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Faster with Bill Chambers
Bill Chambers
54 episodes
1 day ago
Long form in depth interviews with the best guests from the rowing world, coaches, sports scientists and athletes and everything in between, sharing ideas and inspiration to go Faster. Online www.whchambers.com Instagram @alpineaussie Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bill.chambers.334 #rowing #row #concept2 #mastersrowing #personaltransformation #swissrowing #billchambers
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Long form in depth interviews with the best guests from the rowing world, coaches, sports scientists and athletes and everything in between, sharing ideas and inspiration to go Faster. Online www.whchambers.com Instagram @alpineaussie Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bill.chambers.334 #rowing #row #concept2 #mastersrowing #personaltransformation #swissrowing #billchambers
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Faster with Bill Chambers
Power Meter Series. How to use power meters to train for rowing. James Goodwin, head of sports science Swiss Rowing Federation.

Part of the series of interviews on how to use a power meter in rowing. James Goodwin is the head of sports science with the Swiss Rowing Federation and shares his experience in how to train using power as a metric to maximise training performance and ultimately boat speed.

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9 months ago
34 minutes 5 seconds

Faster with Bill Chambers
Interview with Fil Ljubicic, Chair of Indoor Rowing Commission, World Rowing. 2025 Official World Indoor Championships.
9 months ago
33 minutes 2 seconds

Faster with Bill Chambers
Power Meter Series with Nielsen-Kellerman & Empower Oarlock

Join me as I interview Michael Naughton, Chief Operating Officer at Nielsen-Kellerman about the Empower Oarlock.

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1 year ago
51 minutes 49 seconds

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Power Meter Series. International rowing coach Noel Donaldson

Noel Donaldson is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most successful rowing coaches, building and leading teams to win multiple world championships and olympic gold medals over 3 decades in two different countries. As part of the series on using power meters in rowing, Noel shares the lessons learnt from using power meters with Gold medal international crews to school crews, and how they can help you to make the boat go faster.

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1 year ago
1 hour 7 minutes 56 seconds

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Power Meter Series. Interview with Michael Naughton, Chief Operations Officer Nielsen Kellerman.

Join me in my conversation with Michael Naughton, Chief Operations Officer Nielsen Kellerman.

  • How Michael got started in rowing
  • Origins of Nielsen Kellerman (NK)
  • Development of the Cox Box and Stroke Coach through to today
  • How the fallout between NK & Concept2 over the C2 rowing machine display enabled NK to grow
  • Future innovations NK are working on


Michael holds a Master of Science, in Naval Architecture/Ocean Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami.

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1 year ago
47 minutes 4 seconds

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Power Meter Series. Pete King & Dick Smith, Wallingford Rowing Club, Oxford.

Join me as I discuss with Pete King and Dick Smith, from Oxford England, why and how they power meters in rowing. We discuss the brand they use. How they use the data to determine seating in the coxless four. How they use the data to understand strengths and areas for improvement.

Pete and Dick are two members of the Wallingford coxed four that won the masters title at the Head of The Charles regatta in 2017 and set a new course record in 2018. They are part of the highly successful Wallingford crew that have won multiple National and International masters rowing titles.


For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, go to ⁠⁠www.whchambers.com⁠⁠ and subscribe.

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1 year ago
1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds

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Exclusive interview with Vincent Gaillard, Executive Director World Rowing

Join me as I speak exclusively with Vincent Gaillard, Executive Director of World Rowing, about the future direction of Rowing. In this episode, Vincent shares World Rowing's 15 year plan to transform the reach, the image and revenues of the sport. We discuss the expansion into coastal rowing, indoor rowing, plans to drive awareness and boost audience engagement. Vincent also talks about what we can expect after the 1,500m racing format at the LA Games. World Rowing's new partnership with Concept2 and the future of rowing in e-sports Games.


For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, go to ⁠⁠www.whchambers.com⁠⁠ and subscribe.


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1 year ago
1 hour 10 minutes 56 seconds

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Power Meter Series: How Greg Benning uses power meters to make the boat go faster.

Join Greg and I, as we discuss how Greg uses power meters set the boat up, understand the effectiveness of the stroke and programme training with the power meter to help him go faster.

Greg Benning, started rowing at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and has been engaged in the sport ever since. Greg won the Head of The Charles regatta over 20 times and the Silver Skiff International Time Trial 9 times.

