Challenge your cardiovascular endurance with the rowing!

The rowing, on this occasion, is not any type of back exercise that requires a barbell or dumbbell for its execution. Yes it is true, that this exercise effectively works the lats when we exercise it, but in a very different way than when we did it with the dumbbell or rowing with a barbell. After all these considerations about what's not rowing, now we will clarify where this peculiar exercise is framed. The rowing, is a lethal cardiovascular exercise, which collects for its execution a huge amount of muscle fibers, both the upper and lower body.


Unlike the static bicycle or the elliptical, this peculiar exercise involves many muscles of the upper body in an intense way, such as the back and the biceps. In addition, it gives a new dimension to cardiovascular exercise, because you will never have suffered a pain similar of a hard rowing session.

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How is the rowing performed?

To perform this exercise, we must first of all (and although it sounds obvious) have a rowing machine that allows us to perform the exercise with guarantees. Place the feet on the support intended for this purpose and fasten the locks to prevent them from detaching once the movement has started.

We will flex the legs, bend the back and stretching the arms, we will hold the bar with both hands. It is not easy, the first time, to do the movement well, because we will have to carry the bar towards our hips as we push hard with the legs, with the trunk and arms backwards. It is important that the trunk and legs help, otherwise we will crush the arms before time.

Once the bar is at the height of our hips, we will not stop its movement hitting the abdomen, but we will try to get the bar to slide through our body as we move the body backwards and once it reaches the height of the neck, the body will accompany the path back to the bar.

In this way, we will optimize the inertia of the bar, making the work easier and more suffocating at the beginning.

What muscles does the rowing work?

The rowing, as we indicated previously, is an exercise that involves a large amount of muscle fibers throughout the body, consolidating as one of the most complete movements that exist (at the cardiovascular level, of course):

Latissimus dorsi
Brachial biceps
Brachioradial
Frontal deltoids
Quadriceps
Abdominals
Lumbars
Rear deltoids
Serratus
Teres major
Middle trapezius
Upper trapezius
Soleus
Gastronemicus
Femoral biceps
Flexor muscles of the wrist