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Miracle at Oxford (rowing movie). I found myself rowing to match their pace at the end!

I don't know ...I don't buy into the tricks to avoid eating food while trying to keep people from noticing. I have the same issues with my family, and I have found that it is much less stress if you are up front about your weight, and what you want and don't want to eat. I am normal weight and have ...

By information freely available on the internet, I mean general nutrition, recipes, and calorie info sites. We are both tracking what we eat on Sparkspeople.com (which is free), and losing weight steadily. He was on the Weight Watchers Core Plan which is basically just eating healthy foods in proper...

On Itunes, Nike has pre-arranged playlists at a variety of beats per minute. Obviously, you can't choose your own songs though.

I went in the opposite direction last week, and created a playlist of mellow music, mostly Eluvium and Jim Brickman. I rowed for 45 minutes with my eyes closed, visualizing myself out on the water alone. It was great, I felt good afterwards and I actually rowed faster when I wasn't looking at the mo...

My husband attended Weight Watchers for a little while, but felt that it was a waste of money. Other than weigh-ins, the meetings consisted of dissemination of info available for free on the internet. Nothing really new or special. It seemed to be targeted to the extremely uninformed.

I would imagine that comparing an erg to a real boat would be like comparing a treadmill to running on the open road, wouldn't it? Inside, no matter how well the machine simulates the real thing, you still have an absence of wind resistance (and on a treadmill, easier foot turnover.) In my running d...

An alternative to the vaseline would be a product called Body Glide, marketed to runners to prevent chafing. It comes in a stick like deodorant, and doesn't feel as icky as vaseline.

Not to get too personal, but what kind of bottoms are you wearing when you row? The first couple of times I was on the rower, I wore spandex pants and underwear, and a small wrinkle where the underwear bunched up and got sweaty was enough to cause two very painful blisters. Although my husband got q...

Sasha, what kind of progress have you made in the last couple of months? I just joined a week ago and read the entire thread at once, but you left me hanging! Where are you at now with your rowing?

Sasha, what kind of progress have you made in the last couple of months? I just joined a week ago and read the entire thread at once, but you left me hanging! Where are you at now with your rowing?

If you only experience the numbness when rowing, I'd have to agree that you probably have the straps too tight, or a combination of straps and shoelaces too tight. There is an artery on the top of the foot (where one takes the pedal pulse) that is easily compressed. If the numbness was caused by a b...

I'm sure I must sound like a complete idiot, but bear with me; the only exercise/sport I've ever done is run, which I have been doing for about 25 years. I know if I run for 60 minutes, the only thing that changes the distance I cover from day to day is how fast I run. My mind is having trouble conv...

Okay, wrong terminology. If I row at a rate of 30 spm for 30 minutes, will I cover more meters at damper setting 10, than at damper setting 1?

This may come too late to do you any good, but I would recommend the marathon training plans on www.runnersworld.com. They have detailed workouts to take you from beginning to end, and for most of the major marathons, they have pace groups led by seasoned runners. The book "4 months to a four hour m...