Power 10 An Olympian Shares 10 Ways to Improve Your Rowing eBook Fred Borchelt
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A collection of an Olympic oarsman’s personal experiences written with specific tips which promise to motivate and educate the reader to higher levels of excellence.
All rowing competitors and coaches enjoy hearing and sharing memorable stories that express the essence of the sport they love intensely. Borchelt has compiled ten of his best stories from a lifetime spent in rowing from Washington, D.C. to Boston, from Montreal to Moscow, from East Berlin to Egypt and which continues on today. His reflections are based on what he learned while rowing for and coaching with some of America’s legendary coaches Harry Parker, Kris Korzeniowski, Charlie Butt and Al Rosenberg.
Each chapter opens with the telling of a story about times in racing shells, on rivers and lakes and inside boathouses all across the world. Borchelt’s stories are drawn from a career that saw him grow from being the stroke of his high school 3rd eight to captain of his college varsity crew to a bronze and silver World Championship medalist and ultimately to winning a silver medal in the thrilling final of the eights race at the 1984 Olympics. He shares numerous specific suggestions based on each story that will give you an inside view of training and racing at all levels of the sport and what you can do to achieve higher levels of performance.
Borchelt’s stories will make you laugh with amusement, nod your head with agreement and cause your eyes to tear up with emotion as you realize that his stories are much like your own experiences. He brings to life the jitters felt at the starting line, the exhilaration of a sprint to the finish line, the disappointment of being cut from a national team and the pride of competing with his older brother in a way that will inform, instruct and inspire you in your quest for growth and improvement. He goes beyond each experience to provide practical ways that you can apply what he has learned to make your time in rowing more satisfying and successful.
If you enjoy being entertained while you are learning then Power 10 is the book for you.
Power 10 An Olympian Shares 10 Ways to Improve Your Rowing eBook Fred Borchelt
Currently, I'm the team captain of my university's crew team, and I am definitely going to be either recommending this book highly to my teammates or flat-out purchasing a dozen copies to hand out. I just finished this book, and I'm honestly having difficulty expressing the way I feel in words, but I'll try. I was deeply moved throughout this relatively short book by the author's more-than-evident passion for the sport of rowing. Mr. Borchelt has an effusive desire to pass on the valuable lessons he learned while competing on an international level. He offers sage advice that is true no matter the decade, whether you're in a sleek carbon-fiber Fluidesign 1x or an old, wood Kaschper 4+. Patience, perseverance, and an uncompromising commitment to excellence in sport is evident throughout Mr. Borchelt's book and personal life. He speaks to the reader as a teacher, friend, and coach, rather than faded athlete boasting about "good old days". And it's more than sage wisdom - Fred gives excellent descriptions of the techniques he considers the best at making the boat move fast, and why. He also writes compelling accounts of the races where he learned the lessons he passes on in his book. Honestly, if you're a rower who feels like they're plateauing, struggling futilely, lacking motivation, or simply don't know what it means to be a good rower, you need this book. Believe me, it's worth every penny.Product details
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Power 10 An Olympian Shares 10 Ways to Improve Your Rowing eBook Fred Borchelt Reviews
The content was good and showed the intense physical work and the emotional swings rowers experience. However, the sound and editing were pretty sloppy. I felt like the ending was cut short, but enjoyed it nevertheless
As a former high school and college rower forty years removed from the sport, Fred's book makes me want to get back into a shell today. I plan on training for six months and take a chance that I still have what it takes to compete in a race. Thanks Fred !
I am honored to be included in Fred's "Power 10". Although this book is geared to the athlete any coach who has not read it is short changing his or her professional development. In my mind Fred's singular most important coaching advise is about practice. If coaches do not prepare thoughtfully and with purpose for each practice their athletes will not perform well come race day. His review of the rowing stroke and the mental approach toward racing is based on his personal development through systematic preparation which was replicated during his racing career. This book should be in the same bag as a coach's rain gear and pitch meter. Well rowed Fred!
