An Introduction to Rowing by Fourie HL

Author:Fourie, HL [Fourie, HL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-26T06:00:00+00:00

Rowing is a sport of intense physical activity and this chapter gives some background on how the body functions to deliver the effort required. For a physical activity such as rowing the body should be trained for two levels of fitness, energy fitness and muscle fitness. Energy fitness relates to the delivery of energy to the muscles, and muscle fitness is the strength, flexibility and endurance of the muscles.

The energy that the body needs for rowing activity comes from the conversion of glucose in the form of glycogen within the cell into energy by a process called respiration. There two types of respiration: aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration.

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