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Photo credit: @casitasrowing (instagram) from San Diego Crew Classic
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How Rowing Analytics Can
Make You A Better Athlete
As the general public rallies around activity-monitoring electronics like the FitBit, rowers, too, can benefit from the use of analytics tools to help them perform at their very best. T
he rise of data analytics is helping us identify that fraction
of a second that can make or break your race. Here's how rowing analytics can make you a better athlete:
- Tracking speed is motivating and encouraging. With systems like the Coxmate GPS, you get the ability to track stroke rate, speed per stroke, distance, time, heart rate and more, all of which can be highly motivational for the Classic Type A rower :).
- Monitoring changes in performance is a good way to predict possible overuse injuries & overtraining. Data showing a performance slide may allow you to identify periods for critical recovery.
- By analyzing specific workouts, you can identify and fine-tune areas of weakness, helping to determine which skills and training attributes need extra work.
- Data helps you compare not only yourself against others, but also yourself over time or across different training conditions.
- Heart rate awareness and deliberate heart-rate training protocols can help ensure you are maximizing your efficiency for the entire duration of your race so you don't "bonk" just when it's time to push even harder.
- Records get broken because of advances in the sport and the difference between gold and silver is often in the minutia. Today, the only way to predict whether you've got what it takes is by learning how to use tools that provide deeper insight into your physiology.
- Tracking data can expose whether other aspects of your life are creating an impact on the water. That beer you had last night? The stress of an exam? Seeing how this plays out in the analytics helps you manage your life in a way that is congruent with your training.
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RESOLUTE
is North America's
premier COXMATE Distributor
It's spring training time and we know how it goes... You need to do everything you can to stay ahead of the competition, but you need to do it affordably. That's why Resolute is happy to offer our customers the full line of Coxmate rowing electronics. Coxmate is currently leading the world in the innovation of rowing analytics, yet they also happen to be the most affordable. The Coxmate GPS, for instance, is a compact, rechargeable, waterproof sports computer for rowers and coxswains. Though extremely compact, it boasts 3.5 gigs of data (that's over 100,000 strokes) which you can easily download to your computer after your workout.
Coxmate units fit directly into mounts for other brands, including suction cup or foot stretcher mounting.
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Using the Coxmate GPS
Pace Boat Feature
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