I knew one guy in all my years rowing who had a non lower back injury. He had rib cage fracture, but it's because he was rowing lightweight and let his chest muscles get so weak relative to his back that he broke his own ribs when pulling.
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Replying to @NewtypeApologia @leepavelich and
And mind you this was at the very elite level, he made the olympic team a few years later. This does not happen to normal people training as rowers.
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Replying to @NewtypeApologia @eigenrobot and
My gym doesn’t have a sled to push so at some point I’m gonna have to take the Concept 2-pill
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Replying to @leepavelich @eigenrobot and
I have one at home but I never use it. I spent too much of my life being tortured on one to willingly sit on it now.
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Replying to @NewtypeApologia @leepavelich and
My only advice is to never set the flywheel to any number above 4. Higher numbers open the vent more and slows the spin. That makes your next pull start from a slower position, and after thousands of strokes that's how you over do it on your back. 3-4 is what water feels like.
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Replying to @NewtypeApologia @eigenrobot and
Yeah I think that’s about what this broad said. “Keep it mid-range”https://youtu.be/SmGGElhphJY
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Replying to @leepavelich @NewtypeApologia and
Probably generalizes well My HS swim team consistently placed #2 in our conference, behind the Olympic feeder program This was nice because we worked hard enough to be good but there was never any delusion that we would actually be good enough to be seriously competitive
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Replying to @eigenrobot @NewtypeApologia and
The American approach of specializing early means they would dominate the junior Olympics. But the Soviets with stronger fundamentals would dominate the senior-level Olympics (talking weightlifting specifically). This might not be historically true, but it's thematically true.
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Replying to @leepavelich @eigenrobot and
I wonder how much it matters that we're specializing kids before we know what the optimal sport is for their body and build. I'm guessing a lot.
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Replying to @NewtypeApologia @eigenrobot and
I think another big part is: Dad: "Little Timmy's gonna be a Major League Baseball pitcher!" Kid after 3 years of grinding: "I fucking hate this..."
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