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PC67
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I'm giving up swimming for a few months. Trotting down to the pool when I don't absolutely have to doesn't make sense to me as I've a gym 50 yards from the house. I'll start again in Jan or Feb next year, with maybe the odd swim before then just to keep my hand in.
However, I've been meaning to give the rowing machine a go as part of my all round training.
Intuitively it makes sense as it works both arms & legs in a meaningful enough way, and also is a good CV workout. I might do 30 mins before my Saturday morning spinning class and once or twice during the week.
It'll hardly be of harm, but does anyone know if the rowing machine uses similar muscles as a swim?
However, I've been meaning to give the rowing machine a go as part of my all round training.
Intuitively it makes sense as it works both arms & legs in a meaningful enough way, and also is a good CV workout. I might do 30 mins before my Saturday morning spinning class and once or twice during the week.
It'll hardly be of harm, but does anyone know if the rowing machine uses similar muscles as a swim?
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I am over the next few months (til the new year) pretty much only going to be doing weights,rowing and the thread mill..though I will be continuing with the club swims to make sure my swimming doesn't go shoddy
Make sure you get someone who knows what there doing, either a rower or good fitness instructor to show you the correct technique otherwise you end up not reaping the rewards.
Lots of rowers use road bikes to train on as is uses similar muscles, so inversely rowing should be good for the bike leg.
Hope this helps.
BFC
however, if you want to use to supplement swimming specifically all thats been said before is spot on. But you could do an exercise which is done in the boats called a slide build.
1) start off arms only rowing with straight back no body movement
2) arms and body, focus on rocking over with no leg movement
3) add quarter slide
4) half slide
5) 3/4 slide
6) full slide
This is a warm up but if you spend about ten minutes doing just arms and back quite hard would be really beneficial for developing triceps, lats, rhomboids(I think), trapezius and others which I think are all used to a large degree in swimming. hope this is useful.
Ed