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Latest Issue · Volume 7, Issue 6
May 2026
Predicting 2k Performance and Profiling Athletes Using the Anaerobic Power Reserve Framework
You Can’t Use Fitness You Can’t Deliver: Neuromuscular Fatigue in Rowing
Coxswains Are Performers Too: Considerations for Coxswain Mental Skills Training
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Latest Issue · Volume 7, Issue 6
May 2026
Predicting 2k Performance and Profiling Athletes Using the Anaerobic Power Reserve Framework
You Can’t Use Fitness You Can’t Deliver: Neuromuscular Fatigue in Rowing
Coxswains Are Performers Too: Considerations for Coxswain Mental Skills Training
+ Infographic | Podcast | Video walkthrough
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The field
15,000 SPORTS
PAPERS A YEAR.
That's roughly how many sports science papers get published every year. Almost none of it ever reaches a coach.
The filter
36 FINDINGS
THAT MATTER.
Every year we surface the roughly three dozen peer-reviewed pieces that genuinely change how rowers should train.
The gift
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What it would take you to read and parse those papers yourself, reclaimed for the boathouse, the gym, and the boat.
The problem
Peer-reviewed rowing science is published every week. Most of it sits behind paywalls, written for other researchers, not for coaches and practitioners like you.
You appreciate the value, but you lack the time… You're at the boathouse before dawn, building training plans, watching video, managing athlete welfare. Reading academic journals isn't on your schedule.
So the research on catch timing, lactate dynamics, optimal stroke rate stays in paywalled PDFs, cited by other researchers, never reaching the boathouse where it could change how your rowers train.
Science of Rowing reads the research for you. Three studies a month, translated into coaching language you can put to work the same week.
This month's featured article
Fresh from May 2026. Every article follows the same format.
Performance & Testing
Vol. VII · Issue 06
By Joe DeLeo
Understanding the interplay between aerobic and anaerobic energy systems is crucial for optimizing performance and identifying talent in rowing. This work explores how the anaerobic power reserve framework can be utilized to predict rowing performance and categorize athletes based on their distinct physiological profiles.
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