Five Indoor Workouts To Boost Your Fitness
- By Linzay Logan
- Published Jan. 24, 2012
Rowing
Popular in the CrossFit culture, rowing provides many of the same benefits of running, but isn’t as taxing on your joints. It’s a great cross training workout, especially when rehabbing injuries, and elevates the heart rate just as much as running, while also challenging the muscles all throughout the body that running tends to neglect.
“Rowing is an invaluable tool for runners,” founder of Crossfit Endurance, Brian MacKenzie, told Competitor earlier this year. “It helps runners and cyclists find power in muscles they hadn’t used before.”
FILED UNDER: Training TAGS: rowing / Spinning / swimming / treadmill running / weight training
Linzay Logan
Linzay Logan is the copy editor for Competitor magazine and cares about punctuation probably a little too much. She particularly loves to avoid commas as well as add exclamation points whenever she can get away with it! She also loves to run marathons and half-marathons—probably a little too much. Don’t let her small size fool you; she’ll still try to outrun you anytime. Even though chances are she probably can’t.