Couple that with mornings providing the best water, the least amount of boat traffic and the fact that saying you can see the sunrise every morning, provides a pretty compelling case. Where possible, I avoid training first thing in the morning. The stress that early morning training places on my body, has lead me to be more susceptible to injury, sickness and frankly has taken me much longer to reach my goals and see improvements. As an asthmatic, mornings are my nemesis. The air is cold, my body is cold and my forced expiratory volume and peak expiratory flow are at their lowest Gaultier et al.
This first became very apparent to me racing in a time trial on a fresh water river. Having always trained on the harbour in salt water , the mean water temperature was always much higher than the river. The early mornings and low temperatures meant I would always suffer respiratory discomfort. This discomfort correlated with poor performance and high levels of frustration. However my 2k race results were always much better.
Time-trials started at 7am, 2k racing started at 9am. The effect asthma had on my body was greatly reduced later in the day. Another consideration to make, especially for maters rowers or those coaching them, is the stickiness of platelets early in the morning.
A study by a group of Boston Scientist revealed that those that suffer heart attack or stroke are most likely to suffer one first thing in the morning. This in conjunction with the fact that the highest spike in blood pressure occurs first thing in the morning, has meant that medical practitioners suggest anyone with pre-existing cardiac conditions, avoid strenuous activity early in the day Duda, Increases in body temperature may also lead to an increase in carbohydrate utilization as a primary fuel source over fats and also possibly facilitate actin-myosin cross bridge mechanics, which allows muscles to generate more force Starkie et al.
The effect of temperature and injuries also correlates, but this is common sense. The warm-up is a technique that every sport uses. However early morning warm-ups almost artificially warm the body up. They create spikes in body temperature and blood pressure amongst other adaptions, reducing cardiovascular efficiency Cardiovascular efficiency peaks around 5pm. Another key area to address with body temperature is the effect on grip strength. In rowing there are two points of contact for force production, the feet and the hands.
Isometric grip strength appears to peak between 2 pm and 5 pm and the isometric strength of the arm muscles has been seen to peak in the early evening as well Atkinson et al. I erg for minutes, varying the workout from day to day- sometimes intervals, sometimes just a straight row.
I shave, shower, and am out the door feeling fit and ready to tackle the day. When I miss the workout, my whole day sucks Health and Fitness Post by [old] Guido B » August 20th, , am How do you do find the courage to get up in the morning and start training? They showed him training early in the morning on an indoor bike, really going hard. He claimed it helped it body burning fat in stead of glycogen. This way, at a race, he would have more glycogen left at the last K's where it mattered.
Any comments? I guess it's hard for us because our habits have changed due to 9 - 5 jobs and TV and other entertainment in the evening. I use a carrot stick approach.
The stick is the exercise. The carrot is to watch TV and listen to music. I refuse to watch TV without exercising. A job change late last year required me to start my day on the erg, at am and it has really been a struggle for me. I guess after reading this, I know that I am not the only one!
Health and Fitness Post by [old] k-dawg » September 8th, , am The laws of Physics say that an object in motion tends to stay in motion. I just keep moving until I wake up. I drink a cup of coffee and some cranberry juice while this is going on. I also do some crunches before getting on the rower. I find this much easier than waking up to erg but I do have some tricks for getting myself out of bed although I am a morning person, 5 AM is still tough. It sounds like a fire alarm and really makes me jump.
Gets the heart rate going! If I anticipate that I am going to be exhausted, I will put it half way across the room so I have to get up to turn it off. Sometimes, If im totaly wiped, I'll drink a nice huge cup of coffee. We converse in the car to wake each other up. Walking from the heated car to the boat bay is really quite a shocker. But if you peer through the dark, you'll see small white lights pulsing their way along the shores of Lake Union.
They mark the bows and sterns of dozens of rowing shells, launched early to take advantage of the smooth morning water. By the time the sun rises, passersby can see these boats glide under the bridges that span Portage Bay and the Montlake Cut. Like many adult novices, I started off in the big eight-oared sweep boats, the kind the Husky crews power through our waters. Rowing is about rhythm.
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