Dec 1, 2006

Let's get tough on calorie bruning at the Iron Oarsman, new monthly membership!

OK, that is it. I believe that we have reached a good number of interested indoor rowers to make a monthly membership possible at the Iron Oarsman.

Now you can row all you want during scheduled workouts for $130 a month. This is going to be great for burning off the extra holiday calories. (A side note: I still lost a pound over Thanksgiving break. I am planning to download WW on the GO to my smart phone.)

In case of families we are introducing the monthly membership of $160 a month unlimited scheduled workouts.

If you can't make it to the Iron Oarsman, don't worry. We have 7 Indoor Rowing Workout DVDs that you can watch at home on your own rowing machine. Those DVDs are available at www.ironoarsman.com.

All the very best and see you soon.

XENO
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 23, 2006

Thanksgiving, Surfing, Weightwatchers, and Rowing

This morning we went to the beach here in Newport Beach. It was fun to watch the surfers enjoy the waves and I thought how much they would all enjoy rowing to pick up more arm power to catch more waves.

I weighed in on Wednesday after one week of Weightwatchers and I am excited to say that I lost a bunch of weight. I now am 261.7. I made sure that I did eat too much before tonights Thanksgiving dinner.

Tomorrow the Iron Oarsman is open again and I will be rowing a bunch of calories off my body. Remember, there is a holiday challenge which motivates you to row either one hundred or two hundred thousand meters until Christmass.

Later
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 19, 2006

Ok, I will not keep it a secret.

On Wednesday I started Weight Watchers again. You might wonder why... It is simple, I can eat more than I burn off when I row at the Iron Oarsman. The realistation came to me when I brought one of my pets to the Vet. There was an industrial scale to weigh large animals... I took the decision to climb on the scale and.... I was pushing the scale to 270. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Ok then, back to points and weight watchers. I will inform you on Wednesday whether I have lost any weight. I think I have, because after the second day of weight watchers I already felt that I had lost a hundred pounds. Stay tuned. Happy Holidays.
XENO
PS: For those of you who know what weight watchers is about. I get to eat 30 points per day. My allowance is 35 points per week. Today I blew a truck load of allowance points because my mother came from Europe with a whole bunch of Swiss sweets. My rowing at the Iron Oarsman I will log on the WW website as moderate intensity, even though I believe it is worth a few more points. The goal after all is not to make me eat less.
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Hello Everyone. Sometimes I find something that is totally unrelated to Indoor Rowing, but too good not to post. If you are French, please don't be

offened.

>>"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
>>without your accordion."
>>--Norman Schwartzkopf
>>------------------------------
>>"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something
>>about it."
>>--Marge Simpson
>>------------------------------
>>"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the
>>German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
>>--Regis Philbin
>>------------------------------
>>"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not
>>dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True,
>>you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why
>>this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses
>>of whisky, I don't know."
>>--P.J. O'Rourke (1989)
>>------------------------------
>>"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging
>>actress of the 1940's who was still trying to dine out on her looks
>>but doesn't have the face for it."
>>--John Mc Cain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
>>------------------------------
>>"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein?
>>Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He
>>is French, people."
>>--Conan O'Brien
>>------------------------------
>>"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help
>>us get Saddam out of Iraq After all, France wouldn't help us get
>>Hitler out of France either."
>>--Jay Leno
>>------------------------------
>>"The last time the French asked for 'more proof ' it came
>>marching into Paris under a German flag."
>>--David Letterman
>>------------------------------
>>"Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman
>>who lives in Canada."
>>--Ted Nugent
>>------------------------------
>>"War without France would be like ... World War II."
>>--Unknown
>>------------------------------
>>"The favorite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is
>>one that says 'First Iraq, then France.'"
>>--Tom Brokaw
>>------------------------------
>>"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted
>>more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs
>>than the Nazis?"
>>--Dennis Miller
>>------------------------------
>>"It is important to remember that the French have always been
>>there when they needed us."
>>--Alan Kent
>>-----------------------------
>>"They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To
>>prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a
>>white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house."
>>--Argus Hamilton
>>------------------------------
>>"The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven
>>we've found truffles in Iraq."
>>--Dennis Miller
>>------------------------------
>>"Raise your right hand if you like the French, ... raise both
>>hands if you are French."
>>--Unknown
>>------------------------------
>>Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they
>>entered the city in WWII?
>>A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?
>>-----------------------------
>>"Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer
>>France in WWII? And that's because it was raining."
>>--John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv
>>------------------------------
>>The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced
>>after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level
>>from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender
>>and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a
>>recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively
>>disabling their military.
>>------------------------------
>>French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney
>>(AP), Paris, March 5, 2003
>>The French Government announced today that it is imposing a
>>ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the
>>day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just
30miles
>>outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army
>>garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists..
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 3, 2006

Newport Aquatic Center Juniors rowing at the Iron Oarsman



I had a great time on November 2 coaching the boys crew of the Newport Aquatic Center. We did a lot of one leg rowing technique and emphasized hanging the upper body while driving the leg.
Over and out for now.
XENO
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Dec 1, 2006

Let's get tough on calorie bruning at the Iron Oarsman, new monthly membership!

