Snorvey wrote:I'm toying with getting an exercise machine before winter (there's a pile of Tesco vouchers lying around that need to get spent)
This is because if I'm bone idle in the summertime, I'm positively hibernatory (?) in the winter. Even if it's only 20 minutes of high intensity stuff, it's better than nothing.
So....I quite like the idea of a rowing machine because it seems to work more muscle groups. I have a turbo trainer for the bike, but it's freezing in the shed over wintertime and it's too big for the house. I need to get home from work and then be able to jump straight on it before I get settled down for the night.
So, any thoughts or suggestions? Rowing v exercise bike....or something else.
I think it depends what you are after. I use an exercise bike every other day, in fact in about an hour's time I'll be...
I've used a rowing machine too but I've had an operation on one of my shoulders and although it's now pretty good I've decided that rowing is probably not a good idea.
Which parts of your body do you want to exercise? You are obviously going to exercise more parts of your body with a rowing machine, you don't get much work on your upper body and only a few muscles from riding a bike. But I find the cardio I get from a bike to be good for me and I now have legs like Atlas
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