Saturday, January 12, 2008

Weight (Mine)

"Rowing burns 10 percent to 12 percent more than running and 15 percent to 20 percent more than cycling." In rowing, you catch, accelerate, decelerate, and change direction twice each stroke. You are constantly overcoming inertia. So you are constantly overcoming inertia. So you burn a lot more energy than in an efficient gliding activity like skiing or cycling."
—Fritz Hagerman, Ph.D., Professor, Ohio State University, Exercise Physiology

Okay, the science of all this is out there, and I guess I believe it. But it's inconceiveable to me that I could be logging 80+K weeks of just running and still weigh 236 lbs. (my weigh in this morning).

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