CITYROW: at home fitness

I love this app. I bought my WaterRower about 1 year ago with the intention of buying the Ergatta attachment and using that for workouts. But I decided to try a free week of CITYROW Go and have been hooked ever since. I have been a runner for years, but I quickly get bored on treadmills and don’t feel comfortable running outside in the dark or in bad weather, so my goal was to have a way to work out in the mornings at home and through the winter as well. Cityrow Go has now become my main form of exercise. I love that it covers cardio as well as strength training but also offers yoga and stretching for days when I might need to be a little easier on myself. I consider myself to be in pretty good shape but these workouts consistently challenge me, including even the shorter 20-minute classes! The instructors are enthusiastic and the pace is appropriate. I am also loving their new live class option, which motivates me to get out of bed on time when I otherwise might have been tempted to hit snooze again. I connect my machine to the CITYROW Go app on my iPad via the Water Rower commodule, and this has been working great. Definitely recommend this app!

The coaches and variety of classes can’t be beat! 🔥🔥 They offer “Beginner” level classes, but honestly, rowers of ALL levels can do any of their classes. As an experienced rower myself, I love that I can choose classes that are 100% on the rower for days when I want endurance, or I can do classes that are on and off the rower with weights to build strength. They offer NEW CLASSES WEEKLY and have a huge catalog of past classes available to take any time. They offer both 60 and 30 minute classes for days when time is limited. After class I like to take yoga or Kinstrech classes for recovery. They just added Pilates classes too ! So lately I’ve been taking yoga and Pilates on my rest days. Several times a year they offer fun challenges and that’s when the FB group becomes a huge part of the experience! 🤩 The FB group is super active and fun! The coaches are very active in the group too! Always cheering you on and available to answer questions. I really can’t recommend CityRow enough!

I bought my WaterRower a few years ago, with good intentions of it being the exercise I love. I quickly realized it’s really hard! And it’s especially hard to stay motivated doing it on my own since I just don’t know how to pace myself. So my rower sadly sat gathering dust for way too long. This app has changed everything for me. It’s still a really hard workout. But having an instructor there to break it up with different rowing and non-rowing tasks, and encouraging me through it, makes all the difference. I’ve done six of the workouts now, and I enjoyed (well, as much as I can enjoy any exercise) them all. If you’re on the fence, give it a try! The one thing I do wish the app provided is some basic instructions on how to use the S4 meter on the rower, since I don’t have the CRG version of the rower. I often don’t really understand what they’re taking about, but I figure it out and set my own milestones, which works fine for me. But maybe a quick intro video for newbies would be helpful.