GOOD, GO OUT AND GET SWOLE
110 days (plus the few days it counted together because i'd row at night and then the morning) is all it took for me to go from "idk kind of doughy w/ beer belly" to having lats almost like Bruce Lee, massive upper pecs, fuckin BOULDER SHOULDERS
I went from "dad bod" to "i could beat up your dad" bod and YOU CAN TOO
I wanna see mutual aid networks of comrades buying community rowing machines and sharing them to all get jacked to all hell. The People's Rowers will build perfect bodies for the vanguard, battalions of police will cower at the mere sight of our meaty and powerful frames
i have to stretch a lot to avoid back pain and stuff because my hamstrings get real tight and also sometimes I do obliques and planks and pushups and squats and bicep curls but most of the time I am too lazy for that shit I ain't got time for all that
I've been thinking i need a new rowing themed acct though like RowVWade or something
@CARCOSA@hexbear.net come on and get that rower! Do what I did and in half a year your pecs and collarbones will be like a vast, meaty shelf, and you will have power you did not know was in your capacity!! Imagine being able to ROW A FASCIST'S HEAD OFF
it kinda varies on how much I procrastinate and how many breaks I take but generally 40 minutes to uhh like 3 hours if I take a lot of breaks and get side tracked on my phone u_u now that I am back at work I try to not take more than an hour
but ideally it would only take 30 minutes... to row for 30 minutes per day....
How much is a nice rowing machine like that?
I have a cheap one. I think I paid $175 for it.
The one pictured I think I paid something like 200-225 for, but it was on some weird sale. Iirc amazon listed its regular price as 430ish?
There were others in the same price range that looked comparable, i think i just went with this because it had bluetooth/a tracking app and i figured if it was actually 430 dollars maybe it'd be really nice.
Tbh it's got its problems, I feel like the shape of it might be kind of weird and affect my form? Like looking at an actually-nice rower like the concept 2, I think it would feel different not having the point of attachment for the rope basically right where your feet are. I feel like I don't get as much engagement with my legs as I should, and that might be because of my form, but I've been thinking it's because there's less distance for me to pull before my legs are fully extended. But i dunno this is all just me speculating. The concept 2 is like 1000 dollars and I don't need perfect form to get jacked lol
Other than that it also sometimes decides to turn off or disconnect from my phone in the middle of rowing, but it hasn't done that in a while, and all that practically means is interrupting it tracking your strokes
If you want the specific rower I use it's this one but idk if Id say it's worth it at 300 dollars. There are a LOT of comparable rowers that are probably closer to 200 still
The concept 2 is like 1000 dollars and I don't need perfect form to get jacked lol
I'm repeating to myself what I told myself when I bought my cheap rower in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. If I'm a very good boy for a very long time and I exercise regularly - I can eventually treat myself to something snazzy.
I was thinking maybe late 2021 after a year of exercise. Instead it's been literally about two years since I used my rower. Nothing's wrong with it. I've been lazy as hell.
Ninja edit: To remind myself I googled Concept2. Something like that was going to be my treat. Now maybe it can be a 2024 treat? But that would mean I need to exercise. Haha.
Go exercise dawg! Go put on some music and start blastin out some rows. It SUCKS but just do what I do. As hard as you can for like 5 minutes and then take a short break, walk around and stretch and smoke a bowl.
It gets easier when you start to see noticeable results and you can spend that break looking in the mirror like narcissus
I can never trust my sneaky memory. I checked and it's actually been three years since I exercised. I stopped on
2020-08-24.As hard as you can for like 5 minutes
I work from home so the past few weeks I've been thinking I'd do it for 10 minutes 6 times throughout the day. And if I cheat and sometimes it's only 5 minutes (or even less) or I only do it 3 times - that's okay. The key thing is doing it every day.
looking in the mirror like narcissus
I need to get back to that.
if you can do that much without hurting yourself then go for it, you'll be doing that much more work! I've only ever been doing 30 minutes a day though. But I've considered doing more, I just take forever doing that 30 minutes already because I typically take so many breaks
I'm pretty good once I'm sitting on the damn thing. But, man, I don't know how I can trick myself to get started.
@AnarchaPrincess@hexbear.net got me started on the fitbit it’s fucking awesome. Like yeah giving your data to google is hell but at the same time having the little thing to check in, track progress and stuff hits the dog brain in the same way as posting it is very motivating
Before this I was hemming and hawing about needing to drop 15 lbs for like 2 years, now I can really see it sticking
There's no trick, you just take all these thoughts you have about how you should be doing it and then you say "fuck the part of me that doesn't wanna do this" and go get started. Maybe get super high first like I do
You do a bunch of other shit throughout the day that you don't wanna do, you have the power to make yourself sit on that machine, and you know that the mental and physical benefits you see afterwards will be worth it. Do it!
Start way easier. Like stupid easy. Like so easy it'd be stupid not to do it. Then commit and slowly build up.
Like today or tomorrow do it once for 2 minutes. The next time do it for 2.5 minutes. Then the next time do it for 3 minutes. Then the next time do it twice a day for 2 minutes.
Maybe even slower than that. Maybe only 15 or 20 seconds each increase. Maybe just start with 20 seconds.
To go from not exercising to having to convince yourself to exercise 6 times a day will be quite a challenge. From my personal experience if I did it like you have planned id have to constantly convince myself to do it. I'd have excuses, compromises, deals all ready to strike with myself.
Maybe start with 30 seconds or even less. 15 seconds! Then tomorrow youre already at 30 and after a week youre at 2 minutes! Make Make it so damn easy you can't convince yourself not to. Then put a plan in place so that there is minimal thinking or deciding. Once you do it for a few weeks then you can't start getting creative and swifty with it.
Good luck. It's the only thing that consistently gets me back lifting after a break. Like I'll take 100lbs off my lifts(or just bar, maybe I'll OHP 150 one day).
You can always do more if it's too too easy. Just keep it easy enough you come back for more.
Also there is a trick I use sometimes when I need to start something I don't want to do. I don't ever convince myself or agree to do it, I just sorta start moving without committing. Pull a fast one on my chatterbox brain.
That's fantastic! I've had my eye on one of these for ages, I should prioritize getting one. I like the idea of being able to exercise in the comfort of my own home, but don't have room for a ton of equipment.
I really recommend it, as long as you make yourself use it you will get jacked to all hell. As far as size the one I have isn't that big, it's maybe 6 feet long, 1-1.5 feet wide, and stands up straight on the front part when not in use
