Rowing Coaching

Is it all about the stroke and leg drive?

Creating great rowing performances is a complex task - it's about much more than the stroke, rate and timing of your crew. Today it's widely acknowledged, coaching and optimum performance (in any sport), is as much about the mental approach as the physical.

For individual rowers, and the crews they are a part of, to reach their full potential it's imperative their coach uses an athlete centred approach. This means putting the time into understanding what makes themselves and their athletes 'tick'.

The very best rowing coaches are those who understand and take into account their rowers’ individual personalities, their individual behaviors and motivators.

To do this, coaches are to be aware of:

• How they function as a rowing coach.
• The importance of the coach-rower relationship, the crew dynamics and how to best develop it.
• How their coaching and communication style impacts their rowers and crews.
• What they need to do to realize their potential as the best rowing coach they can be.

Using Personality Profiling changes how you coach your crews

Athlete Assessments offers two powerful profiling products specifically for sport - one for athletes, and one for coaches. These have been developed by four-time and multi-medal winning Olympic Rower Bo Hanson, and change the way you approach training your crews. One of the most powerful features of this system is being able to understand the crew dynamics before they get on the water.  Now you can take advantage of accessing what the top rowing coaches rely on.

“To be an effective coach, you need to know your athletes well - which can be difficult and it can take time. You need to find out the best way to communicate, what's most likely to work and what will get the results we all want."  - Coach Gary Lynagh, Olympian and 3-time World Champion Rower

When coaches understand the mindset of their rowers, they:

• Know with confidence what coaching styles their rowers will respond to best.
• Understand their rowers' mental strengths and weaknesses.
• Communicate to get the message across, first time.
• Learn how to 'connect' with and motivate their rowers effectively.
• Understand their rowers' needs and limitations.
• Deliberately nurture a positive, effective and strong coach-athlete relationship.
• Better manage relationships and crew dynamics.
• What this all means:  be their rowers’ best ever coach!

The article 'The Importance of Sports Profiling'  provides more information.

Be the best rowing coach you can and do it today!

If you are serious about being a better rowing coach, or helping your crews be their best, find out more about Athlete Assessments' sports profiling.  There is one specifically for coaches and one designed for athletes.

We particularly know rowing (with our founder competing in rowing at the international level for over 15 years, it helps) so contact us to find out what more we can do for you.