Rowing is very much about rhythm and
timing.
And that goes from single scull right through to an eight
That is the key because you're trying
to put as much power as you can through the stroke
but then on the way forward you need that time to recover, relax
and try to get as much of
your energy back before you do the next stroke
Obviously at 34 strokes a minute that's pretty hard.
Imagine you've got let's say eight people
in an eight.
If out of those eight people one of them is moving out of time
even if they change
direction a tenth of a second late,
That doesn't sound much but that doubles the weight of the boat for that split second
So it's actually critical that they are completely
and technically blended and working in harmony and synchronicity
about 60% of power comes from Alex and
so they're real engine the body produces
about 30 percent of the power once the
league's nearing the end of a structure
in the body comes on and and continue
their structure in the arms provide
about 10 percent of the power you know
if you compare us to most athletes Alex
would be as strong as as a white left a
lot of strength training during training
a leg the perception publicly is that
it's because I guess is that people that
running on little boats in like what you
read in our sport is definitely legs
legs and back
the most important thing for me
when we line up on the start line the
sex goddess physically very
evenly-matched we've all done very
similar trying to tell the winner of
that race comes down to host and
mentally office when you race it
physically this is what it is
off the start everybody feels fresh
anticipation full of adrenaline
into the rice then the plane starts to
really kick and you feel like you're not
going to be able to continue for too
much longer
very quickly you get this massive need
continue breathing hard and you get a
real build-up black mussels which row
hard to pull it much
system
after about three minutes into the
rights you you can't write your love and
and then you you seem to find a little
bit of a second windows as as we call it
the breathing hard trying to get the air
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into your muscles muscles working but
essentially you're fighting a losing
battle does the further down the track
the worst is yet to get more painful you
breathing hard and you just simply can't
keep up with the physical out
the third five hundred about rice that's
probably the hottest spot is still a
long way to go but
that's the place that I tried to attack
people it's hurting people from us and
in the last five hundred
just about putting your body to the
limit
if you do it properly you you finish the
lawn and and that's the last truck you
can take
you have been credibly gotta get a lot
of oxygen
a lot of muscle
so you get after a race for instance it
can take days or even
even
a week to get full recovery because it
just to plead to physically so much
