You may consider rowing as an easy workout because you are in a sitting position….
Get ready to sweat and engage every muscle in your body. Rowing workout burns fat while providing extreme cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance. These days, thanks to CrossFit, rowing is having a moment.
Anthi Kalabogia from “Protypo Rafina Fitness Club”, expained us the multiple advantages of this type of exercise:
- You can work at the highest intensity you like, with the lowest impact on your body
- Stengthens the muscular system, heart, lungs and improves the nervous system
- When performed indoors, the trainee enjoys all the benefits of exercise without being affected by bad weather conditions
Benefits:
- It is a full-body workout that uses 86 percent of the muscles, increases your body strength as well as your cardiovascular capacity
- Burns a lot of calories since the rower offers a combo of strength and cardio training
- Maximases body oxygenation
Many trainees are wrongly consider rowing as an arm workout. Every dynamic rowing pull is like a kettlebell swing or deadlift. This is because you need to activate your center to transfer power from the legs to the handle. So you need to learn the right technique.
Begin rowing from the catch position, with knees bent,torso angled forward from the hip and arms fully extended with fingers curved around the handle.
Initiate the drive with the legs and continue with the back and arms. To go back, extend your arms, let your core hinge forward, then bend your legs.
Personalized Workout:
- Combine rowing workout with body weight exercises as a full body workout. You can focus on:
- Upper body training with push ups and their variations or with horizontal pull-ups etc.
- Lower body training with squats, lunges and plyometric exercises
- Core training with plank, abs etc.
Varvara Solomonidou,Wellness Specialist, Personal Trainer, Seminar & Conference Lecturer, Pilates Master Trainer “AthensTrainers® Ultimate Pilates System®”, Member of Pilates Method Alliance (PMA), Member of European Lifestyle Medicine Organization (ELMO), DNAFit® Certified Trainer, General Manager & Owner of AthensTrainers®
Anthi Kalampogia. Pilates & Fitness instructor. Owner Protypo fitness Club
