Assian_Candor [comrade/them]

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  • Depending on how high your ceilings are I would consider a speed rope instead. This plus some calisthenics and maybe a pullup bar is all you need.

    8ft is probably enough, 10 is for sure. Rowing is great but it takes up a lot of space, is expensive and takes a lot of time. You can do a whole rope workout in 20 minutes and nothing builds work capacity like the rope imo. It’s also pretty low impact. You feel like a jackass at first, tripping over the rope every three hops, but it only takes a couple of sessions to get used to the cadence.

    Rowing is not bad on the knees, tends to be harder on the back in my experience but I also don’t have knee issues. Top resistance on the machine isn’t that big a deal imo people tend to set their resistance way too high on average. Every time I go to the gym the resistance on the rowers is maxed when 5-6 is the sweet spot. If it’s not enough people should be pulling harder instead of jamming the lever to 10.

    If you do go the rower route I would look for one that has a chain instead of a cable.