Don't stand on the shore ♪ I've got to go ♪ And don't waste your days.
Leave it to me. ♪ I've got to go ♪ Water will give you strength.
Get in the boat,meet Vistula trail,When you're tenOr 60 years.
(Hymn of the “Sirenka” Rowing Society in Warsaw; music and words: Agnieszka Michalczyk)
From the right bank of Vistula I observe 8 rowers. They swim gracefully, quickly, rhythmically dip oars into the water. "Beautiful sport" – I think, looking at them with a slight jealousy. The water shines in the sun, and all stroke of the oars cuts off her board. Despite dynamic movements, the boat flies quietly and does not deter even the river birds, which have sat on stones protruding from shallow water. On the stern sits a curled helm and from time to time shouts commands as the boat tilts erstwhile to the left, erstwhile to the right, and the oars float, they dip in the water again.
It didn't happen to me then that I could take a seat in the boat.
"I don't know anyone from this environment, I'm not very athletic and I wouldn't have time for training at all," I convinced myself. However, one more time on Instagram, erstwhile I got a post about free training, I gave up.
“You will learn everything in practice”
Kajak by Wisla, photograph by Anita ŻelazowskaAgainst my expectations, the first training was not theoretical at all. It was a deep jump. Well, unless it's a explanation to consider a brief instruction on how to get on a boat while at the same time doing a sit-down, holding an oar and trying not to fall into the water.
Rowing was no easier either.
The oars did what they wanted and slipped out of the sweaty hand. There were another rookies and a helmman in the boat, who were eager to convince us that rowing was the best way to live.
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Subsequent trainings rapidly showed that this athletics was not only strength, but besides precision. Without full synchronisation, the boat loses stableness and pace. Each rowing cycle consists of 4 phases: grip, push, remove the oars from the water and return to the next movement. In practice, it looks like this: first the legs push powerfully distant from the footrest, then the torso is turned on, and only at the end of the arms will the oar scope the body.
The basic motion seems simple, but in reality requires tremendous accuracy.
We inactive request to turn the oar pen so that it almost tickles the surface of the water erstwhile returning. For beginners, the top danger is the alleged catching of cancer erstwhile it fails to get the feathers out of the water in time. The paddle acts like a lever, it can rapidly break out of the rower’s hand, and even painfully hit it.
Reciprocating motor
What looks light and smooth from the shore is actually occupied by a large physical effort. Maintaining the correct form and strong legs are the foundation of rowing technique. Valery Kleshnev's research, an Olympic master and specialist in the biomechanics of rowing, showed that the legs make about 43% of the full power, the torso adds 33%, and the shoulders, amazingly few, due to the fact that only 24%.
The explanation does not always go hand in hand with practice.
For the first weeks of my oar adventure, I worked primarily with my arms, making rather decent biceps.
Rowing numbering can surprise you, too. The intuition would propose that the helm, as the “head” of the crew, sits at the front of the boat. Meanwhile, it takes place on the back of it, or stern. The numbering of rowers begins further: from the trailing 1 that sits closest to the tiller and gives the rhythm of the full settlement to the ‘one’ on the bow itself. That's where I'm sitting. For a beginner, it's a beautiful safe place, due to the fact that if he makes a method mistake, his oar won't collide with any other. And erstwhile the rate of sediment is besides rapid, the “one” can take a discreet breath. Just put the oar pen on the water and let it slide on its pane. At the same time, it is the “one” that crosses the finish line first.
Cardio and interval – water gym
Spring is approaching and the rowing period will begin any day now.
Instead of making squats and dead strings at the gym, you can accomplish akin training effects on water.
Not only does rowing immediately stimulate the cardiovascular system, it allows you to burn about 400–500 kilocalories during hourly average rowing, which corresponds to 45–50 minutes of calm running, hr of swimming or cycling. In addition, it does not burden the joints and the hazard of injury is low. It develops the strength of legs, back and arms. Since each stroke of the oars starts with a strong push of the legs, at a calm pace of the sediment (about 18–22 moves per minute) within an hr the rower performs more than a 1000 specified repetitions. It's kind of like doing over a 1000 dynamic burden squats in 1 workout.
From the position of the river Warsaw looks completely different.
All you gotta do is swim a fewer meters from the shore to cut off the city's hustle. You can see the green banks of the Vistula, the blue sky, and the chaotic beaches where fishermen fish. specified views greatly compensate fatigue in the legs.
From fan to rower
Rowing has this advantage over many spectacle sports that it does not divide people into players and passive spectators. You can watch the competition on television, and then, without large barriers, effort yourself to in 2 years, during the summertime Olympics in Los Angeles look at this athletics with a completely fresh understanding, knowing already how much work is behind all stroke of oars.
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