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Benefits of a rowing machine

rowinguk — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:33:44 +0000

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

114-year-old Atlantic rowing record smashed!

rowinguk — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:51:06 +0000

A rowing record that was set in 1896 for crossing the Atlantic was beaten by a staggering 14 days!

The Artemis North Atlantic Rowing Challenge crew left the starting point in New York on the 17th of June and, surviving 10 metre waves, rescuing a man overboard and sighting whales, made it to St Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly on the 31st. 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes later.

Rowing at the London 2012 olympics

rowingmachinesuk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:37:52 +0000

David Tanner, team GBs rowing performance director has set a target today of between four and six medals….the colour of these medals, however, he did not say.

The British team qualified 11 Olympic class boats in the finals of the World Championships held in Poland last August, in the end returning home with six medals.

If we carry on at the rate we are going then we at rowingmachineUK.com have little doubt there will be a few gold medals staying with us after the olympics are over

James Cracknell – Olympic rower, now stable after bicycle accident

rowingmachinesuk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:27:45 +0000

James Cracknell the Olympic rower is now said to be stable after having a collision with a truck near Winslow, Arizona at 5:30am tuesday the 20th of July. The colision is reported to have fractured the gold medalists skull. His helmet took the full force and almost certainly saved his life.

We wish you a speedy recovery James

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rowinguk — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:38:59 +0000

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