Crush your New Year goals: How to power up your fitness with indoor rowing
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New year, new you! Your 2025 New Year’s resolutions may include getting stronger on your indoor rower. Worried about how to get started as a beginner or just looking for good way to get back into rowing? Just follow the 4 steps below to help you find growth-focused goals, the perfect training plan and a fool-proof way to fulfill your fitness aspirations!
1. Review last year’s health journey and training schedule
The first step is looking back at the past year to make strategic choices on your 2025 workout plans. Think about your progression but also consider any setbacks you might have had like new afflictions you’d need to take care of. Next, ask yourself what indoor rowing exercises you enjoyed most and what aspects of your fitness you’d want to improve to decide on a new training routine for the new year.
2. Set attainable yet ambitious fitness goals
Whatever your reason for rowing indoors may be, realistic training goals are your secret to staying motivated throughout the year. Plus, having goals helps you find a suitable training routine that makes you come back for more.
To come up with a big goal, think about why you work out: do you want to lose weight, gain muscles to help with active recovery or enhance your athletic performance? A training goal that’s too easy to achieve may not motivate you sufficiently. But a goal that’s too difficult may be discouraging as well because you won’t be able to live up to your ambitions. Once you have decided on your big workout goal for 2025, set short-term goals. For example, if your long-term goal is to be able to compete in a 2k race at the next indoor rowing world championships, set short-term goals of reaching a new 2k PR every quarter.
3. Create or find a workout plan with test moments
Based on steps 1 and 2, you can now create your own indoor rowing plan or choose from a week-by-week training plan to achieve your goals. It’s important to not only follow a plan but also schedule test moments that help you determine whether you’re on track. For instance, you could take a monthly rowing FTP-test to check on your progress.
4. Join a workout group to share your successes
Indoor rowing alone is fun and even more exciting when training with others! Thanks to the internet, connecting with a worldwide community that shares your passion for the ergometer is easy and even beneficial to your mental health! For example, you can join RowAlong’s Sunday sessions on EXR.
Virtual rowing at your own pace in good company or catching up to friends fuels your determination while making working out from your home gym less lonely. By training together online, you have the chance to show off your growth and celebrate your successes with a community, increasing your dedication to the max.
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