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Rowing faster
Once you've learned the basic technique, rowing faster becomes more and more tempting. When you see fit, experienced practitioners cranking away at high speed, it's hard not to want to emulate them.
This is a growing sport worldwide, spurred on by the exploits of UK Olympians like Steven Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, who have shown that rowing faster helps you to achieve awesome levels of fitness.
So if you want to start rowing faster, how do you go about it?-
Build a base: As with any sport, you have to build a good base before you can start cranking up the revs. In this case it means that you should be able to comfortably sustain 20 to 30 minutes on the machine at a steady pace before you look to move on.
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Technique: Technique is all important. If you're not sure if you are performing the exercise right, ask a trainer. If your technique is poor you will not only reduce your chances of increasing your speed, you'll also be more likely to get injured.
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Improvement: Increasing speed is best done through interval workouts. A typical workout might be ten minutes of warm up, followed by 4 X 1 minute at high speed, with a 90 second rest between each speed interval. Cool down for five minutes at the end.
As you become fitter you can increase the speed at which you do your intervals, the length of the intervals, and the number that you perform. Go easy though - this is a tough workout!
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