The benefits of excercise on a rowing machine are not just limited to the sport of rowing. Sportsmen and women from all types of sports use rowing machines, if your aim is to get fit, lose some weight or just to generally improve your health then a rowing machine could be the perfect way for you to do it.
Professional sports men and women ranging from those competing in Formula 1 to athletics, from sailing to triathlons all find rowing machine benefits to improve their performance.
Main Rowing machine benefits for specific areas of the body:
Legs
When using a rowing machine the legs have to go through a full extension and compression with each stroke made. The stroke on a rowing machine is “low impact” compared to many other activities that excercise the legs muscles such as running, meaning this excercise is a lot easier on the knees. The leg muscles excercised include the thighs, hamstrings, calves and buttocks.
Core muscles:
Using a rowing machine uses your core abdominal and back muscles (for those who weight train this is where the “reverse row” excercise came from).
Upper body:
almost all upper body muscles are used when rowing, your shoulders, back and to a lesser extent your chest are used allowing you to strengthen and tone.
Fitness and the heart and lungs:
Due to the fact that excercise on a rowing machine uses a wide variety of muscles and muscle groups improved fitness is a resultant benefit. Cardiovascular health (the health of the heart and lungs) has also been shown to
