'Approaching the end of my 20s, with my birthday 6 months away, I wanted to lose some weight and get fit - and as someone who rowed on the water at University, using a rowing machine naturally seemed like the best thing I could do. I'd bought gym memberships in the past, but never got round to going regularly due to the hassle involved with physically getting there, and then having to cope with the crowds of people. So I rented a WaterRower rowing machine, for half the price per month of going to the gym. If you've never rowed one before, it's the closest thing to being on the water without actually getting your feet wet.

After doing steady state increasing distance pieces for a few months on most week nights, and losing 30 pounds, it was starting to get pretty boring, and I couldn't think of how I could change it up to actually do interval training or something else that would spice up the row and keep me on target with my fitness - and I missed exercising with someone else, as rowing on an erg is a solitary sort of exercise. That's where Xeno and Row2Go came to the rescue! I remembered that I had seen Xeno on YouTube, back from when I was researching getting my own rowing machine, and he mentioned his site - www.row2go.us. I checked it out and looked through what was offered and instantly saw how amazingly positive he is in his videos, so I thought - let's go for it! I'd already rediscovered my love of rowing over the last few months, but I wanted to row with someone else, make sure I was rowing right, and have some fun challenges to do - so I joined that day.

Cheers!

Andy

Andy uses Quicktime Pro to download all the Row2go workouts.