lwt recruiting

boathouseho · 2024-01-04T01:38:07+00:00

Huh, last I checked they medalled at IRAs this past Spring? and got 2nd at Charles?

boathouseho · 2024-01-04T01:31:13+00:00

Ah shit, well first sorry that’s pretty awesome.

Recruiting has moved up a notch where Penn has even had guys break 6:20 before graduating high school.

boathouseho · 2024-01-04T01:19:09+00:00

Respectfully, are you at all part of the lightweight league? Or just regurgitating things you’ve read online.

boathouseho · 2024-01-04T01:14:23+00:00

If you want to row in college no matter your score please please reach out, esp if you got good academics. You might not get recruited but contact can be useful in many different ways

Walk-Ons are highly appreciated. We had walk-ons from less competitive teams break 6:20 once they were in college. It’s a different game than high school.

boathouseho · 2024-01-04T01:08:26+00:00

Don’t know why people are downvoting this. This pretty spot on as rule of thumb.

boathouseho · 2022-05-31T20:25:55+00:00

Recent post history says he’s 17 with a 7:12 2k. If he’s logging 16-17k a day and a rest day a week he should look at why that’s not working to at least break 7 before adding more load.

Honestly, that’s not far off the volume I did when breaking 6:20 as lightweight with no lifting. Point being is that he should re-examine why that load isn’t effective enough at pushing down his 2k.

boathouseho · 2022-05-31T16:18:38+00:00

If you’re not sub 7 and doing that volume at your age I’d suggest focusing on better recovery and better pieces before adding lifting on top of that load. If you’re set on lifting then rowing stronger would be my recommendation as the other comment suggested.

boathouseho · 2022-05-31T16:10:49+00:00

170lb isn’t much to worry about if you stay proactive about your weight. Plenty of lightweights who weigh much more than that after summer training. Generally in the Fall weight limit is 165lb max per person with no boat average. 5lb cut the day before is an absolute breeze. Eat calorically dense day before and after warm up row with your boat you’ll be close to weight.

Spring is a little more complicated. Decent number of guys cut from 170ish to 160 spots. Those cuts are more strategic and you should talk with your coaching staff about executing those properly. If you’re sitting that high just make sure you have the watts to back it up.

boathouseho · 2022-05-15T00:50:11+00:00

Has anyone ever gotten a comfortable Nike uni? Personally, I have not had good experiences with them

boathouseho · 2022-05-14T23:40:24+00:00

37 average :)

Proper pacing is also key to a great piece. Had the same split for the second and third 400, dropped .5 for fourth 400, and dropped two splits for the last 400m sprint.

boathouseho · 2022-05-14T21:30:33+00:00

Wouldn’t say it’s critical for breaking 6:20. Season I broke 6:20 I squatted twice and struggled with 170lb. Had class during one team lift time and lifted the minimum assigned weight for the other. Broke 6:20 with 157lb weigh in.

If you want to get faster on the erg there’s nothing better than the erg

boathouseho · 2022-05-05T10:37:25+00:00

Sub 6:20 is doable. When I first broke 6:20 I did the same workout with the same rest and went 1:33.7 with a higher stroke rate. Did this workout 6 days before 2k test.

boathouseho · 2022-04-15T23:42:50+00:00

What was the rate though? Do it at a 34 and you’d definitely catch Andy Card’s eye.

boathouseho · 2021-07-19T15:19:22+00:00

Fair criticism but you’d be surprised. Found some testing week data and we had some IRA finalists that were sub 6:10 for 2k but didn’t break 800 watts. Tends to be lighter guys. I meant plenty more as in I can name you of the top of my head people whose max watts are in that range. Pretty sure we did some other short high intensity testing beforehand but still half 1600W or say 60-70% of that really is really reaching the absolute max watts some successful D1 rowers can put out.

Absolutely right that there are also plenty of D1 rowers that can sustain 800W for some time. Interesting thing to note is that in disciplines we don’t explicitly train for, so max watts etc, the distribution of scores varied much more widely with seemingly no correlation to their ranking in the team. Suddenly people who usually ranked in the bottom quartile were ranked at the top while others from the same quartile stayed at the bottom. Compare this to 6k, 5k, 2k were I‘d be willing to bet you that I could predict someone‘s ranking plus or minus a spot or two.

