Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?

[AndyD]

I have a cousin who has to be one of the most highly trained medics in the country, about to retire.
For exercise he chose a rowing machine. Also cycled to work.

Isn't swimming meant to be the near perfect way to health, exercising all parts of the body while being partly supported?

[taiwan_girl]

@AndyD said in Where do our exercisers work out and what do you do?:

I have a cousin who has to be one of the most highly trained medics in the country, about to retire.
For exercise he chose a rowing machine. Also cycled to work.

Isn't swimming meant to be the near perfect way to health, exercising all parts of the body while being partly supported?

Rowing machine FTW!!!

I have also hear that swimming and rowing are the two best all-body workouts for exercising that you can do.

[Horace]

It’s important for resistance training to be full body. But for cardio, whatever gets your heart going is fine. For someone who does no resistance training, I guess a full body cardio would be more important, just to get some work for all the muscles.

[Horace]

I signed up with a high priced gym today, just to get away from the crowds of the low price one. 105/month rather than 15, but it'll be worth it.

They have a bodyfat tester called Styku which takes a 3D image of your body and correlates it with a training set of Dexa scans, using machine learning. It's supposed to be pretty accurate. I get a free scan on oct 8, then another free one 45 days later. The club is running some sort of contest to see who can get fit in 45 days. The regular price for the scans is $60.

[jon-nyc]

Mine is $50 a month. Even planet fitness is $30/mo here.

[89th]

I’d like to get a rowing machine. Maybe in a year or two. My biggest issue is finding the time and then fighting off the snack/drink demons at 10pm when I finally get a minute to myself!

My neighbor has a rowing machine he said to try before you buy as it’s a great workout but can also make your butt sore if you don’t have the correct posture.

Love swimming, it’s such a great workout and the waterproof headphones makes it fun to listen to music while swimming.

[kluurs]

Back when I was a regular at a club in Chicago, they had a former Olympic rower who taught the classes on the rowing machine. She got me to move from doing heavy pulls to lighter tension and faster pulls with better form.

[taiwan_girl]

The interesting thing about rowing is that if you have proper technique, only something like 25% of the power comes from your arms.

The most well known indoor machine is the "Concept 2". From what I have heard/read, the fly setting should be at around 4-5 and the stroke every minute should be somewhere around 20-22.

I usually just watch Asian dramas while rowing. LOL The concept 2 had a holder for an Ipad or similar. Makes the time go quickly.

[kluurs]

[Mik]

I'm starting to change my cardio sessions to HIIT - one minute normal, 30 seconds fast and furious. It supposedly has a brain preserving effect. I'll see if i can find the article.

[Mik]

https://www.aginganddisease.org/EN/10.14336/AD.2024.0642