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Originally Posted by secondhandloser
Seriously? I mean, dude, I'm trying to be nice amongst all your attempts to call BS on my progress, but,
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It's freakin' NCAA. And technically, the season just started, 15 hour per week practice limit out-of-season. |
Not calling BS on your progress at all, seriously. You look great; you really do.
Men's rowing has the IRA, which is not sponsored by the NCAA (look at that web site; they are all women. Many men's coaches are trying to get an NCAA sponsorship, but unless something has changed in the last month or so, and I haven't been paying attention, Gladstone et. al. have not been entirely successful). Women's rowing has the NCAA championships. Women's rowing (outside of the Ivies) largely exists because of football / Title IX. If men's rowing is considered a varsity sport (which would then mean that you have to work according to NCAA rules because of your athletics department, not because of the NCAA) at your school, you're lucky-- those programs are few and far between, and slowly disappearing. But, I am still surprised that as a varsity sport, you don't have access to a strength and conditioning coach like your competitors do. And if you DID have access to one, you'd not be on a bulking program at this point in the year (or, for that matter, in the fall. And in the winter, you'd presumably be erging so much that you'd be hard pressed to put on that much mass. You must eat a LOT!).
I'm not really intending to argue with you, as much as I'm surprised that you are allowed to lift like that and still row for a DI, varsity program. Again, I think you've made fabulous progress; I'm surprised that you are able to do that well, independently, while still rowing at the DI level.
There are a lot of DI programs-- like, Boston College-- that are CLUBs, but operate as a DI program and race at the IRA (BC women would race at NCAA if they were invited). Hell, I rowed DI in college for a club that achieved varsity status the year after I graduated (big lawsuit was threatened during my four years there as the school was not in compliance with Title IX), and I say that I "rowed DI" because most people either don't care or don't know the difference. Since then, I've coached DI for years, and repped boats all over the country, so I'm a little more anal about the distinction, because on the competitive level the distinction is HUGE.
Wanna tell me where you row?