Survey: How is your Training Going?
September 12, 2011
What’s the biggest challenge or frustration you’re having with exercising or training right now?
Please feel free to post comments! Your insight is much appreciated!!
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My greatest frustration is wanting to get it all in.
Balancing on the water training/erging; covering all systems and getting the time in the gym for weight training. I need to retire so I can train
Lisa,
Thanks for your thoughts. It is a challenge to get it all in….
In Appreciation,
Bob
We don’t have set boats yet, so developing six different rowing styles to match with six different 2- partners. C’est la vie!
I have been handling a rib injury and it has been frustrating dealing with flare-ups, feeling the fire to train harder with spring racing approaching. Training has been going really well but it has frustrating to not have trainers who know how to strengthen my rib area so it won’t happen again. In some ways I feel I am spinning my wheels.
Yes, rib injuries can be a big challenge to handle for rowers especially when being treated just as stress fracture, meaning rest, time away from rowing for 4-6 weeks, and then slowly return to rowing. The usual outcome is a future rib fracture as the source of the problem was never identified. A rib fracture is what I call a “frame” injury, and is a clear sign of strength and/or flexibility issues that can come from multiple areas. Without doing a full Body Balance Evaluation it is very difficult to really identify the true source of the problem. Having evaluated more than 800 rowers, at all levels, I have come to find that those with chronic injuries and/or frame injuries are usually from 5 to 8 deficit areas in the athlete. Targeting just around the shoulder and scapula is just not enough to correct the problem, as it is rarely a singular deficit that creates the fracture.