New Bedford, Boston rowing group partner in new venture Nov 20, 2009
I bring those rowing machines with me into the hallways, and I talk with athletic directors and coaches, to let them know that we aren t looking for their top athletes, we want anyone. Chyrel Gallagher, 60, a Community Rowing member, said she got involved in the sport five years ago. (Boston Globe)
Rowers Erg-a-thon workout has purpose beyond training Oct 17, 2009
Passersby stopped to watch the fluid motions of the athletes hard at work on three ergometers, or rowing machines, as part of the sixth annual Erg-a-thon fundraiser. As their teammates took turns erging, members of the crew team, dressed in their red-and-blue uniforms, explained the sport of rowing to interested spectators. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Brookline rowers swing into action for annual Erg-a-thon Oct 10, 2009
The team will row on stationary rowing machines, or ergometers, from 1-3:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 11, in front of the Devotion School on Harvard Street. The fund-raising event helps to underwrite coaches salaries and the purchase and maintenance of equipment. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Beckwith Boathouse Dedicated Sep 19, 2009
It features a large ergonomics room that will house the team's rowing machines, four large boat bays, a state-of-the-art rowing tank that features moving water at various training speeds, and locker room and medical training space. The building also features a beautiful river view terrace and community room that can be used by University and community groups for gatherings. (Hawkeyesports.com)
Beckwith Boathouse Dedication Friday Sep 18, 2009
The boathouse, designed to withstand flooding, features a large ergonomics room that houses the UI rowing team's rowing machines, four large boat bays, a state-of-the-art rowing tank that features moving water at various training speeds, locker room and medical-training spaces, and a terrace and community room that can be used by university and community groups. In addition to the UI rowing team, the building will house the UI men's club rowing team and the Old Capitol Rowing Club, a... (Hawkeyesports.com)
24-7 Health Club and Tanning Salon ... Sep 15, 2009
There are treadmills, elliptical machines, stationary bikes, and rowing machines. The health club also has a women s-only circuit room, an area designated for heavy lifters, a dry sauna, a tanning salon, the ActivTrax program and Total Solution s Thin and Healthy diet program. (Suite101.com)
My other life Aug 23, 2009
That meant rowing machines, weight lifting and yoga. Last weekend, she participating in her first major rowing event: the U.S. Rowing Masters National Regatta in Camden, N.J.. (Albany Times Union)
Women's Rowing Team To Hold Tryout Information Meeting Sept. 9 Aug 22, 2009
This will include learning how to use the rowing machines with proper technique and learning how to row in an actual boat ... The second practice will be on campus on the rowing machines lasting 1 hour. (Goaztecs.com)
Hope is a river Jul 13, 2009
In his third-floor laboratory, he is replicating the workouts of avid oarsmen who pound away on indoor rowing machines inside boathouses along the river. But in Taylor s lab, there s a key difference: His rowers are paraplegics. (Boston Globe)
Lions ready for Loftus Jun 25, 2009
Players have been wearing "altitude masks" when training on rowing machines and static bikes, simulating breathing conditions at 7,500 ft, he said. "You can see the pain on the players' faces.". (iAfrica.com)
High hopes of Iran's women rowers May 25, 2009
" Over the last two years that support has included four foreign coaches. The boats are Chinese. The blades look suspiciously like they are from a top American manufacturer - strange, as sanctions make it hard to buy American-made goods in Tehran. They tell me they picked them up second hand. In the gym, there is a small fleet of rowing machines. Further battles Sara Khoshjamal Fekri (L) will represent Iran in Taekwondo in Beijing For Iranian sportswomen, it has been a slow, steady battle. In... (BBC News)
Rowing Machines for Indoors Exercis... May 23, 2009
Rowing Machines for Indoors Exercise and Fitness. Rowing Machines for Indoors Exercise and Fitness ... Rowing machines have different resistance mechanisms, control panels and other features. (Suite101.com)
Westford Academy to compete in State Championship Rowing Regatta May 20, 2009
The crew meets at Westford s Forge Pond Beach where it stores its two eight-person and two four-person rowing shells, six ergs (rowing machines) and a 10-person training barge. There are 22 student-athletes on the crew. (Westford Eagle, MA)
Masconomet students get the skinny on fat May 7, 2009
Owners from the newly opened Middleton fitness center, BodyCo, took the center spot on the gymnasium floor to let fairgoers test out their rowing machines. Instructor Steve Tambini said the new business offers unparalleled ways to achieve a full body exercise. (Boxford Tri Town Transcript, MA)
West Roxbury YMCA making healthy lifestyle choices fun Apr 28, 2009
She had set up two rowing machines in the gymnasium, exercise machines that few children had seen before or used. It was a way to introduce children to rowing, and the machines fit almost anyone and provide a full body workout. (Rsolindale Parkway Transcript, MA)
A beauty with brawn Apr 18, 2009
Curious, she tried the lat pull and rowing machines, and liked the feeling. At 15, she read her first Muscle and Fitness magazine and was hooked. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
WATCHWORDS: Celebrate, Remember and Fight Back Apr 10, 2009
Starting at 10 a.m., Dave Nock and his crew will take over the Plaza in Market Square with rowing machines. The participants will be rowing the distance of the Boston Marathon on Patriots Day and the public is encouraged to show their support. (Amesbury News, MA)
Orange takes to water after winter indoors Apr 1, 2009
Over the mid-year offseason, from November to Marc 000033C3 h, the Orange trains daily in Archbold Gymnasium, which houses stationary rowing machines. While other elite programs in warmer areas of the nation are privileged with year-round outdoor training, Central New York winters push the Orange's offseason practice indoors. (Daily Orange, NY)
Basketball: The free throw is stuck in time Mar 5, 2009
Widespread improvement over time in any sport, he said, depends on a combination of four factors: physiology (the size and fitness of athletes, perhaps aided by performance-enhancing drugs); technology or innovation (ranging from the advent of rowing machines to train rowers to the Fosbury Flop in high jumping); coaching (changes in strategy); and equipment (such as the clap skate in speed skating or fiberglass poles in pole vaulting). Those factors can help explain why swimming records... (International Herald Tribune)
At the free-throw line, the stats just stand still Mar 4, 2009
Technology or innovation (ranging from the advent of rowing machines to train rowers to the Fosbury Flop in high jumping). Coaching (changes in strategy). (News & Observer -- Sports)
Bears Take First and Second At C.R.A.S.H.-B's Feb 24, 2009
C.R.A.S.H.-B's is a one-day series of simulated races, performed on rowing machines, and unlike many crew events, allows individual rowers a chance to take the spotlight. Morgan and Wheeler took advantage of that, as they went 5:57. (Brownbears.com)
