Scenario:
River Rosewell is a professional rower who has just beenaccepted into the USA athlete in residence program at the OlympicTraining Center in Colorado Springs. He has been team rowing sincethe age of 11. He attended Harvard University on a rowingscholarship is now 21 years old. He has spent the last year aftergraduation (graduated with a BS degree in Business) pursuing hisdream of making it on to the USA rowing team for the single skullsevent (heavyweight).
The typical length of a single skulls race is 2 kilometers. Herowed a practice event at the same course he is going to open theseason at and had an average (average of two race runs) of 7.01minutes. This placed him 12th out a field of 30 internationalqualifiers. This was good enough to qualify him for the actualrowing event event held 12 weeks later.
Assume that the “actual†race will be carried out under verysimilar weather conditions.
He has worked with a personal trainer for the last year, working onimproving his basic strength, strength endurance, power andmobility, and is ready for more “sport specific training†as heapproaches skulling circuit.  Â
Listed below are some of his current anthropometric andperformance based characteristics
Physical Characteristics
Height 6â€2
Weight 195lb
% Body Fat 11%
1RM Back Squat 330lb
1RM Power clean 260lb
1RM Bench press 280lb
Deadlift 450lb
CMVJ height (hands on hips) 27.0 inches
Can perform 20 bodyweight pull ups
Rowing ergometer, based incremental Vo2max 59ml.kg.min
1. Highlight the key physiological (and some anthropometric)characteristics which would seem important if you wanted to be anelite rower. Please provide rationales for your choices.
2. Design the first 4 weeks (1-4) of his preparation for the rowingevent concentrating upon his; Strength and Conditioning, sportspecific balance and mobility. Please spell out; exercises used andwhy, sets, reps, rest periods and relative loads used and why. Payclose attention to the exercises you prescribe and theirphysiological suitability for the sport of rowing.
