New Zealand rower Eric Murray, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, designed a training program for Asensei to benefit Movember. (Courtesy of Asensei)
New Zealand rowing teammates Eric Murray and Hamish Bond—often known simply as the Kiwi Pair—won two Olympic gold medals, eight world championships, and a streak of 69 races over eight years that only ended with Murray’s retirement in 2017.
Murray also broke four world records for indoor rowing. Though he logged countless hours on ergs—in rowing terminology, an indoor rowing machine is known as an “erg”—he said was never given any technique instruction on them, just the coaching mandate to log certain distances and times.