I bought this based on the positive reviews and the stellar athletic career of the author. The writing was clear (unlike some books on rowing that I've read) and Fred's story was engaging. However, I was looking for some nuts and bolts guidance on rowing technique and training and didn't find much along those lines. His ten sections (hence the "power ten" title) dealt with a lot of generalities. Good advice, to be sure, but not anything that is going to improve my sculling ability.
Virtually every boat Fred Borchelt jumped into on the junior or elite world stage from the early 1970s to mid-1980s either won a medal or was in contention for one. He delivered the goods in every sweep-rowing boat class - including arguably the most challenging the straight pair - during a period when, we know conclusively now, the eastern bloc was perfecting dirty-pool techniques to artificially enhance human performance. This decade-and-a-half was, on balance, a dry spell in U.S. men's international rowing history consistent with today's standards, illegal measures were categorically rejected by the system and not until 1983 would a development leader with a modern, winning technical vision emerge on the national scene.
There were notable exceptions to the period's mediocrity the silver medal winning 1972 U.S. Olympic eight, coached by Harvard's Harry Parker, was a welcome shot in the arm. The gold medal winning 1974 U.S. world championship eight developed by Vesper's Al Rosenberg was another. These boats were manned by legends. But if pressed to nominate the single athlete who played the biggest role in nurturing the optimism of an entire men's program in those days, my vote would go to Mr. Borchelt.
Fred Borchelt knows in his bones what makes rowing boats fast. If this gentleman is in the mood to share the ingredients of his success, earnest students of rowing could do worse than to commit the recipe to memory.
Although "Power 10..." is first and foremost a "how-to" guide, it lifts the lid often enough on some of the author's core beliefs and idiosyncrasies to support the impression that it wants to take flight as a biography. Nonetheless, any thorough effort to address the who, when, what and whys largely remains grounded. But this may be the raison d'être of Fred Borchelt's advertised sequel "Passing the Torch...". If so, that might indeed be a book to rival the best written to date with this great sport at its heart.
Phil Stekl
With a casual wit and an unquestioned credibility, Fred Borchelt has put together a superb book. I loved the innovative organization with 10 anecdotes which appear at first to be simply about rowing, but turn out to be profound insights on living which transcend crew. From the opening chapter, where you are rooting for the author to win the bronze, through the 10th chapter, you find yourself embracing Mr. Borchelt's wisdom--even if you've never stepped inside a crew shell! The key is that crew is the ultimate team sport (the author notes in chapter 7 that crew rowers are quite literally all in the same boat together) and so is life, isn't it? Fred Borchelt's rowing advice finds fertile ground with the rower and non-rower alike because his wisdom can apply to any goal you might set for yourself in life, whether on the water or on dry ground. I highly recommend this book if you are an athlete, but I recommend as well if you are a writer, painter, academic, musician, etc. I've never picked up an oar in my life and I still loved the book.
Currently, I'm the team captain of my university's crew team, and I am definitely going to be either recommending this book highly to my teammates or flat-out purchasing a dozen copies to hand out. I just finished this book, and I'm honestly having difficulty expressing the way I feel in words, but I'll try. I was deeply moved throughout this relatively short book by the author's more-than-evident passion for the sport of rowing. Mr. Borchelt has an effusive desire to pass on the valuable lessons he learned while competing on an international level. He offers sage advice that is true no matter the decade, whether you're in a sleek carbon-fiber Fluidesign 1x or an old, wood Kaschper 4+. Patience, perseverance, and an uncompromising commitment to excellence in sport is evident throughout Mr. Borchelt's book and personal life. He speaks to the reader as a teacher, friend, and coach, rather than faded athlete boasting about "good old days". And it's more than sage wisdom - Fred gives excellent descriptions of the techniques he considers the best at making the boat move fast, and why. He also writes compelling accounts of the races where he learned the lessons he passes on in his book. Honestly, if you're a rower who feels like they're plateauing, struggling futilely, lacking motivation, or simply don't know what it means to be a good rower, you need this book. Believe me, it's worth every penny.
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