Rowing

I hear you. I'm working from home today and my six year-old is off school... so no long jogs for me outside. Instead it's a workout in the downstairs gym, and then I'll take cell phone to the nearby soccer field and play some softball and soccer with the kidlet. No wind so perhaps the RC plane... not any workout for me but I'll land on other side of field and she runs like a maniac to go retrieve.

Have to find ways to be active despite life conspiring to prevent it...

Having dedicated home gym helps. No laundry hung on the equipment... no putting stuff hidden away and taking it out... The Concept rower was a nice addition.

 

Those are great times!

 

great Bloody job! Next open gym ,I will have the chance to see what my time is. Last time I did it, time was 7:31. I try to keep my 500m between 1:45:1:50, my goal is under 1:40

 

When I was 18 and still living at home with my parents, they had a family gym membership. My folks would go every day, I went 3 or 4 times a week, and my sister went once.

I hated using the treadmills, so the gym staff suggested the rowing machine as a good alternative. I'd set it up for 2000m and then would try to beat my previous best time - I used to keep a notebook with all the dates and previous times. Then I went home and plotted them on my computer to see a nice trend line (and accompanying equation) of progress!

It'd be need to find my old notebook (might be with my stuff at my parents house) and my Excel file (on an old computer, possibly thrown away) - as I can't remember exactly what my times were. If I was going to buy any home cardiovascular exercise equipment, I'd probably go for a rower.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

I have one too. Bad news - it's never fun. No matter your skill level the concept 2 just sucks it out if you. It never ever gets easy, ever.

The plus? It kicks the **** out of running

 

I just did crossfit last night where we ran 1 mile sprint, then Dead Lift for one minute straight. Take a 3 min rest and then 1600 meter row and Kettle Ball swing for 1 minute. I was pretty pleased with my row time of 6 min for 1600 meters.

 

I'm reviving this because I just purchased a Concept 2 model B. Price was right . So for those rowing one year ago who's still doing it , GT ? For those who are, how do you keep it interesting ?

It's a great workout. I do a quick tabata of 1m on 30s rest in morning before work .

 

Very familiar with HIIT and I use it to row and other exercises. On my cross fit days I start and end the WOD with rowing ....


I'm very interested to see how much it improves my cardio.

 

GT. how has iy benefited you when you were using it regularly?

 

Let me know if you start back ...