OK, that is it. I believe that we have reached a good number of interested indoor rowers to make a monthly membership possible at the Iron Oarsman.

Now you can row all you want during scheduled workouts for $130 a month. This is going to be great for burning off the extra holiday calories. (A side note: I still lost a pound over Thanksgiving break. I am planning to download WW on the GO to my smart phone.)

In case of families we are introducing the monthly membership of $160 a month unlimited scheduled workouts.

If you can't make it to the Iron Oarsman, don't worry. We have 7 Indoor Rowing Workout DVDs that you can watch at home on your own rowing machine. Those DVDs are available at www.ironoarsman.com.

All the very best and see you soon.

XENO
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 23, 2006

Thanksgiving, Surfing, Weightwatchers, and Rowing

This morning we went to the beach here in Newport Beach. It was fun to watch the surfers enjoy the waves and I thought how much they would all enjoy rowing to pick up more arm power to catch more waves.

I weighed in on Wednesday after one week of Weightwatchers and I am excited to say that I lost a bunch of weight. I now am 261.7. I made sure that I did eat too much before tonights Thanksgiving dinner.

Tomorrow the Iron Oarsman is open again and I will be rowing a bunch of calories off my body. Remember, there is a holiday challenge which motivates you to row either one hundred or two hundred thousand meters until Christmass.

Later
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 19, 2006

Ok, I will not keep it a secret.

On Wednesday I started Weight Watchers again. You might wonder why... It is simple, I can eat more than I burn off when I row at the Iron Oarsman. The realistation came to me when I brought one of my pets to the Vet. There was an industrial scale to weigh large animals... I took the decision to climb on the scale and.... I was pushing the scale to 270. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Ok then, back to points and weight watchers. I will inform you on Wednesday whether I have lost any weight. I think I have, because after the second day of weight watchers I already felt that I had lost a hundred pounds. Stay tuned. Happy Holidays.
XENO
PS: For those of you who know what weight watchers is about. I get to eat 30 points per day. My allowance is 35 points per week. Today I blew a truck load of allowance points because my mother came from Europe with a whole bunch of Swiss sweets. My rowing at the Iron Oarsman I will log on the WW website as moderate intensity, even though I believe it is worth a few more points. The goal after all is not to make me eat less.
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Hello Everyone. Sometimes I find something that is totally unrelated to Indoor Rowing, but too good not to post. If you are French, please don't be

offened.

>>"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
>>without your accordion."
>>--Norman Schwartzkopf
>>------------------------------
>>"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something
>>about it."
>>--Marge Simpson
>>------------------------------
>>"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the
>>German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
>>--Regis Philbin
>>------------------------------
>>"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not
>>dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True,
>>you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why
>>this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses
>>of whisky, I don't know."
>>--P.J. O'Rourke (1989)
>>------------------------------
>>"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging
>>actress of the 1940's who was still trying to dine out on her looks
>>but doesn't have the face for it."
>>--John Mc Cain, U.S. Senator from Arizona
>>------------------------------
>>"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein?
>>Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He
>>is French, people."
>>--Conan O'Brien
>>------------------------------
>>"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help
>>us get Saddam out of Iraq After all, France wouldn't help us get
>>Hitler out of France either."
>>--Jay Leno
>>------------------------------
>>"The last time the French asked for 'more proof ' it came
>>marching into Paris under a German flag."
>>--David Letterman
>>------------------------------
>>"Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman
>>who lives in Canada."
>>--Ted Nugent
>>------------------------------
>>"War without France would be like ... World War II."
>>--Unknown
>>------------------------------
>>"The favorite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is
>>one that says 'First Iraq, then France.'"
>>--Tom Brokaw
>>------------------------------
>>"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted
>>more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs
>>than the Nazis?"
>>--Dennis Miller
>>------------------------------
>>"It is important to remember that the French have always been
>>there when they needed us."
>>--Alan Kent
>>-----------------------------
>>"They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To
>>prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a
>>white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house."
>>--Argus Hamilton
>>------------------------------
>>"The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven
>>we've found truffles in Iraq."
>>--Dennis Miller
>>------------------------------
>>"Raise your right hand if you like the French, ... raise both
>>hands if you are French."
>>--Unknown
>>------------------------------
>>Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they
>>entered the city in WWII?
>>A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?
>>-----------------------------
>>"Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer
>>France in WWII? And that's because it was raining."
>>--John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv
>>------------------------------
>>The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced
>>after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level
>>from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender
>>and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a
>>recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively
>>disabling their military.
>>------------------------------
>>French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney
>>(AP), Paris, March 5, 2003
>>The French Government announced today that it is imposing a
>>ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the
>>day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just
30miles
>>outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army
>>garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists..
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.

Nov 3, 2006

Newport Aquatic Center Juniors rowing at the Iron Oarsman



I had a great time on November 2 coaching the boys crew of the Newport Aquatic Center. We did a lot of one leg rowing technique and emphasized hanging the upper body while driving the leg.
Over and out for now.
XENO
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.