Competitive Rowing

Masters

The competitive Masters rowing program is offered with John Bernfield’s leadership and experience, with the goal of identifying a group of men and women who are interested in rowing well and training moderately hard.  Masters rowing is for individuals ages 27 and up.  

As an athletic trainer, rowing & sports performance coach, and rower with extensive exercise science experience, John Bernfield has a unique background that enables him to analyze rowing and break it down into its key components.  Like many coaches, he spends hours studying an athlete's successful execution, asking why and how the athletes achieved those results.  As a rower, it is not the X’s and O’s that are important but the mechanics of the body and how that relates to fast rowing.  Bernfield’s knowledge of mechanics enables him to draw from proven training techniques to efficiently train the athlete while reducing his or her chance for injury.    Contact John Bernfield

Long term goal:

          To compete successfully at the 2010 World Championship Regatta in St. Catharines, Ontario. 

Summer 2010 goals:

• Help each rower gain a greater understanding of the proper technique to make them more powerful, protect them from injury and integrate that technique into crews that are fast from point A to point B (sprints or head races).

• Improve the overall fitness of the participants including: aerobic capacity (Vo2 Max and anaerobic threshold), muscle power & endurance and if needed, improve flexibility.

• Teach participants the level of training appropriate to compete successfully against top level masters crews

• Provide opportunities to learn to race effectively against top competition.

• Above all else, provide opportunities to have fun rowing boats that are well set and responsive to rowers power application.

• Enjoy people with similar goals.

This competitive Masters Spring/Summer program will be offered over the course of 20 weeks beginning April 17 and ending September 4, 2010.