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Rest Day 8/16: What do you do during a thunderstorm if you can’t row on the water?

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Rest Day 8/16:

What do you do during a thunderstorm if you can’t row on the water?

Yesterday morning there was a large thunderstorm at Community Rowing in Boston.  Most of the morning practices had already finished up, but there were a few programs that got kicked off the water due to lightning.  This a frequent occurrence that rowers have to deal with.

If you’re not a rower yet, but just an athlete using the erg, I’m sure you have your own thunderstorms to deal with in terms of training.  Maybe a knee or shoulder has decided to flare up or your quads are burned up from a few intense WODs.  That doesn’t mean everything has to be thrown out the window and you call it a day.

At the boathouse I had some fun with the Renegade Athletes and introduced bear crawls into the workout.  While most rowers that got kicked off the water had to resort to the drudgery of a steady state erg, we had some fun crawling around them.  In the past I’ve used those days as opportunities to play dodgeball and do squats or push ups if you get hit.  If your regular mode of training isn’t available then have some fun, do something different, and challenge yourself.

On the other side of things, if you’re an athlete who needs work on the erg and your body is banged up, take some time to do a few drills and dial in that technique with slow motion rowing.  Try rowing with no pressure and then slowly building up the speed keeping the proper sequence and form.  Or just take the day to work on a couple of goats while you wait for your issues/thunderstorms to pass by.

Share your favorite thunderstorm activities!

Continual Learning – DC 5/24

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Learning

Learning is a life long endeavor and is the essence of life itself.  With proper learning comes a sense of well-being and happiness.  Learning feeds into our preparation and improves our performance.  Plato believed that knowledge is already within us and learning is the process of uncovering it through recollection.  Recollection occurs through searching and questioning.  Why did that performance stink, or why was it so great?  What worked in our preparation and what didn’t?  We must be brave enough to challenge our long-held beliefs and keep open minds so that we can improve our preparation and performance.

Plato

Plato stated, “For true opinions, as long as they remain, are a fine thing and all they do is good, but they are not willing to remain long, and they escape from a man’s mind, so that they are not worth much until one ties them down by (giving) an account of the reason why.”  Our learning will focus on tying down our personal experiences and figuring out what works for us as a team and individuals.  The tools we’ll use include journaling and self-evaluation.

Daily Challenge 5/24:

Learn from a performance!  

It can be at home, work, in the gym, or on the water.  Figure out what worked and why.  Use the following tool to help you out!  Share your thoughts on Learning!