For more information and to subscribe to my newsletter, go to ⁠www.whchambers.com⁠ and subscribe.

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1 year ago
1 hour 7 minutes 31 seconds

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Matt Draper International Rowing Events Manager

Join me as I speak with Matt Draper about his experience in rowing over the last 30-years that has taken Matt from High Performance Manager with Australian Rowing to organising Olympic and World Rowing Championship events.

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1 year ago
1 hour 19 minutes 4 seconds

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Metrics I use to track & manage my rowing training for performance
In this episode I cover the metrics that I track during a rowing season, to monitor and manage performance. This episode ought to be useful for anyone seeking to understand what training metrics and devices are best to improve their performance in rowing. To subscribe to my newsletter go to www.whchambers.com to sign up.
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2 years ago
29 minutes 25 seconds

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Jan Lammers CEO RP3 Rowing Machines

In this episode I talk with Jan Lammers, CEO of RP3 Rowing Machines.

  • History of RP3
  • Design philosophy to simulate on water rowing
  • Why dynamic rowing machines are better for your back
  • E-racing and the future of connected rowing
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2 years ago
1 hour 2 minutes 39 seconds

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All about Oars with Meredith & Kevin from Concept2

This episode will help you better understand the range from Concept2.

Meredith and Kevin explain all there is to know about the different blades, oar shaft and grips from Concept2. We discuss how Concept2 started to where they are today. Key differences between the different blade shapes and oar shaft. How to set up the boat with different oars. How to care and maintain the equipment. To ideas and best practice on how to test which set of oars/scull are the best for you.

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2 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 13 seconds

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Dr Conny Draper Phd, Biomechanist rowing

Join me as I talk with highly experienced applied Sports Biomechanist Dr Conny Draper PhD about how what we can learn from how National Teams analyse the rowing stroke to go faster. Conny has a vast expertise in Rowing, Canoe Kayak (Sprint and Slalom), Para Sport, and a range of other sports including Diving, Swimming, Athletics. 

Conny was the Senior Sports Biomechanist for Rowing at the Australian Institute of Sport and now Consulting in Applied Sports Biomechanics, to National Rowing Teams, Universities and Masters Rowers interested in taking analysis and applied understanding of how to move the boat to the next level. 

Connect with Conny via LinkedIn

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3 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 59 seconds

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Looking back to plan forward. How to plan your season with Greg Benning & Bill Chambers

Multiple masters champion Greg Benning & I discuss how we look back on our last season and training to plan forward for the next season. Lessons learnt and tips from Greg and I to share and hopefully inspire you in your training and racing.

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3 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 3 seconds

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Dr Tony Rice, Rowing Australia
Dr Tony Rice is a legend in sports science and has been involved in sports science with Rowing Australia for more than two decades. Tony is the Head of Performance Support at Rowing Australia. Tony and I cover many topics, yet I was really curious to understand more about the Endurance Training Score (ETS) system that he developed, to quantify the specific training loads in rowing. Tony covers in detail his thinking on how to breath in rowing for optimal performance. His experiments with the best race week taper, dynamic warm-ups and how to best activate the body to be ready to race. Some fantastic insights into how the world's very best prepare to race, and what we can learn and adapt from these insights.
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3 years ago
1 hour 28 minutes 37 seconds

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Interview with Nick Lloyd, Woman's coach, Swiss Rowing Federation

Nick Lloyd is the woman's coach at the Swiss Rowing Federation, and the assistant coach to Ian Wright. Growing up in Sydney Australia, Nick has been involved in and led the coaching of some of the most successful school crews in Australia and New Zealand. Now assisting Head Coach Ian Wright in the Swiss programme, Nick shares his thoughts on what it takes to bring a crew together as one to go fast, and his approach to technique.


Books mentioned in the interview.

  • True Blue
  • Last of the amatuers
  • Boys in the boat


Video mentioned in the interview.

