Faster with Bill Chambers
Hosted by Bill Chambers · Bill Chambers
4.9from 43 ratings
- 57
- Episodes
- 3
- Transcribed
- 43
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Faster with Bill Chambers
Long-form conversations with the best people in rowing — coaches, sports scientists and athletes — on how to go faster. Hosted by Bill Chambers, for masters rowers who want to train with more intent. Guests have included World Rowing's Executive Director, Olympic gold medal coaches, and the sports scientists behind national programmes. Get the free Faster newsletter — the frameworks and tools I use: www.whchambers.com
- Publisher
- Bill Chambers
- Category
- sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 May 2020
- Latest episode
- 17 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
3 of 57 episodes have a transcript.
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Two Scientists Who Ruined My Best Excuse
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Does a Power Meter Actually Make You Faster?
16 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The hidden cost of endurance - What every masters rower need to know about AFib
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The Two Scientists Who Ruined My Best Excuse
Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And from the word go, they were going slower. And then another experiment, we linked the ratings of perceived exertion, which is how you feel about the exercise, And we used an experiment where we said people exercised at a rating of perceived exertion. I think it was about 14. And we put them in the heat. And from the first pedal stroke, they were slower. So the brain was already saying, this is too hard for me now. I'm not going to go as fast as I did in the cold. So, I mean, that really proved that there's this anticipatory component. So that anticipation is the brain making all those calculations for the current situation, environment, So as an example, if I'm not that fit, I haven't been training through winter, I've got a long run ahead of me. […]
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