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Concept2 Rowing Machine. Row for an hour first thing in the morning, six days per week.

Rowing machines can be real instruments of torture if you want them to be. I prefer to keep my sessions long and low heart rate, about 65% of my max bpm. I'll do some more intense stuff when the weather warms up a bit.

Some people struggle with the boredom of long rowing sesisons but I'm lucky that I can cope with it, put my music on and go into a half awake half asleep state until the mins are gone.

Concept2 have a great web site, plenty of challenges and ways of tracking your progress. Machines are quite expensive but hold their value and are extremely robust, I've never had a single issue with mine.