Training and competing in indoor rowing is a widely unknown to high school students as a mean to make themselves noticed to a university admissions office. The beauty is that there is no need to know how to row on the water to become a rowing recruit for a university crew.
To this day, mainly club junior rowers know of the importance of indoor rowing as a means to get on the “A” list of university crew coaches. Yet, anyone can try. Since implementation of Title IX, women’s university rowing has seen huge growth among schools with large football programs. This leads to more athletic scholarship and university crew coaches looking beyond the regular water-rowing crowd. Crew coaches are searching for human horsepower that can easily be measured on rowing machines. Athletes in sports such as: Volleyball, basketball, water polo, cross country running, football, soccer, are perfect candidates to tackle indoor rowing. There are students on high school campuses; who do not even know that they are IVY League rowing material. These individuals are usually tall and gangly, maybe a little overweight, not so coordinated, and certainly not in the above-mentioned sports.
Indoor rowing is perfect for cross training and making varsity athletes perform better in their sport. Indoor rowing is an ultra low impact exercise which can help rehabilitate chronic injuries, such as rotator cuff problems from swimming, knee injuries from water polo, chin splints from too much running, and the list could go on for a while.
Xeno Muller
Olympic gold and silver medal winner men’s single scull rowing.
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Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
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