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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

Barry S. Strauss

The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.
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Giving Race Strategy Winning
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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Attention Imagination Sports
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.
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Dawn Race Rivers
Yet what it takes to win races is the ability to reach inside and pull out something to keep you going – no, to go faster – when you have nothing left to give.
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Ability Faster Inside Nothing Take
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Call Cerebral Place Rowing
There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.
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Guts Magic Take Word
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
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Injury Rowing Sports
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction.
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Hard Night Stroke Winning Work
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.
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Attention Mind Sound
The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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Games Humility Taught
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that’s the ergometer.
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Lifting Pain Thinking Weight
Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
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Moving Simple Space
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying.
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Baseball Wings Workout
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves.
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Dark Men Sea
In college, I was an editor on the student daily… To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw only what appeared to be big-boned acolytes who rose at dawn.
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Appear College Editors Rose

Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

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