DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES IN ROWING

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Present-day sport at the high performance level and especially for the professional athlete, involves the expertise of many different kind people. Participation involves huge amount of money, and is time consuming. In order to select proper candidates as athletes, to carry out proper training procedures, or to select suitable competitors to take part in competition, the coach and his co-workers need to apply several diagnostic tools (Erdmann 1997). Selection of suitable competitors in rowing takes into account different approaches. These are as follows: morphological, physiological, biomechanical, psychological, mental, health, and others.