Rowing and the Pain Cave - How to Get Through it
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video we talk with former National Rowing Team Member, Ryan Shelton and what it takes to enter, and get through, the "pain cave" when rowing.
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Here are 11 things to consider when assessing your mentality when it comes to rowing:
Are You Close to Your Potential?
The real challenge in rowing and other endurance sports is the competition between you and the race course, you and the clock, but more than anything, between you and your mind. Success in rowing is all about your mental ability to handle the pain and fatigue, lack of oxygen, and your ability to push your boundaries. The endurance sport athlete’s biggest opponent can be found in the mirror. Self-awareness is crucial to excelling beyond your own limits.
Mental Toughness
Is the mental side of training incorporated into your workouts or it is just something you think should come easy? Do you know how to use mental toughness to elevate your performance? Are you one of those athletes who gets anxious before every test or workout? Can you differentiate between competition and training? Are you able to achieve the results you set yourself to or do you always fall short?
Train Smarter…and Harder
Your success on the erg requires you to continually move towards your physical and emotional limits. When you’re tired and your body seems to reach its threshold, you have to stay with the discomfort just a little bit more. When you don’t like the training conditions you have to learn to embrace them. Finding adverse conditions to train in is simply being smart! Sooner or later you’ll have to compete or train in those fatigued and painful moments. If it intimidates you to train with or compete against much better competition, seek those situations! That is how you gain access to the next level! Get comfortable being uncomfortable and you’ll become successful.
Mastering Pain and Fatigue
If you think hurting isn’t or shouldn’t be part of becoming a better athlete you are mistaken. It doesn’t come easy and you need to master a couple of things. First, is how to control your focus when you begin to hurt. Second, is how to neutralize negative thinking and self-doubts your mind is telling you when the pain comes. You need to eliminate negative self-talk and be confident in those hard hours of work that got you to the point you’re at. Focus on the strategy and plan you or your coach came up with and visualize it.
Focus Under Pressure
You must develop the ability to concentrate on what’s important and block out everything else. Longer workouts force you to keep focus. You may still psych out but monitoring your training and knowing when it gets hard for you is how you can improve upon this skill. Focusing on the right things at the right time is key.
Dealing with Adversity
Do setbacks and failures bring you down and give you the extra motivation to thrive even more? Winners build their success on their failures. They learn from their mistakes and then leave them behind. That is what we call rebound-ability. To the successful person, failure is something that you do to get to success, to reach your goals.
Mental Preparation
Get ready ahead of time. Rehearse the plan and visualize your strategy to the smallest detail. If you are prepared, the pre-race jitters are usually less significant and focusing throughout a piece becomes effortless. If there are points in your races where you always fall apart, mental rehearsal can help you turn these weak spots into areas of strength. Read our article on the mental preparation required for rowing to learn more.
Physical Preparation
Becoming efficient and better at rowing without first paying your physical dues is impossible. But once you are able to give a good effort physically it’s important to include and talk about the mental side of training and competing. Don’t just hope without mental preparation to get close to your potential. As we’ve said before, hope will fail you 100% of the time. Prepare both aspects of training and you can excel as a mentally tough competitor.
Do Your Goals Drive You?
I failed many times during my training but just as much, I pushed through intervals at the end of a session that I thought I’m not capable doing. With many hours many, a lot of hard work, and millions of meters later I learned what preparation, visualization, and mental drills work for me. I learn something new every workout about myself. What drives me is my goal to be a better rower, trainer, and to get as close to fully realize my potential as much as possible. - กีฬา
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There is no painful feeling that compares to the feeling of being 3,000 meters into a 6K
What about being 5800m into a 6k?
Just PR'd my 2k for 6:44.6 for February 2018 IRL challenge, definitely look forward to getting sub 6:30 (more pain to come). The pain cave is for real, but oddly it's also addicting.
It really can be. I find it even more so when I have a team to work for and not just myself.
Thank you I'm taking notes on this because this is a very real feeling for me... doing my 2K tomorrow and trying hard to PR
For me, that pain cave is more mental than physical. During my 20:00 or 30:00 regular rows for distance, sometimes I hit the wall of, I don't wanna keep pushing this hard. Instead, my choice is to push a bit harder, to remind myself that I am going to keep my intensity. I want to gain every thing this 20:00 or 30:00 session can give me. It may hurt, even suck, but I welcome this opportunity to grow. I do many 20:00 rows and love the challenge of riding that intensity, that used to be found only in my 2K rows.
I have a 2k in like an hour ish ans I’m so nervous
Ive got my 5000m test coming up, gonna be one long pain cave
Standard 5k or trials for anything?
Inclub trials but will determine if i am eligible for GB trails
WillFilms J18 or U23?
J16
those 5ks always are pain caves. We hope it went well.
3:05 , this one stroke is made like from Michelangelo....
art transformed in an athletic movement...
a perfect, sensually, harmony between athlet and the machine...
exceptionell beautiful ,absolute perfection... to be in love with it...
I hope, I come a bit near to such a perfection the next year in my rowing technique
Have you ever considered doing a video comparing the RP3 to the concept II? I'm interested to know the differences in the mechanics of the machine and how to maximize efficiency on both.
We have P mar. Definitely something we'd like to do in the near future as we grow and can invest more into our videos!
+Dark Horse Rowing cool, much love from Philly!
Preesh P mar. Love that we're reaching Philly. We have a bronze from Dad Vails in the collegiate novice 8+ so it holds a special place in our hearts.
The lat 5k I did made me “cave in” for real! I was not mentally ready for the hurt. Should have seen it coming 😭
Will do better next time!
Could you please explain your technique? At 0:45, two strokes are shown in which you start to pull with your arms long time before your legs are extended (almost immediately after the catch). Ryan keeps them extended until his upper body is at least vertical and his legs fully extended.
Dan, Nikolas pointed out that, in the above video, Sean bends his elbows before his legs are fully stretched.
I think it’s funny I’ve seen a few vids before in high school and didn’t know he went to USD or never really paid attention until today when I realized I go to USD and I’m in the women’s rowing team (I lived in jersey)😂
Still SD based too! Would love to come swing by practice some time.
The mental part of performance dropping if is normally much more a mental thank a physical, review your sessions , I look at sprints and check distance rowed every five seconds to see as a fact what was going on
Just keep focussing on completing every set of 5. Focus on smaller achievements within the larger one.