Ergs Quotes

• When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Mind, Sound, Attention

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• Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Science

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• One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it!

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Motivational, Sex, Team

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• Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. 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.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eight, Swings, Feet

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• Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

  Rachel Cohn

  Ugh

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Just remember we're now in selection. Every piece, every erg, every seat race-they're all recorded, and I notice things

  Mike Teti

  Race, Pieces, Rowing

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• To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.

  Mike Teti

  Guy, Rowing, Hell

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• I have come to the conclusion that rowing alone won't bring top of the line erg scores. The two are really completely different. The motion is, of course, fairly similar to rowing. However moving your own body back and foth on a machine that doesn't move is a challenge that cannot be mastered unless it is trained. Therefore, I believe that people who only row will find it harder to pull scores on the erg that are in the highest percentile.

  Xeno Muller

  Moving, Believe, Two

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• The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

  David McCord

  Life, Atoms, Gone

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• If E is considered to be a continuously divisible quantity, this distribution is possible in infinitely many ways. We consider, however-this is the most essential point of the whole calculation-E to be composed of a well-defined number of equal parts and use thereto the constant of nature h = 6.55 ×10-27 erg sec. This constant multiplied by the common frequency ? of the resonators gives us the energy element E in erg, and dividing E by E we get the number P of energy elements which must be divided over the N resonators.

  Max Planck

  Science, Numbers, Giving

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