Andriy's training

Sorry for not writing for a long time, I needed to travel to Italy with my Dad to sort out some stuff.

So far I have done few gym trainings and few runs over holidays, but that is not very important, as there is a much more interesting stuff :)

I have signed for the rowing in Kiev and I had my first training today. Obviously, because I came back from Italy on Saturday I could not have them before :)

I have talked with the coach and we agreed to have around 4 training per week. I will not be rowing in 8's as they will not manage to find a place in the boat as crews are fixed, but there might be an opportunity to row in pairs. According to my coach this can only make things better, as it is easier to switch from pairs to 8's. I tend to trust him, but we will see :)

Regarding the training program— we did a lot of fitness stuff today and I do feel like I am exhausted. In addition to that, although we did not row on the water, they have rowing pool, which is an awesome thing! :) Something like this:
http://www.northeastern.edu/leadershipcampaign/images/rowing.jpg

It was left from USSR times and does not look as sexy as the one on the picture, but it is awesome as coach can literally stand half a meter from you and point you out all your mistakes. I did around 30-40 minutes of rowing in such pool today.

From technical elements—I was focusing today on getting the blade out of the water fast enough and to the right height and keeping that height throughout the recovery. Obviously, this was done under close attention from my coach, which is really good.

Overall, I am honestly very excited, the facilities are not that new, but they are good and they are better in many ways than what we have. Blades are rubbish, but the training room itself is spacious, with windows and with enough fresh air.

In addition to training- I need to do some running to get there and back and it takes around half an hour. Today's training was 2 hours itself, so overall I would say it turns out to be quite intense.

I am not sure if I will be able to submit erg scores, as we obviously tend to row in the rowing pool than to do ergs. However, I will write how many training I do and what we do and I will also keep a diary of the suggestions that my coach is making as I have honestly heard a lot of new stuff today.