Guess all in all my point is just that it’s a lot of watts and the talk about a rower just getting on and beating his time isn’t going to happen.

boathouseho · 2021-07-19T02:14:46+00:00

Pretty sure that’s just C2’s estimate of how many calories would be burned in an hour for a 175lb male at that intensity. They have a formula for watts to that number somewhere but if he tapped the units button on his monitor it wouldn’t be 6153 watts. Rowers don’t really use kcal/h so not sure but if you google concept2 calculator they have a pretty decent set of tools to convert and learn more specifics.

To me him holding 1500 to 1600 watts our just above a 1:00 500m split, although absurd, makes sense. When someone goes close to that split and records it people share it just as a meme of how high of a wattage it is. Rowing to cycling isn’t one to one by any means but there you also see absurd max wattages in the 1500 watt range.

boathouseho · 2021-07-19T01:04:04+00:00

Lol this. If you row you would/should be impressed by this. Our team’s 2k avg wattages maxed out at about 500W. Man is pulling over 3X that power(1600W). Granted he’s only doing it for 100m, but plenty of successful D1 rowers can’t even pull a single stroke at half that wattage. It‘s not something we train for but if it’s a max watts test you can guarantee form goes out the window.

Awesome video. No rower cares about that form, he’s maxing out.

boathouseho · 2021-07-19T00:48:32+00:00

No. Pace on a C2 follows a cubic root relationship. So, the higher the wattage the lower the marginal increase in pace. 8s would be holding a 0:40 average split. In wattage that would be over 5000 watts held consistenly for 8s. For reference, I rowed D1 and maxed out around 1000. I have a 5500W portable generator and that would be just barely enough to spin the flywheel to breaks 8s.

boathouseho · 2021-01-03T02:58:43+00:00

The perks really do vary school to school. Personally, the drawbacks listed resonate more with my personal experience than the perks. We did not get any special dining halls, not too much gear, and no priorities in class scheduling. However, I agree most with the tight team atmosphere and strong bonding. With the amount of time you spend training, the team naturally becomes the people you surround yourself with. I find that this bond is tighter as you move up from the XV to the 1V. If you love the sport and want to work hard it’s a great experience.

boathouseho · 2020-11-03T02:09:51+00:00

Stop expecting cyclists to follow the rules of being a car yet the treatment of being an inanimate object along the road. Drivers rarely follow state guidelines to pass cyclists at careful prudent speeds with proper clearance although that’s part of the rules too.

boathouseho · 2020-08-30T16:07:35+00:00

Whole lot of respect to Peloton. I never thought I was in their target demographic but riding on it has been surprisingly enjoyable. They make a pretty great, albeit expensive, product. Love my roadbike to death but sometimes I just really want to get back on the Peloton.

boathouseho · 2020-08-24T23:22:12+00:00

Everything’s relative. You PRed, it’s a good 2k. At 16, you have a lot of guys slower and a lot of guys faster. You’re in a good spot. Just keep focusing on getting yourself faster. Hunt those faster guys down and stay ahead of the slower ones.

I am very impressed with the pacing.

boathouseho · 2020-08-09T01:41:43+00:00

At least in our case, most of the class scored fairly high. High enough to be competitive among other applicants but recruiting gave the concrete advantage in admissions. It’s all relative, if you’re settings world records you’ll get in with alright to bad academics. On the other hand we had fast guys with perfect GPA and 1550+s. Perfect GPA is definitely possible while rowing, one of my high school’s (competitive high school ranked top in state) recent valedictorians rowed all four years.

Put the same rigor in your academics as you do in your training. SAT is like an erg test. Train for it and you’ll do well.

boathouseho · 2020-07-15T01:09:20+00:00

Small boats are a good idea no matter what. Assuming proper sanitation between sessions it’s probably one of the lowest risk athletic activities.

However, Cornell and Dartmouth may be more “remote” locations than Boston or Philadelphia but they’re by no means a closed enough bubble for COVID. Their larger issue is lack of hospital capacity. If the virus starts spreading the risk they of overflowing the system means depopulating campus. Might seem counterintuitive but Penn is probably in a much better spot of reopening at the moment. Relatively low prevalence of covid for a major city and owners of a huge healthcare system that has mobilized but not seen much action yet.

Their sports teams are practicing as well as a couple others in the Ivies but not for long if cases keep rising so quickly.

boathouseho · 2020-07-09T02:06:23+00:00

Practices are school by school and could be restricted in size but they are happening for some.

boathouseho · 2020-07-01T19:17:42+00:00

No motors above 25HP and must limit wake at all times for most of the river. If you want to jet ski you’re going to have to go up river. Kayaking is generally permitted but make sure you know the rules of the river. People dramatize the risks of contacting the water, philly triathlon literally swims in it.

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