This Is The Life Of A Rower

"why do you like rowing?"........"I have no clue"

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the look the lightweights give the heavyweights when someone brings cupcakes to practice

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[therowinglife]

So ready for winter training to be over.

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Vespoli Love

Dad: What do you want for Christmas?

Me: Everything on the Vespoli Online Store....

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[sarahfitfoodie]

Work for what you want! Teenshealthandfitness.Tumblr.Com

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[littlerowerthings]

I am really frustrated by our sport when it comes to the erg being viewed as a torture device rather than a helpful tool that people can enjoy. This negative mindset, which is extremely contagious, plagues the sport, preventing athletes from training to their potential and possibly serving as one of the reasons that careers in rowing, at every level, are often so short. My main problem is that everywhere I turn in the rowing community, whether it’s high school guys and girls, college guys and girls, or even National Team hopefuls, I hear of people dreading the erg. I’ve never heard about a cross country runner ‘dreading’ a track workout. True, basketball and football players may dread running wind sprints or other such conditioning activities, but I can live with that because those are not endurance sports. In other words, when strength, power, endurance, mental toughness, and monotonous activity are the bread and butter of your sport, it seems wholly inappropriate to create a culture that disdains such fundamentally important and central activities. Read the full article here

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if I have to look at this dang machine one more time this winter......

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When someone's going for my erg before the workout

[thecoxlife]

When my coach gives us an insanely hard workout

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when we got a fancy shmancy new speed coach

[aniggainrio]

FEEL THE POWER! Pic by : Hamish Burson | Photography

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Rowing… the one sport who’s athletes question their sanity on a daily basis. Who’s athletes can never quite explain why they get up every morning and subject their bodies to some of the most brutal workouts ever created. A sport that teaches people to “live in the pain”. To except the fact that...

[therowinglife]

[bowseatswag]

I told my double partner I'm getting her one of these on February 14th

[icantihavecrew]

Stress.

What Normal People Stress About:

School

Tests

Homework

Boys

Clothes

What I Stress About:

Rowing

Erg Tests

Seat Racing

Lightweight weigh ins

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