Not long ago, Bethany Ericson was out of sorts. A friend recommended she try rowing. “I’d never rowed. It sounded intimidating,” she writes. “But the website suggested that rowing could change lives. ‘Sign me up,’ I said.” OnlyAGameNPR
in Brookline, Massachusetts, I figured she thought of me as the avid, outdoorsy mountain climber I used to be and had not noticed that, beyond her social media view, I'd totally fallen out of shape and then out of sorts.I'd never rowed. It sounded intimidating. Getting up sounded intimidating lately, but the website suggested that rowing could change lives."Sign me up," I said.
The studio is cozy, with wood beams, Women's March posters and chalkboard notices for challenges that support local charities.Bethany Ericson and trainer Bryan Fuller at the Power Rowing studio. Bryan pushes everyone with military volume and drive, but then quietly hands someone who is coughing a lozenge, loans another a book for their kid or tells a goofy joke when someone's struggling. He watches his clients' rowing form carefully, stays with new members as they learn and looks out for everyone's health in general.With proper form, indoor rowing uses about 86% of your muscles. A couple months in, I could feel about 84% of them most of the day.
And the exercise was helping me sleep better. I tried to come in no matter what I felt like. I told myself I could suck if I needed to. I just had to show up.Around the time I became notorious in the rowing studio for actually rowing right out of my sneakers, I learned that Bryan was notorious for more than being a tough but kind trainer. A year after he started rowing in that veteran's program, he became one of the few Americans to have rowed across the Atlantic.
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