Dr G's Mental Tips for Rowing

Is Your Head Getting in the Way of Your Performance?

What does it take for you to reach your potential as an athlete and rower? The true challenge in rowing and other endurance sports is the competition between you and the race course, you and the clock, but primarily between you and your mind. Success in rowing is all about your mental ability to handle the pain and fatigue of oxygen debt, about your ability to master the limits that you think you have. The endurance sport athlete's most formidable opponent can be found in the mirror. Look at yourself! You are both the problem and the solution!