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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…

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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 it takes…
The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and…
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that,…
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into…
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you…
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the…
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the…
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.…
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as…

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The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver… — David McCord
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To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row. — Mike Teti
Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things — Mike Teti
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice… — Barry S. Strauss
Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound… — Stefan Kieszling
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national… — Brad Alan Lewis
Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet,… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele
If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is… — Max Planck
Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh. — Rachel Cohn
Every time I hear a song that reminds me of my ex I have a strong erg to punch the radio. — Ambri Bright
For once this Pentecost has come, beloved, those who pass beyond that day and still insist on giving the Light to the… — Pearls Of Wisdom

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