  • ‘The Crew’ Rowing Documentary - Nudgee College 
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3 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 36 seconds

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International Rowing Coach, Marty Aitken
Marty Aiken is known world wide as one of best coaches around. Marty started coaching in the 1980's and has a track record of success at World Championships, Henley Royal Regatta and the Olympics having coached Xeno Muller to a Gold in 1996 and Silver in 2000, and the Gier brothers to Gold in 1996. Marty has held positions with Rowing Australia, the Victorian Institute of Sport, GB Rowing, Scottish Institute of Sport and Swiss Rowing and was recognised as Coach of the year by the International Rowing Federation. Marty is a great story teller with plenty of stories to share with us about his time working with Jürgen Gröbler, Harry Mahon, Paul Thompson and Chris O'Brian. Marty shares what it was like to coach Xeno Muller and the Gier brothers to Gold in the 1996 Olympics, along with his thoughts on how to move the boat fast.
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3 years ago
1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds

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Olympic & World Champion Rower, Iztok Cop explains the Filippi small boat range

Live interview with Iztok Cop, at the European Junior Championships, where Itzok explains the Filippi small boat range. 

If you want to know what single scull is best suited to you, take some time to hear Itztok explain all the differences between the Filippi small boat range. Refreshingly open and fun conversation with one of the legends of our sport.

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3 years ago
40 minutes 58 seconds

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How the brain can limit your rowing performance - Tactics for Masters Rowers, with Prof Samuele Marcora

In this episode, I talk with Prof Samuele Marcora about how the brain regulates performance, and what we can do about this to go Faster.

Prof Marcora is well known in the world of sports science and considered an expert in this subject.

He has a Bachelor in Physical Education from the Higher Institute of Physical Education of Lombardy (Italy). A MSc in Human Performance at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (USA), and a PhD in Exercise Physiology at the University of Wales-Bangor (UK). He has taught at the Bangor University (UK) and the University of Kent (UK) , where he was made an honorary Professor.

Prof Marcora's research integrates exercise physiology with motivation psychology and cognitive neuroscience to better understand fatigue, endurance performance and physical activity behaviour. He is the author of Sport and the Brain: The science of preparing, enduring and winning, and has over 185 scientific articles, being cited over 10,000 times. He has been a consultant for many organisations including British Ministry of Defence, Juventus, MAPEI Sport and ASICS, and in 2018 he began his post at the University of Bologna, where he teaches applied physiology and training methodology.

What we cover in depth

  • How the brain regulates performance
  • What is the difference between pain and fatigue
  • How his model differs from the classic understanding of fatigue, e.g central governor theory 
  • What’s going on ‘inside’ when we are racing at the limit and we ‘hear’ the voice inside saying counter productive messages
  • Recommendations for masters rowers to prepare to do their best in a maximum test/race
  • Interventions to maintain/increase performance when feeling fatigued
  • How would you incorporate the application and training plan design
  • How to integrate brain endurance training with traditional training sessions
  • Advice to masters rowers looking to integrate this... a lot of science
  • How brain endurance ties into recovery strategy, role of sleep and the role of meditation
  • The most effective primers to ward off fatigue
  • Recommended visual and audible cues
  • Fatigue mediation/mitigation strategies, any good stories from power/endurance sports?


Samuele recommends the following books

  • Endure by Alex Hutchinson
  • Sport and the Brain: The science of preparing, enduring and winning


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3 years ago
1 hour 36 minutes 18 seconds

Faster with Bill Chambers
Nutrition for rowing with Dr Charlie Simpson, Oxford Brookes

Join my conversation with Dr Charlie Simpson about nutrition for rowers. 

  • How to fuel for different training sessions
  • What to eat and when after exercising or strength training
  • Supplements (BCAA, Beta Alanine, Protein etc...)
  • Are all calories the same
  • What to watch out for in diets
  • Options for vegetarians 

Go to the episode webpage to download free material. www.whchambers.com

Dr Charlie Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at Oxford Brookes University

B.S. Kinesiology (University of Texas at Austin), MapplSci Applied Exercise and Sport Science (University of Sydney), PGCert Academic Practice (University of Reading), PhD Biomedical Sciences-Human Physiology (University of Aberdeen)


Links

My Fitness Pal https://www.myfitnesspal.com

EXR Rowing game https://exrgame.com

Hydrow indoor rowing https://hydrow.com


Books

  • Advanced rowing. International Perspectives On High Performance.
  • The Complete Guide To Indoor Rowing.
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3 years ago
1 hour 23 minutes 13 seconds

Faster with Bill Chambers
Long form in depth interviews with the best guests from the rowing world, coaches, sports scientists and athletes and everything in between, sharing ideas and inspiration to go Faster. Online www.whchambers.com Instagram @alpineaussie Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bill.chambers.334 #rowing #row #concept2 #mastersrowing #personaltransformation #swissrowing #billchambers