Performing the same cardiovascular training day in and day out will certainly continue to maintain good health, if you want considerable and consistant gains in heart and lung health, not to mention fat loss, then you need to challenge your body with something new! Rowing is the perfect choice for adding variety, cross training orputting a fire under your fat loss efforts. Benefits of Rowing When we train our body, we are asking it to respond to the stimulus we are All In A Row applying and to adapt in a way that will make us more capable the next time we For several reasons, rowing is a great option for increasing results with your attempt the same activity. training: The less capable we are at an activity, the more adaptation and energy we It’s a total body workout! Rowing will expend in the earlier stages of exercises most of the major muscle developing the skill. This is where we groups, including legs, arms, back, will use the most energy to both do the abdominals and your backside. Most of activity and to repair, or adapt, our body the stroke power is generated by your legs, then your upper body adds in the after we have completed the activity. rest. The longer we persist at an activity, the better we become and the less energy Improved flexibility! Rowing uses a we need to input. This adaptation range of motion, across larger joints, causes our body to become more that is different to many other cardio energy efficient, which is not what we exercises. For some rowers, this will cause a stretch during the rowing want for a fat loss goal. movements. December, 2010 Issue
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