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John Reimer John Reimer is offline
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Default Physical conditioning for sailing


"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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I have a gym membership... cardio, weights, nothing fancy. That certainly

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have crew along, they're mostly students, so they do the hard stuff. :-)


I'm VERY new to this, a student of becoming a student.

Re the weights, a hypothetical question. Let's say I'm singlehanding so I
have to do all the hard stuff myself.

I'm assuming that the main upper body muscles worked are your biceps,
lifting, and triceps, pulling?

What's the kind of weight you'd have to be capable of manhandling?