That's a really interesting theory Joy. (Because I'm short,) I just checked my calf sans muscle and yeah...there's no muscle. Am I supposed to tense up my leg? There's something if I do.
I suppose that shorter people would have slightly more calf muscle than a taller person if you either took an average of about thirty people or found two people who did the same amount of exercise on a regular basis. It'd be kind of unreliable if you had a half-arsed tall person and a little rower. But if that person was a rower and little (little enough), they'd be a cox. But do coxes (lol) have to exercise as well? I guess so, or else they'd just be rotting away in a corner during training.
That's definitely a ramble. Tl;dr?
I found this really really funny, I love Wikipedia:
Cox-less boats
A boat without a cox is known as a coxless or "straight" boat. Besides the obvious single and double, straight pairs and fours are the most common coxless boats at regattas in the US. Because of their speed and lack of maneuverability, eights without a cox are very rare and dangerous.
Regatta wins
Coxswains are traditionally thrown into the water after a regatta win.
oh i just love talking about rowing
ReplyDeletehey brigitte, can you do me a favour? ask maddie palmer - or any rower, but i know her best, ask them why they row with long socks (aren't they annoying?) and why does their cox wear a lifejacket?
i have a feeling i've posted about this before..
well my theory came from the fact that 3 little (cox-sized) people at my school have amazing calves. one is a cox, one was a cox and one has never been a cox... but they all have muscly calves
and coxes do have to exercise, but not as much because obviously they don't do any exercise sitting in the boat. but they do cross training and everything else and ride the bikes while we scull (in a single - i don't know how much you know about rowing brig, sorry)