This episode is brought to you by Armored Haven, full-scale security for any size business. In just six minutes of time, a small, slender wooden boat powered by eight men will cover 2,000 meters on the water.

Each man will consume roughly 8 liters of oxygen per minute,

whereas the average healthy adult male can only consume about 4 liters per minute. When they're

done, the men in the boat will have exerted the same amount of energy as having played two

full-length college basketball games back-to- back. In all this in under six minutes.

When you think about it, there's not a lot of glamour in rowing crew.

It's a sport that requires intense physical discipline,

a unique combination of raw stamina and power,

and the mental toughness to push through excruciating pain.

For those who row, pain marks only the beginning of the race.

Beyond the physical, the sport requires a high degree of intelligence

and an almost mystical ability for eight men to work in perfect harmony for six minutes of total exertion.

Sure, you're on a body of water, but mostly you just stare at the back of the guy in

front of you. One guy in front faces the others and gives the cadence. As anyone who's ever sat

upon the rowing machine at the gym can attest, even one minute at a moderate level of exertion

is enough to leave you completely gassed. One minute at full effort for the uninitiated, on the other hand,

will make you want to puke.

As the famous boat builder and crewman, George Yoman Pocock once said,

quote, in a sport like this, hard work, not much glory,

but still popular in every century,

well, there must be some beauty which ordinary men can't see, but extraordinary

men do, end quote. Pocock had devoted himself to the perfection of building boats and the men who

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