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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.

Barry S. Strauss

As if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.
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Aerobic Baseball Combine Endurance Pterodactyl Weight
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Call Cerebral Place Rowing
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
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 Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to move to the same beat. The athlete wanted to check what has been described as the ultimate workout.
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Eight Individual Moving Sports Workout
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
Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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Games Humility Taught
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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Art Fire Hard Work
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
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
It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.
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Intelligent Sea Sports
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
A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.
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Alive Figure Hardest Perspective Thinking
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.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Hard Night Stroke Winning Work
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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