Category: Fun Workout

The above photo and words written on the wall in front of the three rowing machines must have been in the context of some short but high-intensity rowing sessions.  Maximum intensity rowing can burn calories at a rate in excess of 2,000 calories per hour … but nobody can do that for an hour on a rowing machine. In fact, I don’t think anybody can maintain an effort like that for more than a few seconds on a rowing machine.

However — rowing fast is, indeed fun!  It really gets you going.

It is very reasonable and doable, for an ordinary man or woman to be able to burn 1,000 calories per hour – plus or minus a few hundred calories per hour – for an hour or longer on a rowing machine. In other words, almost anybody should be able to burn between 600 and 1,400 calories in one hour of rowing.

The average rate of calorie burn for my moderate rowing today was around 703 calories per hour, for a total of 844 calories in 1 hour 12 minutes.

Today’s rowing was another 15,000 meters done at an easy to moderate pace which all-in-all amounted to a medium workout which wasn’t too mentally absorbing to prevent also paying attention to three more lectures on cognitive neuroscience.  The material in the lectures was somewhat amazing.

The rowing was invigorating and a nice amount of calories was burned, which made for a healthy appetite at dinner time.

Happy, healthy rowing to you.

 

Today was a little bit of make-up for not rowing yesterday, but mostly it was a day’s quota of rowing.  I stepped up the effort level as the distance progressed, so as to give the heart a little more workout.  But it still wasn’t much of a workout, though it wasn’t as lazy as the day before yesterday.

There are many benefits to rowing, of body mind and mood.  As you become more and more aware of the benefits, you will love it more and more.

The faces tell many stories in the above indoor rowing photos which were found on a blog titled Fit and Fabulous After Forty, in an article called The Week that Was.

Below is the story of my rowing today.

May you have much happiness in your own rowing stories.

The title of today’s post was a spur of the moment choice of two words, cognitive and rowing, as the words to use when searching for an image to paste at the top of this day’s blog post.

The above image was one of the top results when I searched images for “cognitive rowing” and it was found on an appropriate web page, which has information about exercise being good for the brain.  The website is called Mother Nature Network and the particular article is called Exercise Keeps Your Brain Young. I scanned the article but didn’t actually read it because it looked like information I had already been exposed to years ago. But if its news to you that exercise benefits your brain, then give it a read.

The indoor rowing activity today was 12K done while watching two more lectures on cognitive neuroscience. The 12K wasn’t the same as the one done yesterday while watching lectures, however.  Today was done differently in that the first 15 minutes was easy rowing for warmup and then the rest of the session alternated between rowing fast for 30 seconds and rowing easy for 150 seconds and repeating that twelve times, using an automatic interval timer to signal each of the time intervals.

Hard rowing requires more mental effort than easy rowing and I discovered that the activity of multi-tasking between trying to focus on what the lecturer was saying and the task of rowing as hard as I could for 30 seconds each time the timer announced it was time to do so… resulted in a slight degrading of the outcomes of both activities.  I comprehended less of what was being said during each of the twelve 30 second hard-rowing intervals.  Also, I didn’t row as hard as I could have during each of those 30 second intervals, because I was simultaneously trying to pay attention to the lecture.

It was educational in more ways than just what was presented in the lectures.

Happy rowing to you while you keep your brain young.

Today I reminded myself of a rented horse which moves reluctantly away from the stable but moves eagerly when returning.  The indoor rowing distance was 12,000 meters and while rowing I watched an educational video which featured a speaker with an accent which made him difficult to understand.  So I rowed very slowly and quietly, so as to better hear and focus on the video.  And took breaks.

But near the very end of the 12,000 meters, the video had finished and the end was near, so I eagerly rowed faster, to get it over with.

Happy finish stretch of rowing to you.