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The Ergometer The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile... It's a frustrating machine. It just sits there passively while you beat yourself to death on it. You must approach each test with the seriousness and passion that you would use to prepare to challenge your death. You must prepare -- not to die -- but to battle for your life in each moment with every faculty and power available to you. It's one of those contests between man and machine that draws so many people to its challenge. The erg is a machine that takes whatever abilities you have and reduces them to nothing. There is no such thing as a master of the erg. Although it takes a long warm-up time for an eight to swing, on an ergo such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 140. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.
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