Week 1 Fun Friday 2000 Meter Rowing Challenge

The 2000 Meter Rowing Challenge

September 29, 2017

Let's start the first Fun Friday Challenge off which involves my favorite piece of cardio equipment: The Rower. Rowing machines are a great way to recruit and build muscles, strengthen cardiovascular endurance and stamina levels, and helps improve flexibility and mobility.

I consider the rowing machine a full body workout because not only are you pulling the handle with your lats and arms, you first initial move in driving through the legs to start your pull. During the first "catch" or pull, you power through your quadriceps and hamstrings muscles by extending through your knees and hips. Then, from the legs, the force is transferred to your core and upper body where you fire up your abs, obliques, lats, traps, and arms to pull the handle back to right below your chest at the ribcage.

Today the challenge for the rower is 2000 meters as fast as you can. I found this challenge on T-Nation.com which is an awesome site for reading articles and learning from the experts in the field of health and fitness about strength training, cardiovascular endurance methods, mobility and flexibility, nutrition, and so much more. Thank you Eric Cressey, an elite-level performance specialist, for posting this challenge! I posted the link below so you have it for later on when you try this out! The world record for guys is 5 mins and 36 secs; for women it's 6:25.




So give that challenge a try guys and let me know how you did! Do it once, record your time, and then in the future do it again and see if you can improve your time from before.

Tomorrow is Savory Saturday! Be on the look out for that healthy recipe posting sometime tomorrow afternoon. Have a great Friday night everyone!

Best,

Ryan
https://www.t-nation.com/training/tip-take-these-4-rowing-challenges

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