Does the rowing machine hurt your knee
Rowing machine is a common fitness and weight loss project, but many people may not understand the use of rowing machine and precautions, which may lead to knee injury. Let's take a look at how to use rowing machine without knee injury.
Generally speaking, the rowing machine will not hurt the knee, but if the wrong way is used, it may hurt the knee, so if it can, it is best to practice under the guidance of a professional fitness coach.
Scientific rowing machine exercise will not hurt the knee, but the wrong rowing posture may also cause knee injury. With the rower exercise, the weight of the basic body will not cause pressure on the knee joint, and the knee joint will not be injured due to the impact; but if in the process of practicing the rower, the improper exercise method or posture, such as sitting left and right shaking, knee bending too much exercise will bring great pressure to the knee, thus causing knee injury.
Rowing machine, from the point of view of sports biomechanics, can make the body more symmetrical and healthy, and has no excessive impact on the joints of the body, and has no sports damage to the body. Compared with other sports like spinning bike and treadmill, rowing machine is safer and has no sports injury. However, it should be noted that the process of exercise action is not standard, the force is not correct, such as with the back force, it may produce sports injury.
How to use the rowing machine? It won't hurt your knee
Warm up before exercise
No matter what kind of exercise, do a good job of warm-up exercise before exercise, such as jogging, stretching, joint activity, not only can make joints and muscles enter the sports state faster, strengthen the effect of exercise, but also to a large extent avoid the occurrence of sports injury.
Use the right posture
In rowing, the correct posture is to push the legs, straighten the upper body, do not hunchback, bend, hip joint movement, first bend, in the back, arms pull, shoulder extension, chest, straight legs, repeat the action; pay attention to the consistency of the action, do not pause each push action, to do in place.
Master the intensity of exercise
If the intensity and range of rowing exercise is too small, the muscles may not be fully stretched and contracted, and the purpose of exercise can not be achieved; but if the amplitude is too large, or the intensity exceeds the range of their own tolerance, the muscles and joints may be injured. So according to their own actual situation, grasp the exercise intensity.
Relax after exercise
At the end of rowing exercise, we should also pay attention to stretch or massage the body to relax, so that the tense muscles can relax.
