National Testing Protocols — Ergo, Laboratory & Strength/Conditioning
**NEW**
Modified Power-Distance Ergometer Test Battery – Able Bodied and Adaptive Rowers (pdf, 92kb)
Protocol: Distance-Power Ergometer Testing (pdf, 536kb)
Adaptive Protocol: Distance Power Ergometer Testing (pdf, 168kb)
National Protocols for the Assessment of Strength and Power (pdf, 212kb)
Protocol: 7 x 4 min step test (pdf, 164kb)
National Rowing Centre of Excellence 2009–2012 Benchmarks and National Prognostics
Download Nov 09 edition (pdf, 180kb)
Notes
Benchmarks
- The NRCE has produce a series of standards to help athletes and coaches understand what is required to be successful on the world stage.
- The Senior A benchmarks are our calculations of the minimum standards required to realistically compete for a Gold medal at the London Olympic Games. We have broken the Senior A standards in 2009/2010 and 2011/2012 to help athletes track their progression across the 4 years of the Olympic cycle.
- Likewise the age-group benchmarks are designed to demonstrate effective progressions through the various stages of development through to Senior A Gold medal standard.
- There are a number of parameters that we have not determined benchmarks (e.g. 30 minute controlled rating ergometer) and plan to do so for 2010 once we have collected more data.
- Additionally with the change in drag factors and the move to sliders, we may need to slightly adjust some benchmarks at the end of 2009.
Prognostics
- The NRCE has determined the prognostic % for all grades for 2009-2012 will be based on the Senior A ‘World Best Times’ as stipulated on the FISA website.
- For Senior A crews it is envisaged that this will provide increased transparency and objectivity in speed analysis.
- For all age group athletes/crews, it will allow the tracking of progression across years through the age grades up to Senior A standard.
- All prognostics will remain in place for the year and at the conclusion of the Senior A World Championships each year any adjustments will be made for the following year in required (i.e. if any new WBTs have been set)
Standardisation of Physiology Nomenclature
Approximately one year ago the National Sports Science Quality Assurance Program finalised a lengthy process on the standardisation of training zone nomenclature. The old classifications of U3, U2 etc have been replaced with classifications of T1 – T5, standardised across all sports. The full outline of the new nomenclature is available in the document “Standardisation of Physiology Nomenclature”.
This information was disseminated amongst physiologists across the country and has been integrated into use over the last 12 months. When working with your physiologists, many of you may have noticed that the training zone nomenclature has changed.
Rowing Australia is in the process of updating all of its coaching education material, and as a result the new physiology nomenclature is being incorporated into this material. With this process well under way, we thought it timely that all of the relevant areas of Rowing Australia business shift to using this new nomenclature.
No doubt, there are many of you used to using the old classifications, and therefore it may take a while to adjust. But so far most coaches exposed to the new system have adjusted without problem. The plan is to use this new nomenclature for all physiology testing from now on, with full integration across all educational material completed in time for the 2009-2012 quadrennium.
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