Something that I need to get off my chest... If you're in your final year at school, do not stop training. I think I might have mentioned this before but it won't help you get better grades. What it will do is increase your likelihood of injury and giving up.
Injury because in the year you take off your body tightens up, and funnily enough becomes unfit. Then suddenly you want to hit it with all the training you did previously and get the same scores you were getting. Sadly the same scores won't be good enough as you were a junior and you are now a senior so you need better scores. Better scores that you could have been progressing towards in your final year at school but now better scores that you will try and force out of an unfit and inflexible form. This is where the giving up comes in because when you find out that it's going to take ages to get to the required standard you lose patience and chose life over the static bike.
In short, if you're interested in rowing successfully at university then you need to be able to handle a certain intensity and volume. Don't make excuses, step up and keep at it.
Injury because in the year you take off your body tightens up, and funnily enough becomes unfit. Then suddenly you want to hit it with all the training you did previously and get the same scores you were getting. Sadly the same scores won't be good enough as you were a junior and you are now a senior so you need better scores. Better scores that you could have been progressing towards in your final year at school but now better scores that you will try and force out of an unfit and inflexible form. This is where the giving up comes in because when you find out that it's going to take ages to get to the required standard you lose patience and chose life over the static bike.
In short, if you're interested in rowing successfully at university then you need to be able to handle a certain intensity and volume. Don't make excuses, step up and keep at it.
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