Rowing Insights

Ideas to help you train your mind like your body.

Here you’ll find articles on sport psychology, rowing, and performance. Whether you’re an athlete, coach, or parent, these insights are designed to spark ideas you can use right away.

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Female collegiate rowers sitting in a shell docked at the water's edge after spring break rowing practice, listening to a coach crouched on the dock with a notebook. A candid moment of mental training and reflection between pieces, with trees and calm water in the background.

Spring Break Mental Training: What Most Rowers Skip

Every year around this time, I talk to rowers who are somewhere between cautiously optimistic and quietly terrified. Training has gone well enough. The erg numbers are reasonable. But racing season is close enough now that the brain starts doing things it wasn’t doing in January. The doubt gets louder.…
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