Too Big To Cox

[[old] 2Big2Cox]

Hello everyone Ok I’m a high school rower I just finished my first season and I was mainly a coxswain because I hurt my knee I love rowing and I love being a cox. BUT I weigh 138 pounds my coach likes his coxswains about 100-128. I know I don’t have far to go but I am having a lot of trouble so I came here

[[old] ancho]

At your age, you shouldn't be worrying about weight in order to cox. If you coach says you way too much, forget coxing and row!<br />Don't know how bad your knee is, but ask a pphysician, start gently, be consistent, and you'll see you improve a lot.<br /><br />Good luck and have a nice row!

[[old] Cran]

If you want to cox then tell your coach you are gonna cox.<br /><br />I'd put a 138lb serious cox in a boat over a 128lb numpty head any day.<br /><br />If he says you need to be 128lb just tell him you'll more than make up for the extra 5kg, and he should give you a chance to prove it.

[[old] 2Big2Cox]

My knee is almost normal now i still have trouble with 6 counts. i want to do both my 2k score was ok for a novice, no body lol it was 2:13.3. I love the water, i love the boats, I love the people and there is nothing in the world i would rather do. And would not kill me to lose like 10 pounds Dose anyone know where i can get a used home Erg for like under 100 bucks?

[[old] DIESEL]

<!--QuoteBegin-2Big2Cox+Jun 13 2005, 09:10 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(2Big2Cox @ Jun 13 2005, 09:10 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->My knee is almost normal now i still have trouble with 6 counts. i want to do both my 2k score was ok for a novice, no body lol it was 2:13.3. I love the water, i love the boats, I love the people and there is nothing in the world i would rather do.  And would not kill me to lose like 10 pounds  Dose anyone know where i can get a used home Erg for like under 100 bucks? <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />how tall are you? <br /><br />Finding an erg for under 100 is impossible. Ergs have an insane retail value. Used "C" regularly fetch more than 500 on ebay. If you can find one, more power to you, but if you do, go play the Lotto ASAP, for you're one lucky SOB.

[[old] 2Big2Cox]

I can use the crew teams ergs for free plus that place is like home to me. Untill my next trip there I can run I hate running. oh im 5'3 I am one of the shortest girl on my team.

[[old] DIESEL]

Oh, OK, I was wondering if you were super tall, then getting down below 130 wouldn't be the healthiest thing to do. <br /><br />At your height - unless you are super muscular, you can safely get down to about 110-115. <br /><br />Here's what to do: go to a gym or to your local health center and get your bodyfat tested. <br /><br />Without that info, we can only give you half-assed advice. <br /><br />But yeah, if you want to be an elite cox, you're going to have to bring the weight down. Sorry. <br /><br />Isn't there a lower weight limit on coxies? I heard they were going to institute it because they were reported cases of anorexic coxes... Yikes! Talk about dedication to the crew. Just promise me, you won't resort to such drastic measures. <br /><br />good luck, <br />D

[[old] 2Big2Cox]

I’m not fat but I’m no string bean. I do have a lot of muscle. I LOVE crew but I would never stop eating or do anything dangerous. My doctor told me that I should not try to be 120(she thinks I might do it the stupid way). I am giving up sugar, Fast Food, and deep-fried stuff. I have lost weight before by just eating less and drinking more water. I want to get on of those Body Fat-test done soon. My real goal is to cox and row. That’s what I do now but I’m too heavy to Cox varsity. We have an amazing coach (He is the best) but he is the kind that puts the light coxswain over the better one. I have never ran into anything or run into a sand bar, this other coxswain has run into me during a race I was in 1st too she ran me off the course we ended up with 3rd, she has ran into 2 boats, was DQed from a race, and she runs into sand bars. He picked to take her to Canada over me.

[[old] NurseBobbi]

<!--QuoteBegin-DIESEL+Jun 14 2005, 01:15 PM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(DIESEL @ Jun 14 2005, 01:15 PM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Finding an erg for under 100 is impossible.  Ergs have an insane retail value.  Used "C" regularly fetch more than 500 on ebay.  If you can find one, more power to you, but if you do, go play the Lotto ASAP, for you're one lucky SOB.  <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br /><span style='color:green'>Mine was free. I bought my Model B from the onwer of my old gym when he closed it down in the summer of 2001. He asked for $75. (Clearly, he didn't know about C2 resale value!) My husband wrote the check, but it was never cashed. </span><br />

[[old] akit110]

[quote=DIESEL,Jun 14 2005, 01:15 PM]<br />[quote=2Big2Cox,Jun 13 2005, 09:10 PM]<br />Finding an erg for under 100 is impossible. Ergs have an insane retail value. Used "C" regularly fetch more than 500 on ebay. If you can find one, more power to you, but if you do, go play the Lotto ASAP, for you're one lucky SOB. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />I saw a Model C on Craig's List NYC for only $250 just a couple of months ago. Basically had been used a couple of times and had been kept in storage for over a decade. I found Craig's to be definitely cheaper than Ebay since the pool of interested erg buyers is much smaller. <br /><br />Anyway the $250 erg was posted mid-week and I felt too lazy to go after work, double park on a busy NYC street, and stuff it in my small car and then haul it back to my place and find some place to store it in my already crowded apartment. Of course, I already have a model C, mind you. <br /><br />But generally, yeah, the resale on C2 rowers is very high for used exercise equipment. In contrast, I had to unload my Nordictrack Achiever for about a 1/14th of what I paid for it originally!!!

[[old] seat5]

I am 2Big2Cox and also 2Dumb2Cox! I had to do it just once because it was before cuts were done and there were more female rowers than seats, plus a shortage of cox's that day...and since I ran the 6 miles to the river instead of taking the team bus I was last to get there, so I had to cox the guy's varsity 8 for a workout. First of all I was 5'11" and 155, and had no *&**( idea how you steer the boat, and no one thought to show me either. Maybe they thought everyone just knew how to do it. To tell you the truth, I still don't really know how it works. Anyway, we took a leisurely and circuitous route that went this way and that down the Connecticut River, now swerving left, now swerving right, swinging away like a floating pendulum. It was like a random slalom course. After a while I almost figured out how to go straight, but ran into more trouble. I found it both enjoyable and distracting to watch the oarsman pulling in synchronicity--the rythym, the symmetry, the raw power-- so enjoyable and distracting, in fact, that I didn't notice until it was rather too late that I had steered the boat right into the shore, almost perpendicular to the shoreline. This did not make anyone in the boat very happy, since, as it was early March, the water had iceburgs in it, and the guys had to get out into icewater waist high in order to keep the boat from scraping up on the beach. <br /><br />Needless to say, I was not required to cox ever again, once it was discovered that I definitely had more Brawns than Brains! After that experience I've always really respected coxswains, especially those that train as hard as the oarsman. Usually, pound for pound, they are just as strong. Plus, they know how to go straight in a boat....