Rowing maching vs treadmill vs stationary bike

Cycling is probably the lowest impact exercise, so if you have problems with your knees bearing impact/weight that's the one.

Rowing is also low impact and is basically a full body workout.

Treadmill is running, it's considered high impact normally, but with how they're built to cushion impacts and have suspension systems, you can consider it medium impact or lowish.

Treadmill is about the only one that forces you to exercise while the others are based off of your movements activating the machine itself. That is unless you have a manual treadmill.

They all do fine for losing weight.

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It depends on what you want. If you want general fitness rowing sounds great (I've never rowed myself). If you want lung capacity then look at the treadmill or the bike. Cycling gives you really ripped legs if you do it consistently. Treadmill builds up endurance so you can do things yourself. Imagine being able to think you can run 13 miles straight without stopping. Or if you REALLY needed to get somewhere you could do 2 miles in about 20 minutes or less on your own without needing a bike or car.

They're all valid dependent on what you need. I love both cycling and running. I have to say having a high cycling endurance you can do 30-60 miles outdoors and REALLY see your area and learn it. However...you have to hope drivers are nice to cyclists which they aren't to do that.

My cousin bought a Rowling machine and now he's a TERF. :(

I prefer rowing because I find it easiest to just sit and park in front of the TV endlessly. So far, I haven't haven't had any TERF inclinations.

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badjay posted...

Cycling is probably the lowest impact exercise, so if you have problems with your knees bearing impact/weight that's the one.

Swimming is the lowest

SSJGrimReaper posted...

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Fifteen years ago you'd have all the Meatheads saying you'd never be buff if you did cardio

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The bike hurts my butt. So I will go with rowing

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I bought treadmill and rowing machine. I use treadmill way more, it's a lot more fun for me. Rowing machine is just such a drag to use, I always say I'm going to and then put it off.

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I'm leaning more towards buying a rowing machine now, i like how you get a full body work out pretty much when using it

plus my ankles get fucked sometimes so maybe dis will help with dat

Bike.

Cycling would cater more to cadence work and leg strength. One thing is if you were to exercise beyond your anaerobic threshold, maybe a bike is a bit safer.

How ever impact will never match running, to the point I'd say do both. Some people need to do cycling because they need to limit impact due to already damaged/weak joints.

I fucked up my shins bad with terrible splints on a treadmill. Go with either a bike, elliptical, or a stair master.
If you go to an LA Fitness, then just play basketball.

X8Azazel8X posted...

Swimming is the lowest

My b, you're right, I should've said of the equipment offered so far.

Vegy how come you didn't add elliptical machine to the list? That is a good cardio machine.
elliptical machine machine you can use your arms, to put less pressure on the legs and increase resistance to make it harder. There are elliptical machine with TV on it, so you can watch things on it.

badjay posted...

My b, you're right, I should've said of the equipment offered so far.

I thought it was implied tbh

If you have the space, I'd go rowing.

Elliptical

supermichael11 posted...

Vegy how come you didn't add elliptical machine to the list? That is a good cardio machine.
elliptical machine machine you can use your arms, to put less pressure on the legs and increase resistance to make it harder. There are elliptical machine with TV on it, so you can watch things on it.

TBH, machines with TVs on them are dumb when you can just mount a tablet and do functionally the same thing. Less cost, but maybe your machine doesn't implode if the cheap tablet they have built in croaks.

I bought a rower, it was cheaper den an ecliptical and takes up less space when folded tbh

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Greatest workout I ever had was in a kayak. So rowing.

Assembled it today and gave it a try for 10 minutes, i youtubed da proper technique da day before but i think i got more practice to do, it didn't feel right

For cardio I only use the elliptical or stairs on leg day when I'm really feeling it.