As an athlete Robert Sens was a three time World Champion picking up medals in both the Men's Pair and Men's Quad before turning his hand to coaching. Coaching within the German Team Robert achieved excellence coaching the Lightweight World Champion Jason Osborne and now find himself as the Head Coach of the Austrian Rowing Federation a move he made very recently.

In this interview with Martin Cross he discusses what the move has been like, how does the new role compare to what he was doing before, what are his thoughts on the current trend towards high rates, centralised training systems, pausing at the finish and much much more.

This video is the second of three parts.

0:00 When you look at other crews at big events, who do you admire/find interesting?
2:15 Why do you think crews are rating higher at the top level?
4:00 The Australian 4- in 2017/18 stood out as being an early adopter of high rating, but didn’t do as well last year...
4:50 What about the way the Australians paddle pausing at the finish when they paddle?
5:40 You’ve not been tempted to try a pause at the finish with your crews?
6:20 Ian Wright has reportedly brought in a lot of side by side training for the Australians, what’s your view on that?
8:10 What crews stood out for you at the 2019 World Championships?
8:50 The German Mens 8+ - how has their technique developed?
10:40 It looks very tight between the Germans and the Dutch now?
12:05 How much do you use the ergometer and do you use Concept2 or RP3?
13:30 What’s the balance between testing and mileage?
14:05 You talked about Magdalena improving, is that over 2000m?
14:20 Do you look at erg scores or boat movement most?
15:35 Your top 4 would expect to be sub 6 and pushing sub 5:50?
16:10 The RP3 is slightly easier to get the numbers?
16:50 Do you get much time to train yourself?

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