimal Mental State
The few minutes from when a crew hears the gun till the end of the race often seem to be the toughest. What can you do to ensure your preparation has been perfect? You should have completed extensive physical training …
Posted in Best Practice, Psychology, Racing, Technique
Tagged mental race, rowing race, visualisation
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What Makes the Great Ones Great? Part 1: Confidence
How can we define confidence? What separates it from arrogance? Where are the lines blurred between positive and negative personality traits? Arrogance, or cockiness, in an athlete and in the sporting world more generally, is most often viewed as a …
Posted in Competition, Psychology
Tagged Adam Kreek, athlete confidence, Floyd Landis, Muhammad Ali, Steve Prefontaine, Steve Redgrave, Ted Nash
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Book Review: The Mind’s Eye – by Jimmy Joy
The Mind’s Eye – by Jimmy Joy The evolution of the Athletes’ Skills and Consciousness A fascinating book which may be considered a significant tool to assist both coaches and athletes. It is not only scullers who could benefit from …
Posted in Coaching, Psychology, Technique, Training, Users Views
Tagged rowing, Rowperfect
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