Rowing Machine

When using the rower, it’s more helpful to think about your legs than your upper body.

The name of the machine, rower, tricks us into believing it’s an upper body machine, when in reality, it’s more about your legs than anything else.

When rowing, forget about your arms. Instead, concentrate on pushing with your legs. Just like standing up from a squat or deadlift.

After a big, long push from your legs, then you can row, or pull the handle towards you.

When resetting, or coming back to the start, we need to keep our legs in mind too. Don’t just slide the seat back towards the front following you hands. You want to hinge at the hips. This will reload your legs for the next push once you get back to the starting position. 

This slight mindset shift when rowing, thinking about legs and pushing instead of arms and pulling, can make a big difference. Give it a shot! 

Justin Miner