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As the summer starts rolling around and championship season is coming to a close for many clubs some of you may be looking for guidance in training and taking your performance to a new level.  I know here at our club we are offering multiple different camps (elite camp to go to club nationals, an elite sculling camp, returning rower camp, my own strength camp, and various learn-to-row camps) and I thought to extend my services to the rowing community for those that aren’t in the Atlanta area.

Lightweight’s looking to manage weight?  No problem - a large amount of my techniques were used the other weekend for some top EARC sprints boats looking to make weight.

Want to increase max wattage?  That’s what my primary focus is.  Getting rowers as strong as possible so as to make sub-max splits easier.  If your max wattage is 650 and you can bump it to 800, rowing at 400 watts for a 2k is now significantly easier as it is a much lower % of your max.

Stroke Analysis - Want some assessment on your stroke?  Get some videos and it will be broken down through all parts of the drive and recovery to make sure you’re maximizing your specific leverages.

Training program - Sometimes it’s as simple as needing a full comprehensive program to take you through the off-season ensuring that you’re doing things right.  My programs include erging, rowing, cycling, running (all options depending upon equipment availability) and lifting.  Finding a way to stave off boredom during the long months with minimal competition while improving performance for the competitive season is the goal of my training programs.  They’re built for the athlete and not some cookie cutter program.  Training programs aren’t a one fit all type thing - as coaches we have to build a “boat program” but often that means it works better for some rowers than others because it is targeting their weaknesses where they may be strengths in others - the training programs at VTS are tailored to the individual to turn YOUR weaknesses into strengths.

So to all the rowers out there - if you’re looking to take your training to new levels and come back in the fall stronger and faster than feel free to contact me via e-mail at ttucker@valhallatrainingsystem.com or shoot me an ask on here!

The rowing special will be $300/12 weeks of training/nutrition consulting.

The Viking

Solid day of racing here at USRowing Southeastern Youth Regionals in Sarasota Florida.

My team did quite well with all of our varsity boats (kids I directly work with, we don’t strength train until they’re on Varsity) all will proceed to the finals tomorrow.  I’m proud of all the hard work and dedication to excellence of my rowers and hope to see continued success tomorrow with multiple boats qualifying for Youth Nationals.

From a personal side point it’s been an exhausting day.  While the kids get to stay out of the sun and rest all day the coaches are running around like madmen fixing various things on boats, dealing with food being prepared, launching and catching boats going on and off the water.  With all this going on I’ve barely had enough time to eat much and my weight is down to 190 lbs (lowest I’ve been without artificially dropping weight in a year or so).  I’ll be going to Chiles to replenish and attempt to forego beer (unlikely).  

No training this weekend (heavy leg press and shrugs yesterday since I’ll be missing squat training) but it’s not exactly a rest weekend so hopefully I’ll come back out on the other side of this ready to pick back up on my own training towards APC Nationals in June as I seek my first American title as well as to qualify for Worlds in Argentina later this year.

Congrats again to all the rowers today all over - know there’s lots of championship racing going on in various parts of the country.