Rowing question

[CalebM]

I have been offered a second hand concept rower.

I know this is recommended for warm up prior to lifting.

Would it also be a good option for some conditioning instead of a prowler. Such as some short sprint intervals?

Thanks

[Mark Rippetoe]

The prowler is far superior to the rower for conditioning. But if it's free and you have the room, sure.

[heinz83]

I have been offered a second hand concept rower.

I know this is recommended for warm up prior to lifting.

Would it also be a good option for some conditioning instead of a prowler. Such as some short sprint intervals?

Thanks

It's recommended for warmup?

[Mark Rippetoe]

It's fine for warmup.

[MWM]

The rowing machine has two main advantages:

1. it only requires the space of its own footprint to use it, whereas the prowler requries a suitable length of flat, even ground of a suitable surface to push it over.
2. it has a battery-powered monitor on it which gives you precise information about your performance, the drag factor, etc. and allows you to set up workouts with the exact distance, time, intervals and rest you desire. This renders it a training tool in the proper sense of the term because you can track precisely measurable increases in performance (either over the same distance or time, or at the same power output over longer distances and time), whereas the prowler doesn't offer you this data.

The main disadvantage of the rowing machine is that it requires you to develop correct rowing technique in order to get the benefit from it, whereas the prowler is pretty much intuitive. Rowing machines are also noisy due to the chain-driven fan inside them.

[heinz83]

There's an incorrect way to use a rowing machine?

[Mark Rippetoe]

There's an incorrect way to use a rowing machine?

There's an incorrect way to do everything. Have you learned nothing since 2020?

[heinz83]

Maybe I should clarify the question. What is the correct way, and the incorrect way to use a rowing machine?

[VNV]

There's an incorrect way to do everything. Have you learned nothing since 2020?

The y2k panic was nothing compared to the y20 panic.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Maybe I should clarify the question. What is the correct way, and the incorrect way to use a rowing machine?

Don't flex your elbows until your knee extension is complete. Then immediately straighten elbows as you flex your knees.