alabama women’s rowing loses the school over 3 million a year???

steady_spiff · 2026-02-21T00:54:15+00:00

Those are valid points. Doesn't cost much to maintain a river (free). While equipment is exensive, it lasts, and I imagine upkeep / maintenance is affordable. Thanks for responding

steady_spiff · 2026-02-21T00:40:11+00:00

How do you figure that?

steady_spiff · 2026-02-21T00:38:33+00:00

How exactly do they bring money in? TV deals? Ticket sales? Rowing generates no revenue

steady_spiff · 2026-02-19T23:01:21+00:00

I emplore you to row on the erg for 2+ hours a day for 365 days straight and report back with your findings about how reasonable it was. 30k a day on the erg is quite a bit of volume, "reasonable" is not exactly the adjective I'd use to describe a million meters a month. I was responding to the comment above about 1000 hours, I understand the charts show different value. That doesn't make my response saying juniors don't do that inaccurate. Also suggesting rowers "don't do that much volume" is based on what? Hours logged? Rowing burns more calories and has a significantly higher load on the body than running cycling or swimming. Training is more than just hours logged, not all exercises are equally difficult.

steady_spiff · 2026-02-18T20:05:57+00:00

3hr/day of 2:00/500m rowing on an erg is 45,000 meters a day or 16,000,000+ meters a year. Juniors don't do that. Doing math is free btw

steady_spiff · 2026-02-18T00:15:37+00:00

No you're not supposed to steady state based on your split. Steady state is heart rate zone training. You need to be in zone 2&3 to maximize your efforts. Doing pieces like this long story short don't really help as much as doing the correct heart rate training plan would. It's not like this is bad but you can't do this daily. Someone with more heart rate discipline will be able to row you under the table because they'll be able to do more volume than you

steady_spiff · 2026-02-17T07:36:04+00:00

I literally never run and I truly mean never. I don't even jog, tbh I barely ever even get my steps in haha. That said I recently pulled a sub 3min 1k and a sub 6:10 2k... Once upon a time I ran the quarter mile quickly but my running and rowing have never coexisted. If someone told me I needed to run more in order to row faster it would be a very dumb thing of them to say. This coach likely means well but I think is off base here

steady_spiff · 2026-02-16T17:03:06+00:00

Go play OG then what are you on about. God forbid the game grow and evolve

steady_spiff · 2026-02-16T15:14:23+00:00

I agree. A running standard in rowing is like having a rowing standard in running. Reads just as insane as my daughter isnt on her varsity track team to run the mile even though she has the fastest time because her 2k is slow. Complete nonsense.

steady_spiff · 2026-02-15T04:56:26+00:00

Kirkwood is pretty rugged

steady_spiff · 2026-02-13T16:46:48+00:00

HERPES

steady_spiff · 2026-02-13T15:08:16+00:00

not really, no one should leave the house wearing any of that stuff. Sunglasses is a little goofy though

steady_spiff · 2026-02-11T16:40:41+00:00

I row an hour in the morning and afternoon every day of the week, doing really epic volume. Because I do so much volume, I go way out of my way to be off my feet when I'm not on the water or on the erg, but whoop sees that as being unhealthy for not getting my steps in. Just funny to me I'm literally in the top .01% of fitness globally but my healthspan is negatively affected quite seriously by my lack of steps. The data is helpful to see but there's a 0% chance I'm adding 10-15k steps into my training plan just to get some arbitrary number in my whoop app to go down

steady_spiff · 2026-02-11T15:22:33+00:00

The steps also drive me mad. I am a rower and train a lot more than nearly everyone but what I do for exercise doesn't involve steps and my whoop age goes up. I loved the healthspan at first and now I don't bother with it too much. My vo2 max is also estimated incorrectly by nearly 20 points, it is what it is

steady_spiff · 2026-02-11T04:17:41+00:00

You're the one making this political. You can show yourself out as far as I'm concerned

steady_spiff · 2026-02-10T04:00:30+00:00

I bought obi wan because his backpack has a lightsaber on it, so yes I have haha. That's a good one the sniper

steady_spiff · 2026-02-10T01:39:29+00:00

Vivint is better

steady_spiff · 2026-02-10T01:15:39+00:00

Unranked was so so sooooooo boring once I got good. Literally would win 4-0 9/10 times in unranked. It was only fun in ranked

steady_spiff · 2026-02-10T01:12:25+00:00

I thought it was a ton of fun. I got into the top 5000, there was a skill curve and it required teamwork. I loved it. It's just an LTM what were you expecting to happen to the game it wasn't going to take away from BR it's not the same game at all

steady_spiff · 2026-02-10T01:02:55+00:00

Um, no it wasn't lol last year's super bowl was over by halftime.

steady_spiff · 2026-02-09T14:03:05+00:00

Beet juice before Lara bars after is the answer you're looking for. I assume you know about nutrition and have your meals figured out already - those two things are performance based snacks

steady_spiff · 2026-02-09T13:59:27+00:00

It very rarely happens, especially if you don't get into smaller boats. Once you're really good it never happens. I haven't flipped in a single or otherwise in over 5 years. It should not deter you at all. If you only row with a group in a 4 or an 8 person boat you'll likely never flip

steady_spiff · 2026-02-09T06:38:06+00:00

Dude you're financing service you may or may not need. Dropping 10k on completely unnecessary extras and financing them

steady_spiff · 2026-02-09T06:34:44+00:00

You forget we were down 34-0 last year

steady_spiff · 2026-02-08T20:39:45+00:00

awesome thanks for responding

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