My top tips for recovery after training or racing

Team Sky (INEOS) cool down at Tour de France 2018

Training is important, but what you do with the rest of your time in the week, can make a big difference in how you respond and improve from your training. There are lots products and methods purported to enhance recovery, and the following is what I do. You don’t necessarily need to incorporate every one…

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Training Update

Week 27 – 9-weeks to target race What was a recovery week turned into a recovery and repair week, as I’ve been dealing with a few niggling issues. This is why recovery weeks are so important. Important to let the body recover from the progressive load, in order to recover, get stronger, and lose some…

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Biorower special – Interview with Aram Lemmerer

Excited to release the second part of my interview with Aram Lemmerer! In this episode, Aram shares with us everything you need to know about the Biorower, along with some interesting insights into how they came up with the concept, and what question, the Biorower team were looking to answer. Click on the following link…

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What I’m experimenting with this week

Extra sleep Natural anti inflammatories Nelo R75 single scull Extra Sleep As the training volume increases, I’m experimenting with a ways to enhance my recovery. I’m increasing my daily sleep by getting to bed 15-minutes earlier, not using my iPhone an hour before shut eye, and leaving my iPhone in the home office rather than…

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Sharing my road to the 2020 Swiss Championships

Hi there, Really excited that the Swiss Rowing Championships will now be held on 18, 19 & 20 September 2020. This gives me 11-weeks until my first race of the year. I will capture and share with you, my plan, my approach, my training and the experiences along the way. Let me know if there…

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My comeback from a catastrophic accident

Catastrophic; causing sudden and very great harm or destruction. (Cambridge dictionary 2020) In June 2013, I was paddling lightly to cool down, after racing the single scull (1x) in a Swiss regatta, when a men’s coxless four (4-) doing racing starts, collided head on into my back at full speed. The boat went through my…

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