The Rowing Machine

All my exercise (biking, running) involve my legs and nothing else.  This isn't good for me, in the grand scheme.  I need to work my upper half.  Darwin has an elliptical, but I hate using it.  It makes my joints feel weird.  I finally settled wanting on a rowing machine, which works a lot of different muscles all at once.

I hinted to Darwin that I wanted one for my birthday, then remembered that subtlety is often lost on him and instead pointed at a web site on my computer.  "This is what I want for my birthday," I said. 

And lo, a few days before my birthday, a giant package landed on our front porch.  Darwin had told me not to open any packages that came because it would be a birthday spoiler, but this one said ROWING MACHINE on three sides, so it was kind of hard to miss.  :)

Thoughtful Darwin had also arranged for a guy to come to our house to assemble thing thing.  Also yay!  Both Darwin and I are bad at this kind of thing, and I really, really hate doing it, to boot.

Friday (just before Assembly Day), Darwin got an email that gave him the assembler's name and photograph along with the estimated time of arrival.  Saturday morning, he arrived and I shooed him into the basement exercise room.  It only took him about half an hour to assemble the whole machine.  Judging from the number of parts, it would have taken me a couple frustrating hours, so I was only too glad to have him.

Later that afternoon, I looked up a number of videos that explained how to use a rowing machine properly.  It's been years--decades--since I used one, and that was in the days before the Internet, so I never really learned it.  I set my phone where I could see it and followed the videos until I had the hang of it, and went to work.

It was more interesting than running, that's for sure.  The 20-minute workout went quickly, and I could feel it across my body.  We'll keep going!

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Published on January 14, 2018 11:46
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