Future Health Frontiers Q&A Weight loss

Which muscles does the rowing machine exercise?

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Asked on：Apr 17, 2026 02:41 PM

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Brooke
Apr 17, 2026

Many people choose rowing machines as aerobic exercise equipment for weight loss training. Of course, everyone’s original intention of losing weight is different, but many people use rowing machines to lose belly fat. After all, the abdomen is the most prone to fat accumulation in the body. Some people who like to drink alcohol will develop a big belly. The formation of belly fat not only affects their body shape and image, but also easily affects the physical and mental health of the body.

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1. How to reduce belly fat using rowing machine?
Muscles can be partially enhanced or partially sculpted, but when it comes to losing weight, can you really lose weight wherever you want? Sadly, the answer is "NO"! Partial weight loss does not exist from the objective reality of the body! Since you lose weight, all body fat will be reduced. Of course, since the abdomen is the easiest place to accumulate fat, the reduction in hip circumference is also the most significant. Therefore, to lose weight, remember that you need to lose weight all over your body!

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2. Which is better, rowing machine or home treadmill?
Home treadmill: Use adjustment speed and inclination to increase difficulty. Users mainly use lower limbs such as thigh muscles, butt muscles and calf muscles to achieve force exertion.

Rowing machine: It activates more muscle groups and is more common. The user not only uses the lower limbs to perform the pushing movement, but also uses the entire upper limbs such as the back, shoulder hamstrings, arms and other muscle groups to perform the pulling movement.

Comparison of advantages: From the perspective of weight loss, there is no doubt that the rowing machine is better. Reasons are as follows

1) The safety factor is good. While ensuring weight loss, ensuring physical and mental health is the top priority.

Home treadmill: Experience the full process of one-leg flip and two-leg flip, so that our joints always bear 4 to 8 times the damage of the weight. Especially for people who have not exercised for a long time, their joints and muscles are more likely to be injured.

Rowing machine: Squatting exercise, there is almost no possibility of injury.
2) High efficiency. Home treadmills can only exercise lower limbs, while rowing machines provide full-body exercise including lower limbs, upper limbs, and back. The efficiency of weight loss is related to the use of muscle groups. The more muscle groups are used, the higher the efficiency, so the rowing machine has advantages.
3) One position on a home treadmill is challenging and boring. The rowing machine uses both hands and feet, and the rowing boat is like floating on the river, and the intelligent system function plays a great role in supporting challenges. Not only does it have online pk, mileage exchange for rewards, mobile game adventure pass, online courses, and real-life shooting interactive experience, it takes the participation of the rowing machine to a higher level.