Tips for rowing machine workout

Shawn | Mar 14, 2011 |

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The rowing is the best exercise especially for people having cardiovascular problems. The light and smooth rowing motion of the body provides a full body exercise stretching your lungs and improving your respiratory process.

Having a good rowing machine workout focuses on your core and stretches muscles of your arms and legs. However one should remember to make sure you warm up before start exercising. It is due to these benefits of rowing exercise that it it has become essential to have a rowing machine workout in your house. The body sculpture 3200 programmable rowing machine is an ideal machine for this one.

Selecting a rowing machine should be done after considering all the options available, you should probably go for one which is frequently used by the rowing teams or in the public or club gyms. Before starting any exercise, it is essential and requisite to consult your doctor and take his advice. Only then you should go forward with the exercise. Also you should be aware if any type of heart or lung conditions that might prevail in your body.

After you have the doctors consent you may start the exercise. In the beginning it is recommended that you start slowly. Most of the machines are equipped with the resistance adjuster. The machine also calculates the time and distance giving you an exact readings displaying how much you have worked out. Do not bother about the time in the beginning your motto at that time should be letting your body get used to the exercise and the machine. However you must note down number of strokes per minute.

The moment you have got used to the exercise you can now increase the pace of your exce4rcies. Yu can then increase your SPM i.e strokes per minutes gradually and increase your distance with 50 meter increments. You can increase the resistance level with a 250 meter distance increment. Keep repeating the procedure till you reach a thousand meters.

Once you reach 1000 meters you can now strengthen your resistance levels. Row in 1000 meter intervals until you manage to keep a steady SPM, time and constant distance. After you have achieved this you can go to further increase your distance in 250 meter increments. Go further to improve your performance by increasing the SPM, time and distance limits. A fast rower can easily achieve a thirty to thirty five SPM and complete the distance in the proportionate manner.