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anybody row?

post #1 of 102
7/7/08 at 10:20pm
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i'm getting pretty bored with my gym/cycle routine and am thinking about switching it up and joining the local rowing club. i'm wondering how effective it is as a form of exercise/muscle developing. i'd consider joining a rec team, too, as that looks pretty fun, but i'm really looking for the physical benefits of it.
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post #2 of 102
7/7/08 at 10:34pm
here is a short article from menshealth.com about the benefits of rowing as opposed to using a treadmill. this for the machine, however. hope this helps. http://www.menshealth.com/cda/articl...0013281eac____
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post #3 of 102
7/7/08 at 10:44pm
I don't row, but I'd love to do it. Awesome sport.
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post #4 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:00am
I had a friend in high school who was always in relatively good shape. Football player, decent muscle size, relatively low BF%. Our freshman year of college, he went to Purdue and joined the Crew Team. When I saw him at a basketball game over Christmas break, he was in incredible shape. Dude was ripped, with an even lower BF%. I asked him what he'd been doing as a routine and all he said was rowing.

That's the most exposure I've had to rowing. He said all he did was row, no other exercise beyond that, so I'd have to assume it's at least a decent and at most a very effective way to develop muscle.
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post #5 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:05am
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Originally Posted by kwilkinson View Post
I had a friend in high school who was always in relatively good shape. Football player, decent muscle size, relatively low BF%. Our freshman year of college, he went to Purdue and joined the Crew Team. When I saw him at a basketball game over Christmas break, he was in incredible shape. Dude was ripped, with an even lower BF%. I asked him what he'd been doing as a routine and all he said was rowing.

That's the most exposure I've had to rowing. He said all he did was row, no other exercise beyond that, so I'd have to assume it's at least a decent and at most a very effective way to develop muscle.

Don't you think this is weird stuff to know about a male "friend"?
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post #6 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:07am
I was on crew in college. It was a bit like riding a bike and lifting weights at the same time. One guy from our boat went to the Olympics. Aside from an amazing workout there is a special feeling you get from being on the water. There is also a wonderful sense of team work when you race in an eight. It isn't for everyone. Some might find a single or double shell more to their liking. But for the right person it is a tremendous experience to race and to be a part of a team..
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post #7 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:08am
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Don't you think this is weird stuff to know about a male "friend"?

Maybe. It's also pretty weird to know the asspaghetti eating tendencies of an internet acquaintance, but I get by with it well enough.
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post #8 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:15am
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Maybe. It's also pretty weird to know the asspaghetti eating tendencies of an internet acquaintance, but I get by with it well enough.

I'm just saying, in high school my friends and I were talking about our girls' bra sizes and which ones wore thongs, you were discussing a dude's body fat percentage.
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post #9 of 102
7/8/08 at 12:21am
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I'm just saying, in high school my friends and I were talking about our girls' bra sizes and which ones wore thongs, you were discussing a dude's body fat percentage.

We were workout partners.


However, not the kind of top-bottom work out you're inferring from the post.
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post #10 of 102
7/8/08 at 7:34am
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I'm just saying, in high school my friends and I were talking about our girls' bra sizes and which ones wore thongs, you were discussing a dude's body fat percentage.



Rowing is great.
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post #11 of 102
7/8/08 at 7:54am
In the film, Indochine, they have a nice rowing sequence in the beginning.

It looked vaguely intriguing as a kind of hobby.
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post #12 of 102
7/8/08 at 8:54am
Rowing (along with cross-country skiing) is probably the toughest cardio workout you can do. In addition, as several have mentioned, it builds muscle. I've never rowed on water, but I have a Concept II rower in my garage. It's the same rower you'll find in every gym in the country. There's a little technique involved, but since it's so tough physically (and you can't talk on a cell phone while doing it), few people do it.

If you have the opportunity to row on water, take advantage of it.
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post #13 of 102
7/8/08 at 9:06am
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nice, this is the kind of info i was looking for.
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post #14 of 102
7/8/08 at 9:20am
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Originally Posted by kwilkinson View Post
I had a friend in high school who was always in relatively good shape. Football player, decent muscle size, relatively low BF%. Our freshman year of college, he went to Purdue and joined the Crew Team. When I saw him at a basketball game over Christmas break, he was in incredible shape. Dude was ripped, with an even lower BF%. I asked him what he'd been doing as a routine and all he said was rowing.


Kind of along the same lines when I first started undergrad there was a guy in my program that I became friends with. We'd often be in the gym together and he was in pretty good shape. Muscular with good definition. In our second year, he joined the rowing team and blew up pretty quickly after that. He was in incredible shape.

It's bloody hard work though.
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post #15 of 102
7/8/08 at 3:20pm
Give it a shot! I bet you will get a nice workout, and it'll probably be fun too.
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