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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.

Barry S. Strauss

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Rowing

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
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 Winning
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.
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Numbers Trials
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
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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Rowing
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 Moving Workout
Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

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Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.
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Brine Dark Foam Gushed Mighty Terribly
The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.

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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won’t wrong by using strategy.
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Race Winning
The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport – there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age – stirred his blood.

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The romantic craved seeing if the quirkiness of the sport – there is after all, little practical value to oarsmanship in the postindustrial age – stirred his blood.
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Postindustrial Practical Rowing Simple
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.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

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
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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Hard
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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Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing

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There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
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Cerebral Rowing
There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.

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There’s a word for what that takes and the word is not magic, the word is guts.
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Guts Take Word
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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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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Figure Hardest

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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