If you have recently started rowing or have been doing it at a recreational level and now want to compete and win, the LYR performance programme is for you.
LYR have NGB qualified, experienced, top quality coaches to help you move forward.
We offer athletes intensive training at all our centres and to become competitive we continually compete against one another on both the ergometer (indoor rowing machine) and on the water. The training is demanding and time consuming and there are no short cuts to success. So, if you want to go for national trials and possibly one day represent GB or maybe even go to the Olymics, contact us straight away and we will help all we can!
GB Trials
Run by British Rowing for those with the necessary ambition and ability, the top of the tree is not so far away in rowing as it is in other sports. Particularly at a junior level, the most vital ingredients to success are desire and determination. Put in more sessions than the next person and in most cases, you’ll soon be beating them. If you are fast enough on the rowing machine and your coach thinks you’re fast enough on the water, you’ll be sent to GB Early Identification Trials in November along with about 200 other hopefuls from around the UK.
You’ll race over 5 kilometres in a single scull and if you’re in the top fifty, you’ll be invited back again in February. There will be further testing, trials and training camps in both sweep oar (one oar) and sculling (two oars) throughout the Spring and leading up to the Summer racing season. If you’re below sixteen and fast enough, you can represent your country in the annual GB v France match.
This will give you your first taste of preparing for and racing at the top level. However, what everyone is aiming for is the Coupe de la Jeunesse and the Junior World Championships where the best thirty or so boys and girls from Great Britain will compete on the international stage. It’s not always the case, but if you’ve got what it takes, and you’re old enough, you’ll be in a GB vest within two years. Great Britain won the Beijing Olympic regatta and the last two rowing World Cups. If you’re the best in Great Britain, with the standard of coaching and facilities we have in our country, the likelihood is you’ll be the best in the world. It all starts at your local LYR club.
For more information contact our Performance Coach, Paddy