Category Archives: Blog

In the books – and on this site – we urge people to get decent gear, as a motivator and for its own sake. There’s also something to be said for taking decent care of it…and even developing a...

It’s a stinky gray day, here on our lake in New Hampshire. Warm but a steady rain and it’s going to go on all day. It is, in other words, a perfect day to do the Stinky Gray Weights....

One of the horrors of rowing camp is that they take careful movies of your rowing and then carefully disect it, a frame at a time, in front of everyone. EEK. It’s odd, but remember…the point of a good "kedge"...

In general, people over 50 are not going to get into races of any kind and I don’t blame them. Our object is to get in decent shape and live decent lives, not to become athletes, at this late...

Having some goal…some kedge…in place most of the time is an awfully good idea. I recently found that I did not qualify to row in the Head of the Charles sculling race this fall, and the zip went right...

There is a tremendous temptation, on traveling days, to lay off your exercise. Like this morning…I have to drive to Boston, starting at 7:30, pick some one up and drive to Maine. No time to work out, natch. Well, that...