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ROWING
EXERCISES
Using your Rowing Machine will provide you with several benefits:
• It will improve your overall physical fitness, strengthening the heart &
improving circulation as well as exercising all the major muscle groups:
the back, waist, arms, shoulders, hips & legs.
• Tone your muscles & in conjunction with a calorie-controlled diet: it will
help you lose weight. Rowing is an extremely effective form of exercise.
The Basic Rowing Stroke
• Sit on the saddle & fasten your feet to the pedals using the straps. Then
take hold of the rowing bar.
• Take up the starting position, leaning forward with your arms straight &
knees bent as shown in (Fig 1).
• Push yourself backwards, straightening your back & legs at the same time
(Fig 2).
• Continue this movement until you are leaning slightly backwards, during
this stage you should bring your arms out of the side. (Fig 3). Then return
to stage 2 & repeat.
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
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Fig. 3