Competitive Rowing

Masters

The competitive Masters rowing program is offered with John Bernfield’s leadership and experience, with the goal of identifying a group of men and women who are interested in rowing well and training moderately hard.  Masters rowing is for individuals ages 27 and up.

As an athletic trainer, rowing & sports performance coach, and rower with extensive exercise science experience, John Bernfield has a unique background that enables him to analyze rowing and break it down into its key components.  Like many coaches, he spends hours studying an athlete's successful execution, asking why and how the athletes achieved those results.  As a rower, it is not the X’s and O’s that are important but the mechanics of the body and how that relates to fast rowing.  Bernfield’s knowledge of mechanics enables him to draw from proven training techniques to efficiently train the athlete while reducing his or her chance for injury.   

Summer 2011 goals:

• Help each rower gain a greater understanding of the proper technique to make them more powerful, protect them from injury and integrate that technique into crews that are fast from point A to point B (sprints or head races).
• Improve the overall fitness of the participants including: aerobic capacity (Vo2 Max and anaerobic threshold), muscle power & endurance and if needed, improve flexibility.
• Teach participants the level of training appropriate to compete successfully against top level masters crews
• Provide opportunities to learn to race effectively against top competition.
• Above all else, provide opportunities to have fun rowing boats that are well set and responsive to rower’s power application.
• Enjoy people with similar goals.

This competitive Masters program will be offered with 1 six week session, 1 six week session and end with 1 eight week session, with each successive session building on the skills and training provided in the one prior.  

Rowers have a choice to either pay by session or pay for an entire year of unlimited adult rowing and use of certain sculling equipment.  The cost of unlimited adult rowing with certain sculling equipment is $1,000/20 weeks. 
 
You will also have the option of being able to row with Intermediate Competitive Rowing and/or Recreation Rowing. 
 
If you select the unlimited adult rowing ($1,000/20 weeks) you will be contacted on directions and details of sculling equipment use and signing up for the other adult programs.

Regatta Fees (regatta registration, gas, tolls, coxswains/coach) are additional to registration fees for any adult rowing program.

There will be no refunds unless a sickness or injury occurs within the first two weeks. Refunds must be promptly requested. A $50 administrative fee will be deducted from the refund.  There will be no credits for missed classes