The advantages of rowing practice
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Rowing is an sport in which
one or more persons do a light boat to
advance. In this sport, each person uses his or her own force on the oars and
push the water for moving the boat. The oarsperson is sitting with one's back
to the direction of the movement. The sit can move along two rails, this
serves for the legs and arms movility and this help to do the
boat advance easier. This sport can be practiced
to a hobby and competition |
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THE
ADVANTAGES OF ROWING PRACTICE TopG
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Rowing is the complete
exercise and the best sport activity for improving the human quality of
life. You can choose run, walk, ciclism or swimming, but no one of these and
other sports is so complete like rowing, why?. Well, there are a lot of
reasons, one of them is that rowing practice uses a large variety of muscles:
the legs for the major force of row, but the superior part of the body do the
rest. You row with legs, arms, back, abdomen and buttocks. Moreover, rowing
is one of the few aerobic sports that do not damage your back. |
When you row, you can give to
your body, aerobic condition, flexibility and fortitude, with impact free
soft and ritmic movements.
Also, Rowing is an excelent calories
burning and more effective with the same effort than other sports.
Table of calories
burning by hour
for a weight of
60kg (
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Sport |
Calories/hr |
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High impact Aerobics Competitive basketball Competitive boxing Walk slowly General stationary ciclism Run Run Soccer (light practice) Competitive Soccer Light
Rowing Moderate
Rowing Vigorous
Rowing Swimming, general Tennis, general |
354 472 708 148 325 472 944 413 590 413 561 708 354 413 |
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Rowing is a long life sport,
moreover, a sport for all your life. Thus, you can see the grandfather,
the father and the son rowing together, and maybe the next generation with the
baby on the boat!
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You can say, all right, but I can't swim. It
does not matter! it is not necessary, you can practice indoor rowing too,
in a rowing machine, the ergometer with the same advantages of the other
rowing. Moreover, you can choose
the practice level, for competition or only for hobby. You can row only for
your health, or you can row for national or international competitions. |
Just probe it and enjoy it.
Rowing can do many good things for you...
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The rowing boats generally
have 1, 2, 4 or 8 oarspersons. Boats with different number of oarspersons are
very strange, but there may be competitions with boats for 24 oarspersons.
The classification
considering the number of oarspersons, the number of oars and if has or not a
cox is the following:
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Skiff. (1x) (single scull) |
One person with two oars. |
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Double scull (2x) |
Two persons with two oars each one. |
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Quadruple (4x) |
Four persons with two oars each one. |
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Two oars (2-) |
Two persons with one oar each one. |
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Four oars without cox
(4-) |
Four persons with one oar each one. |
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Eight oars with cox (8+) |
Eight persons with one oar each one and a cox. |
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NAVIGATING
IN INTERNET? TopG
Or ROWING IN THE
WEB?
Here you have some
interesting links
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News about Rowing |
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International Rowing Federation, FISA |
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Rowing History |
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Rowing links |
New links, soon
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