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Tuesday
- Visited Olin and Uris library stacks to read up more on the biomechanics of rowing.
- So far, most of the position, velocity, and acceleration curves for rowing that we have are all from Kleshnev and his newsletters. I want to see what others have to say on the subject and do comparisons.
- Cornell surprisingly doesn't have that many hardcopies (books) on the subject matter, but we did manage to find some.
- The Journal of Sports Medicine & Physical Fitness yielded an article on the muscle groups involved at each particular stage of rowing.
- A German book titled Leistungsanalyse Bei Rudermannschaften by Erich Schneider looks promising.... if we know how to read German. It does, though, have a great bibliography page that I've been looking through (for English articles) for more sources.
- Rowing A Scientific Approach by J.G.P. Williams et. al. also looks promising.
- More sources. Most of these I will need to scour through Cornell's databases because databases require $$ to view unless I click it through Cornell first. But Get It! Cornell works inconsistently. :\
- A nice librarian at the cirulation desk (Sarah E. How) helped me out in searching for the books. Luckily, she's also a rowing enthusist and told me that Ithaca its own share of Olympic rowers! Andrew Byrnes and Caryn Davies (men's and women's 8 ... gold in 2008 Beijing). They both rowed for Cascadilla Boat Club.