"Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the……" — Barry S. Strauss
"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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19 Quotes by Barry S. Strauss
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what…
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever…
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If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury…
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Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
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So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge…
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Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only…
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Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies…
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The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost…
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When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores…
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I…
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The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how…
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More Aerobics Quotes
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If I want low-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate. If I want high-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate again.
— Dennis Miller
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Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance…
— Jane Fonda
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Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to…
— Kathy Griffin
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Im not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics - yoga, swimming, running - but…
— Ryan Kwanten
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I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind
— Peter Steele
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I'm Latina. I was born with high heels. We crossed border in high heels. We were running from immigration...I can…
— Eva Longoria
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I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think,…
— Robin Williams
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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Aside from performing in 'Peepshow,' I do yoga once a week and I like Pilates. I'm more into toning exercises…
— Holly Madison
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In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
— Megyn Kelly
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As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I…
— Kelly Bishop
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If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you…
— Tracy Anderson
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