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Here is a picture of Rasmussen on the medical check the day before last years tour started. And these guys loose weight during the tour!

Warning: the picture is not pretty!
http://www.cyclingforums.com/attachment ... entid=9055

Rasmussen was the guy who was winning the Tour de France last year but got booted out for lying to his team and doping officials about his where abouts.

Now aren't you all glad you row?

PS how does one embed pictures anyway

Hmmm! he's not on steroids then.

Brian

Nosmo wrote:PS how does one embed pictures anyway

Possibly best not too...

Rowing it is then.

BrianStaff wrote:Hmmm! he's not on steroids then.

Brian

not so quick.

Steroids could help him recovery more quickly. Steroids won't necessarly make you big unless you train to get big: Consume more calories than you burn and do the sort of strength training that adds muscle.

It's also possible that he was using EPO or something else that's out there.

Thanks for posting that picture, Nosmo. It was painful to look at in a concentration camp kind of way but it makes a skinny lightweight like me feel like going to the beach and kicking sand in people's faces. Or at least cylclists' faces.

kirbyt wrote:Thanks for posting that picture, Nosmo. It was painful to look at in a concentration camp kind of way but it makes a skinny lightweight like me feel like going to the beach and kicking sand in people's faces. Or at least cylclists' faces.

Amen brother. Me too. Just don't let the guy get near any cans of spinach....that right forearm look very Popeye-like.

Another aye here.

kirbyt wrote:....Or at least cylclists' faces.

Don't try it with this guy:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/sparen/cipol ... irohj2.jpg

These pictures shows the difference between the hill climbers and the sprinters.

The cyclists actually have great bodies from the waist down. Their butts tend to be even nicer then rowers'.

Nosmo wrote:

kirbyt wrote: The cyclists actually have great bodies from the waist down. Their butts tend to be even nicer then rowers'.

blasphemy!

philrow wrote:

Nosmo wrote: The cyclists actually have great bodies from the waist down. Their butts tend to be even nicer then rowers'.

blasphemy!

Yes but its true. There is a noticeable difference since I've switched to almost all rowing from cycling. Fortunately, according to my wife it is more then offset by the changes elsewhere.

maybe it's because cyclists train for races that last 5hrs+. while your race may last 7minutes. professional rowers dont look like bodybuilders either.

nnn wrote:maybe it's because cyclists train for races that last 5hrs+. while your race may last 7minutes. professional rowers dont look like bodybuilders either.

Are there professional rowers?

Nosmo wrote: Are there professional rowers?

Well, naturally! I hear the pay is crap though, something like -$xx,xxx over a lifetime.

Chris Hoy from Scotland - a track rider who won three golds in Beijing:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_LnoIRCQ5kcY/Rkt ... web003.jpg

Rasmussen is unusual even for skinny roadies.