Florida trip with MIT Crew.
Around 4 hours of rowing and some more running everyday. Good exercise, but no energy to lift at all. Might have to cut lifting to 2 days a week when I get back.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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You're in crew? No way? Light or Heavyweight? I finished a season my freshman year with the lightweights.
ReplyDeleteHeavyweight.
ReplyDeleteWhat year are you now? Have you gained weight since freshman year?
I'm a junior. I have gained weight. I weigh around 205lbs now give or take. I had to make weigh ins at 160lbs, and I walked around at 180-185 during that time.
ReplyDeleteWow, why were you a lightweight at 180+? How hard was it to make weight?
ReplyDeleteUnlike wrestling or weightlifting/powerlifting, I thought that being lighter actually conferred a real advantage in crew in that your boat sits higher on the water and is easier to propel. Did you actually try to maintain that big a cut while actually rowing? That just sounds insane...
ReplyDeleteAnd good to see you back Q. 2 days a week is just fine if there are a lot of other stressors in your life (work, crew, etc.).
Well, I was 170lbs when I started, and I was expected to lose the weight. It turned out that rowing made me hungry, and that there is food all over campus. I tried unsuccessfully to loose weight for a year. In the end, I just had to dehydrate myself and shit out stuff with laxatives. I also used a mild diuretic. It was somewhat difficult. I always made weight. It was hard most of all because I was new to losing fat and water-weight. If i knew then what I know now, I could have done both a lot better.
ReplyDeleteSo, I was 180lbs until 4-5 days before the weigh in, and towards the last race or two when I learned a lot about losing weight, I was 180lbs until the night or two before.
To Frank, I'm not sure of the physics behind rowing, but the heavyweights were faster than the lights, always. Heavyweight was a relative term though. The good ones were heavy relative to the 160lb lightweights. The fastest heavyweight was 6' 1" and a little under 200lbs. The taller ones were heavier, but they all had a similar body size to the 200lb guy. You can't really get heavier than that exercising 2x/day for more than an hour each day 6x/week. You were also going all out in every one because the coaches said if you didn't you were weak. They didn't know much.
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