Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.
Barry S. StraussSo to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.
Barry S. StraussA boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.
Barry S. Strauss