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Training with the Fluid Rower
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Check with your doctor before beginning an exercise program.
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Follow instructions on rower decal for foot position and always fasten straps.
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Begin with no more than 5 minutes of training on the first day and slowly build your training
program.
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Have a training partner observe your rowing form and compare to the decal on your rower.
WELCOME TO ROWING
By First Degree Fitness professional rowing coach Nick Suess
ALL ABOUT ROWING
Rowing is a great sport! I realised this pretty soon after I first took it up forty years ago, and that was long before I ever heard
the word “aerobic”, or came to realise that rowing is just about the best total-body aerobic exercise you can do. All major muscle
groups are called into full use and get a thorough workout. Only swimming is even in the same league. And rowing is non-
weight–bearing, which makes it especially suitable for those who are no longer young. I’m still rowing after all these years, still
competing as a veteran, and I’m just a kid at that level. I know people still active in the sport at close to 90 years of age.
I have been a rowing coach for a great many years, and during the last couple of decades I have specialised in coaching
mature-age beginners, anyone who didn’t learn in their teens or early 20s, but who reckons it’s a good idea to give it a go. And
you’re never too old to learn. I’ve had newcomers in their late 70s who have learnt fast and are having a great time in the sport.
FIRST DEGREE FITNESS – THE FLUID ROWER
And that’s why the guys at First Degree Fitness have asked me to join their crew and share my expertise with current and
potential customers via their website and this owner’s manual for the Fluid Rower. And I’m really happy to do so. If it gets you
interested in rowing, that’s great. Of course, as someone who is passionate about the sport, I’m hooked on the “real thing”,
rowing on water, but I realise not everyone gets to do that. However, the Fluid Rowers from First Degree Fitness are excellent
machines that can give you the equivalent aerobic exercise and pleasure without you ever getting an oar wet.
The Fluid Rower is an exception amongst the wide array of rowing machines out there. What sets it apart from some of the
others is that it has been developed by a team who care about customers getting the most out of it. Rowing is not hard to learn,
but what is vital is to get the basics correct early on, rather than persist in poor and potentially harmful technique simply because
nobody has shown you otherwise. Rowing on a machine shouldn’t be dangerous, but it certainly is hard physical activity, and
any activity that stresses the body has the potential to cause injury if it’s not done correctly. Correct technique is easy to learn
and, just like learning to ride a bike, once you’ve got it, nothing could feel more natural. So if you are a newcomer to rowing, or
have never been coached, please take the time to study these notes.
And please excuse me if my explanations are too “back to basics” for you, but I’m writing this so it will be clear and have
meaning for someone who knows absolutely nothing about rowing; someone who is faced with a Fluid Rower for the first time in
their life. You want a good workout and you don’t want back pain tonight, tomorrow, or next week. How do you start?