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Introduction
We've tried to simplify your search for rowing products, whether it be for books, DVDs, rowing apparel, and other items.
We've also added links to a few selected items below (our "Best Bets"). If you pause your mouse over the link, on some you will see an image appear with the price, book cover, and availability (unfortunately, this doesn't work with all of the books).
The Slim Book of Rowing by Barrie Robinson
The Slim Book of Rowing is a 75 page book for beginners and a good refresher for old hands. It includes coaching and describes some excellent exercises. It is definately something you should take with you to read before an outing!
College Rowing Scholarships
This book is written by rowers and their parents who have actually been awarded college rowing scholarships! This book tells how to get noticed by college rowing coaches, how to guide you through the NCAA recruiting process, and what the coaches can't (or won't) tell you.
Skillful Rowing by Edward McNeely.
A comprehensive look at rowing training and technique,including illustrations and photos. Includes detailed descriptions of the strokes and drills, allow chapters on strength training, aerobic conditioning, program planning, and rigging will help rowers improve their performance in the most efficient way.
The Book Of Rowing by David C. Churbuck.
This book has become a classic, explaining the sport and its history in a manner which is helpful to both the novice and the advanced rower -this book has received great reviews.
Water's Edge: Women Who Push the Limits in Rowing....
by Lewis.
Each chapter focuses on a woman or group of women who have accomplished incredible feats on the water, including seven women who paddled canoes up the Back River to the Arctic Ocean; the eU.S. women's eight that won a gold medal in rowing in the 1984 Olympics; the 83-year-old `matriarch' of rowing who still competes; the first woman to paddle a canoe around the Baja Peninsula; and a hard-driving member of Martha's Moms, a group of competitive middle-aged women rowers in Seattle whose insignia is an apple pie and crossed oars. This book illustrates the importance of sports and how identifying, training for and achieving a goal permeates the athlete's entire life with self-confidence.
High Performance Rowing by John McArthur.
In addition to explaining the detials of rigging, physiology, technique, and training, the author explains the "why" and the "how" behind rigging and physiology. It will inspire and inform the beginner as well as the elite athlete.
Textbook of Oarsmanship : A Classic of Rowing Technical Literature by Gilbert C. Bourne.
This book is considered "the classic of classics" for the rowing world. It identifies the key component of rowing: theory, art, equipment, coaching, and muscular action. It also recognises the scientific undergirding of the sport, the ballet or ideal movement patterns, the mechanics and tools used by the athlete, the importance of a skilled mentor, and the recognition of the internal mechanics of the athlete's body. A "must read" for every rower.
The Complete Sculler by Burnell.
An excellent primer for the new athlete, it also points the experienced athlete and coach towards a thorough and holistic approach in the preparation of the "complete sculler". The author, an Olympic Gold Medallist, provides the sculler with sound advice to "look inward" when things go wrong in the boat.
The Art of Sculling by Joe Paduda.
This book provides both novice and experienced scullers with a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the equipment, techniques, and physiology of the sport. Beginners will find step-by-step instructions and photographs for launching and rigging a boat and developing the proper sculling stroke. Experienced rowers will find guidelines for developing training programs,advanced technique, racing, team boats, safety, and sculling for the more mature rower.
Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to scull at 40
by Barry Strauss.
Barry Strauss, a history professor at Cornell who's determined to overcome his failure as a Little Leaguer, sees a "learn to row" sign and takes the plunge. Strauss makes his sport sound grueling and romantic at the same time, painful and rewarding.
Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing
by Craig Lambert
Some sports--the solitary ones, in particular--are simply more prone to mysticism and mystery than others. Lambert's graceful reflection on rowing is part memoir, part narrative, part celebration. The superficial journey here is over water; the real one is internal.
Essential Sculling... by Daniel J. Boyne.
An authoritative, concise, and thoroughly readable handbook focused on helping the novice become an accomplished sculler.
An Out-of-Boat Experience by Peter Mallory.
This book is the culmination of more than forty years of rowing and coaching on the collegiate, national and international levels, and epic journey is full of peaks and valleys, occasionally tragic, often hilarious.
The Amateurs by David Halberstam.
While other athletes are earning fortunes, rowers gain fame only with each other, and strive with little hope of financial reward. What drives them to endure a physical pain known to no other sport? Pulitzer-Prize winning author David Halberstam focuses with considerable skill on the experiences of the rowers in the 1984 Olympic single sculls trials in Princeton in a book which is both informative and compelling.
Drawn to the Rhythm: A Passionate Life Reclaimed
by Sara Hall.
This elegant and moving memoir recounts how she simultaneously fell in love with rowing and began moving away from a suffocating marriage wherein she was relentlessly belittled. Offering lyrical descriptions of rowing, Hall details how she competed in and won master events (she is the 1998 World Masters Champion in the women's single shell).
The Compleat Dr. Rowing by Andy Anderson.
A collection of the "greatest hits" from the popular "Ask Dr. Rowing" column in the Independent Rowing News. The Dr. answers questions pertaining to all things rowing, from "Did all of the members of that Japanese eight that rowed so high really die?" to "Why do oarsmen produce only daughters?" The Doctor's own particular brand of humor blends with factual and historical research.
Serious Training for Endurance Athletes by Rob Sleamaker.
Whether you swim, run, cycle, cross-country ski, row, or compete in multi-events, this book shows you how to design a personalized year-round training plan for your sport.
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