Break up a long slow row on the rowing machine by doing it as 6 minute chunks. You'll still get the fitness building effects and the calorie burn - but you'll save the boredom!

'BOTTOM Tier' (Fitness Building) Rowing Machine Workout

🚣6 x 6 minutes at 20 / 18 spm with 1 minute rests🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+18-20

➔Effort = 5-6/10

➔Speech = Comfortable

❗ This is your chance to get into the groove. Spend time working on building your base fitness while also working on your stroke. Slowing down gives you the chance to work on the flow from phase to phase, it gives you the time to check if you're hitting the correct posture and position in all those phases too. ❗

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Develop your ability to hold your speed with this hard tempo row. This places as a MID tier workout on the Training Intensity Pyramid

🚣 5 x 5 minutes at 28 strokes per minute with 3 minute rests between 🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+5 (see below for 2K training pace info)

➔Effort = 7-8/10

➔Speech = Tough

❗ The point of this workout is to get you to a point where you need to hold on and push to get to the end of each interval, but it won't be so tough that you don't think you can finish. By the end of Intervals 4 and 5 you'll be stretching your ability to keep the pace, but you'll still be able to. ❗

It WON'T feel easy. But at the same time, it shouldn't feel like a Top Tier training intensity workout until the last 1 or 2 minutes of the last interval. And if you get towards the end of the 4th and 5th interval and don't think you're working hard enough - feel free to increase the pace closer to 2K+2.

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Choose your adventure in this 4 x 8 minute interval workout, with 4 different intensities to choose - from beginner to speed freak!

🚣 4 x 8 minutes at 20spm with 1 minute rests. 🚣‍♀️

➔Beginners: Row at a pace that you know you'll complete the session

➔Lower Intensity - Row at 2K+18 pace (see below for 2K pace info)

➔Medium Intensity - Row at 2K+14 pace (see below for 2K pace info)

➔Top/Max Intensity - Row at 2K+10 pace (see below for 2K pace info)

❗ The 1 minute rests are enough to have a drink, and reset your mind and body (for technique) ready for the next interval. Not enough time to properly recover for the more intense levels - which is how it's meant to be ❗

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Destroy your 30 minute time, or yourself in this tough 30 minute workout. Stick to the pace guide, or push it harder to see just how tough you can make this.

🚣 Row 30 mins as: 4min at 24 spm / 1min at 28spm - 6 times. 🚣‍♀️

➔24spm at 2K+12 (7/10 effort level)

➔28spm at either the natural pace you end up at (easiet option)

➔28spm or at 2K+5 for a hard workout

➔28spm or go a bit faster for a REALLY hard / Max intensity workout

❗ There is no soft option on this workout. Stick to 2K+12 for the 24spm and then choose your intensity for the 28spm for how tough you REALLY want to make it. Sometimes, you just gotta do the tough stuff! ❗

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Build your fitness and burn loads of calories in this slower, low stroke rate row. It may not be the most exciting, but it's the most important kind of session for your body and your performance.

🚣3 x 12min with 1 minute rests - at 20/18/20spm🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+18-20 (20spm) and 20-22 (18spm) See below for 2K pacing info.

➔Effort = 5/10

➔Speech = Comfortable

❗ Not only is this a good Fitness Building row that will give you space to work on technique will burning off some calories - it's also an amazing recovery row to do. The 1 minute rests should halt any huge cardiac drift for your heart rate, and as long as you stick to the pace, you should feel energised rather than drained by the end. ❗

As such, although this is Week 1 Session 4 of the 10Km plan, it also works perfectly as a standalone workout. And if you want to give it "Some wellie" at the end - then load of a 100m time trail like I did.

🚥Programming the monitor🚥

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Choose one pace for an easier row, or the other pace for a hard (but not max effort) row. I do give you tips on how to make this a Max effort workout if that's what you want though.

🚣 Row 8/6/4/6/8 mins with 3/2/3/2 mins rest at 20/22/24/22/20 stroke per minute🚣‍♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+18 for everyone for the 20spm

➔Easier Option = 22spm at 2K+15 and 24spm at 2K+12

➔Tougher Option = 22spm at 2K+13 and 24spm at 2K+8

❗ Either pace option makes this an enjoyable workout. What I'd say though, is pick one and stick to it. Don't think you'll go faster and then back off. If you chose power, stick with it. ❗

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Don't let the cheesy story fool you - this is still an awesome 25 minute row. A mix of low, mid and high intensity rowing while I talk nonsense to you about an adventure to some sea caves will make the time fly by!

You don't need to connect anything, you don't need a Concept2, you don't need to pay a thing. All it'll costs is a little buy in with your imagination as you RowAlong with me!

All a bit of fun, designed to entertain you through an indoor rowing workout whether you're 6 or 60. And if you put in the effort, you'll get a great workout.

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Start easy then row hard in three 12 minute intervals in this tough rowing machine workout.

🚣 Week 2 Session 3 is 3 x 12 mins with 3 minute rests🚣♀️

➔Pace Guide = 8mins at 20spm / 2K+18 - 4mins at 28spm / 2K+5

➔Effort = 5-6/10 then 8-9/10

➔Speech = Ok - then Tough

❗ Start each interval with 8 minutes of low rate, low intensity rowing - workout on your technique and groove - then hit the next 4 minutes at around your 5K pace to feel the intensity. Rest 3 mins - do it two more times ❗

This is meant to be a mini version of a longer slog row like a 6K / 30 min / 10K - where you need to grind out the first two thirds or so - and then it starts to get tough.

As such, this is being used as 10KW2S3 - and is the hardest session of the week. You don't have to be on the 10K plan to get use out of this row though.

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rom beginner to speedy junky, this 30 minute row will suit anyone who wants to get a great indoor rowing workout

🚣 Row 30 minutes at 20spm - and pick your intensity preference 🚣‍♀️

➔Beginners - 5/10 effort for 9 minutes. Rest / light rowing for 1 minute.

➔Bottom tier intensity - 2k+18

➔Mid tier intensity - 2k+ 15

➔Max intensity - Go as far as you can

❗ One row, four different ways to row it. You'll probably find that the intensity level of the Beginner and Bottom Tier rows is pretty much the same - but the Mid and Top Tier workouts will need a lot more effort to get through, and will really leave you feeling like you've been working hard. ❗

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Get the stroke rate up by rowing 10 hard and fast intervals for 3 minutes with 90 seconds rest inbetween.

🚣 10 x 3 mins at 26-28spm with 90 second rests🚣♀️

➔Pace Guide = 2K+7-10 - and TRY TO IMPROVE!

➔Effort = 8-10/10

➔Speech = Unlikely

❗ If you are rowing the 10K plan - then W4S1 had a 28spm effort after every 4 minutes. Whatever pace you did that at should be the pace you row this one at for the first few intervals. Which should be between 2K+7 amd 2K+10. Once you get 3 or 4 intervals into this session - start to increase your pace if you can. And certainly - increase your pace for the last 4 intervals. ❗

This is Week4 Session3 of the 10Km plan - but you don't have to be doing the plan to find value in this row. Time spent rowing at higher rates (and to be fair, 28 isn't even that high) is really important.

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