by Dr. Ed
The secret is to do quality exercise three times per week, consume less sugar and alcohol, and eat more protein and fat and fewer carbohydrates.
Don’t exercise to burn calories.
Instead, do quality interval exercises that take little time to increase your muscle mass and strength. Then your muscles will burn calories and fat 24-hours a day, even while you sleep. We focus on rowing distances from 100 meters to 2000 meters. Intervals are better for your fitness than longer distances. Personally, I seldom row more than 500 meters in an interval. But you may prefer rowing up to 2000 meters.
Focus on fitness. Your looks will follow.
Athletic performance defines fitness. Fitness is the combination of strength, speed, and endurance. Fitness includes coordination, flexibility, and balance.
To be fit, you do not need to do hundreds of different exercises or exercises that isolate individual muscles. It is better for you to do simple, fun, full-body exercises to increase your strength, speed, and endurance, without hurting your joints.
An Olympic sprinter does not do hundreds of different exercises. A sprinter runs intervals at different distances and speeds. The sprinter thereby achieves fitness.
Done correctly, rowing is a more complete exercise than weights and all other specialty equipment in the gym. Rowing will improve your whole body.
Rowing is a weight-bearing exercise that strengthens your bones. Rowing is a low-impact exercise that works all your major joints without hurting them.
A Concept 2 rower is easy to own and use at home or in the office, or in a gym.
If you can sit on a rower seat and put your feet in the foot blocks, remove your feet, and stand up, then you can row for exercise. Even if you need help sitting down and standing up, you can still row for exercise.
Row Tribe helps you lose fat, be fit, and look good.
I created RowTribe to help you achieve better health and fitness, so you can look and feel better with minimal time invested… no matter what your age.
Row Tribe is an online community with an instructional course and group coaching by me. It will focus on the Concept 2 rower, a sensible diet, supplements, and a fitness lifestyle.
I’m Dr. Ed Berry. I am a world-class rower, sailor, and athlete, with a PhD in physics. My all-around athletic performance in graduate school earned me a membership in the elite Sigma Delta Psi national athletic honorary.
I am in excellent health. In Concept 2 rowing, I hold world firsts in age-group 80 to 89, lightweight, for 100 meters, 500 meters, 1000 meters, and one-minute races. A few heavyweight guys beat me, but I remain in the world’s top three even when I compete with the big boys.
I understand the physics of the human body. I have done baseball, track, swimming, gymnastics, trampoline, weightlifting, karate, small-boat sailing, biathlon, and triathlon.
No matter what your athletic experience, present fitness, or age, I will help you improve your physical performance. As a result, you will look better and feel better… and maybe live longer.
I don’t do long, boring rowing! I train like a sprinter. I show you how to achieve your best fitness in the shortest time possible and how to keep your workouts fun rather than boring.
As you may have noticed, sprinters have the best bodies in track. You can achieve similar fitness, within your personal ability, by using a rower.
The thing is, you must learn the proper form before you can row for fitness. I explain why my rowing form is faster and safer than what others teach.
I do not use drugs, steroids, or chemicals. I show you the supplements I take and where I buy them.
If you are busy, like me, with little time for health and fitness, RowTribe is for you.