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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.

Barry S. Strauss

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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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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

Baseball Wings Workout
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
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 oars game me power but also taught me humility.

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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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Games Humility Taught
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
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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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 Pterodactyl
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
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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Faster Nothing Take
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
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
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.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Appear Editors
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
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
You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

BARRY S. STRAUSS

You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

Boat Feel Grit Toughness
Ergometer is Greek for ‘work meter’
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Greek Meter Rowing
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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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.
BARRY S. STRAUSS

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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