Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Water Sports - Rowing

Get a length up on the competition with cutting-edge technique, training, and racing information. Let the world's top coaches, rowers, and sport scientists steer you to ultimate success, starting with sound training and racing principles and adding increasingly advanced instruction and insights all the way to the finish.

Rowing Faster is the most comprehensive and detailed guide for achieving excellence in the sport. You'll find techniques for mastering every phase of the stroke; training strategies for increasing strength and efficiency for maximizing speed; and tapering...

Advanced Rowing brings together a selection of leading experts in the sport of rowing, including international head coaches from Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and Denmark, who have all coached crews to World and Olympic gold medals. Distinguished club and university coaches contribute from across the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Between them, these coaches work with the top national level athletes in their countries and specialize in preparing them to an international competitive standard.

In this book, coaches reveal key features that they believe...

Get ready to Row. Rowing is the new spinning. While rowing machines are soaring in popularity, nothing beats exercise on a beautiful body of water. Those who love to be outside and on the water will fall in love with this full-body workout. Pick up the sport of sculling to usher in better cardiac health, a toned body, and outdoor enjoyment. 

Although many rowers learned to scull in college or with a club, you can learn this alone. After a few outings, most people can find their rhythm. Pick up a life-long sport for better living. This short guide is for those interested in...

The history of Philadelphia's Boathouse Row is both wide and deep. Dotty Brown, an avid rower and former editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, immersed herself in boathouse archives to provide a comprehensive history of rowing in Philadelphia. She takes readers behind the scenes to recount the era when rowing was the spectator sport of its time--and the subject of Thomas Eakins' early artwork--through the heyday of the famed Kelly dynasty, and the fight for women to get the right to row. (Yes, it really was a fight, and it took generations to win.)

With more than...