Kenwood leisure club hotel Sheffield - rowing machine workout

A rowing machine is a good all-round workout. It is an excellent cardiovascular exercise, but it will strengthen  your arms, shoulders, legs, hips and core as you go through the rowing motion. The rowing is less likely to lead to injuries associated with some weightlifting exercises.

Gym Step 1

Do warm-up exercises before you get on your rowing machine to make sure all your muscles are loosened up.  For example, you could perform 20 push-ups and 30 sit-ups before you get on the rowing machine.

Gym Step 2

Begin at your own pace and set up your own resistance level. If you are not used to the activity, you need to set it on the low side. On many machines you also can set your distance.Decide on the time you are going to row for, 5 minutes is sufficent to start with

Gym Step 3

Increase your speed by the time you get to your second week of workouts on the rowing machine along with an increase in distance. Once you get up to 1,000 yards on the rowing machine, you will be starting to reach your target heart rate for this piece of equipment.

Gym Step 4

Increase your resistance and speed as you grow more comfortable on the rowing machine. Once you are able to row 1,500 meters on your machine, your resistance should be up to the 7 or 8 level.

Kenwood leisure club hotel Sheffield - Treadmill workout

Have you had too much to eat in the hotel restaurant - Why not use the Hotel leisure club gym to burn off some calories:

There are 2 treadmills in the gym which can be used  for a running or a walking workout. Besides doing a basic running or walking exercises, you can use the treadmill for interval workouts. During an interval exercise you will perform short, high intensity sprints that will increase your heart rate and oxygen consumption. Interval exercises are great alternative to traditional endurance exercises that produce the same metabolic effects but with a considerably smaller time commitment.

Start your workout with a five minute warm-up. Use grade one incline and a low jogging speed, between 3 1/2 and 4 1/2 mph.

Increase your running speed from low to a moderate during a three-minute interval. Increase your speed to 7 mph or according to your fitness. Do an increase every 15 seconds. Once you reach 7 mph, run for one minute with this speed.

You can keep increasing your speed every 15 seconds until you have reached your maximum speed.  Run for 1-2 minutes

Start to reduce your speed and drink some water when comfortable

You can repeat this exercise

Kenwood Leisure club hotel Sheffield - committee meeting

There is a committee meeting for the Kenwood Hotel Leisure club coming soon in Novermber.

This is a chance for you to put your ideas to the management.

 If you would like to voice your opinion then the meeting starts at 6.15 or put any comments on the blog by clicking on the blog title heading

Kenwood Leisure club hotel sheffield - opening times

I am pleased to say that the Kenwood Hotel has agreed to extend the opening times for the leisure club as follows:

Monday to Friday - 7am until 9.30pm
Saturday and Sunday 8am until 8pm

The leisure club members greatly appreciate this

Kenwood Leisure Club hotel Sheffield - Opening Times

Recently the Kenwood Leisure club in Sheffield has reduced its opening times as follows:

Monday to Friday 7am until 9pm
Saturday and Sunday 8am until 8pm

This does not seem convenient to a large percentage of the leisure club members.

Have you any thoughts on the new Kenwood opening times?

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Kenwood Leisure Club hotel Sheffield

The Kenwood Hotel in Sheffield has had its leisure club website re-invented and brought back to life.

If you have anything to say be it good news, events you are organising, complaints or recommendations about the Kenwood leisure club then put them on the blog so that we can get a collective voice.

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