If you ' ve joined an Ivy league rowing program to work on your glamor muscles so you can get a new Tinder profile picture , I highly suggest you quit and head to rfitness . This is a phenomenon that has really bothered me coming from a program with a large number of walkons who really have no allegiance to the sport or drive to become quality oarsmen . Rowing programs shouldn ' t become glorified gyms . If your scores on the erg are getting better , you ' re getting into better cardiovascular shape , and you ' re performing well on the water , you should be happy that shits gangbusters . But if you ' re coming home from practice everyday disappointed that you aren ' t seeing bigger biceps in the mirror , you need to reevaluate your priorities because you ' re taking a roster spot from someone who may be passionate about rowing . The program is also spending money and time on you under the facade that you want to become an athlete that will positively represent their university at national regattas . If someone told me I had to look like a preying mantis with with tree trunks for quads to become successful , then fuck me up Frankenstein because thats what it would take