What's your favourite cardio machine?
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In winter my bike goes on the trainer so I guess that's a "cardio machine", a close second in my C2 rower.0
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stairmill! and biking, and hiking.0
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What's your favourite cardio machine?
For me, I would have to say the rowing machine as it is low impact but it also recruits both upper and lower body muscles.
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What's your favourite cardio machine?
For me, I would have to say the rowing machine as it is low impact but it also recruits both upper and lower body muscles.
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I hate to disagree with a trainer, but this time I do.
Properly done, it's predominantly leg strength that powers the stroke.
Certainly, it's not anywhere near as efficient or progressive as weight training, for building leg strength. I'd never argue that.
But 1000+ reps of bodyweight** leg press, done routinely, does not achieve "minimal" leg benefit.
Optimally, bodyweight is not fully on the seat: That's doing it wrong. And it's what most people at gyms do, among other sub-ideal details.
** Bodyweight + share of boat weight/water-friction, on water1 -
Stair mill. Fiendishly hard but less taxing on my hips than running. Also, the arc trainer type ellipticals (the manual ones where you adjust the incline with a stick on the side, with big range of motion).
Years of erg sprints in college make me instinctively loathe the rower, but it’s my favorite for adding in to my light weight HIIT days.0 -
I like rowing machine and stationary bike. I also like fast walking on the treadmill (I can't run..)0
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