For reference, American collegiate lightweight rowers must weigh no more than 160lbs and the boat average must be 155lbs international lightweight rowers must weigh no more than 72kg and the boat average must be 70kg weigh-ins are typically done the afternoon before major races in college international weigh-ins tend to be more strict, though the exact timing varies. In hindsight, it still baffles me that for a sport where our weight was a major factor, nutrition was literally never covered. There was still a lot of cotton apparel - synthetic fabrics had really just started to take hold, and were unquestionably better. I'm mostly skeptical of new technology and "improvements" - and have become even more skeptical as I've gotten older. In the late 90's, rowing, like many endurance sports, was fairly old school. But it turned out I had a knack for endurance sport, and I really gravitated to the work:reward structure of endurance training. I stood around a lot and tried to catch rubber balls thrown really, really fast at me. My best sport in high school was lacrosse, where I was a goaltender. Unlike the multitude of swimmers and middle-distance runners who find their way to rowing, I was a team sports player. But I wasn't just a novice to rowing I was a novice to endurance sport more generally. I was a walk-on to the Princeton lightweight rowing team, and - like many rowers (though less and less as the sport grows) - a total novice. But the actual roots of how that came to be trace back even further, to my first discovery of "endurance nutrition" (for lack of a better term) in college. My own history with First Endurance goes back to 2008, when I used EFS and Optygen during my training for - and subsequent race at - the November edition of Ironman Arizona.
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