This is what has been happening:

Hello Everyone,

I hope your year has started well, despite the economic storm we are going through at the moment.

Things have been quite hectic with our family and that prevented me from writing about rowing in the last month and a half.

Here is a quick update on what is going on at our indoor rowing studio. 1. We switched all rowing machines over to WaterRowers, they are great to row. 2. I started a kids rowing class that is between 30 and 40 minutes long, every Monday at 430PM. 3. We have a new instructor, his name is Stefan and he is from Brazil. He is so well organized that he picks songs with a certain rhythm to which he adjusts the stroke rate to when he runs workouts at the Iron Oarsman. 4. We had a couple of Austrians rowers come visit us, turns out that my German coaching language needed some WD-40. In the end I got the message across no problem. 5. Reid is now pretty much sleeping through the night... Imagine 7 months of interrupted sleep, being woken up three to five times a night. Needless to say, that my outlook for life has greatly improved now that my brain is better rested.

Onto rowing and training: I have been coaching a junior rowing program in Minnesota via SKYPE. SKYPE enables me to communicate rowing ideas and training advice flawlessly with voice and video and all of it live. Seems like I do a fair bit of SKYPE coaching in colder climates, such as Yellow Knife, Northern Territory, in Canada. There the air temperature is -40 degrees.

We also created the first of its kind on the water sculling DVD with me. I hooked myself up to a wireless mic and I comment on how I row the boat and use different drills to help me control the single scull better. In addition to the on the water footage I have a session of indoor rowing in which I go bit by rowing bit through the rowing stroke explaining power application and recovery.

We are planning a new services membership program. If your fitness depends on rowing indoors we have the right stuff for you. As a member you will get to download my Iron Oarsman indoor rowing workouts. You will never get bored on the rowing machine again, you will feel as if you are rowing at the Iron Oarsman with me.

I wish you all a very good rowing continuation and I hope that all your wishes for 2009 will come true.

Sincerely,
Xeno
Xeno Muller

Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.