Product Description

Superbly engineered and crafted from a range of hard woods, the WaterRower offers a rowing action that feels exactly like the real thing. Just like a rowing boat the WaterRower responds to how hard you row. If you row gently the water flywheel that is formed with each stroke will react gently. Row harder and you create a larger water flywheel that increases the workload. You even get the soothing sound of rushing water. The series IV monitor is highly sophisticated but user friendly and will guide you through various programming options. A Polar heart rate unit is optional. When your workout is finished the rower stands upright for storage. Three years domestic parts warranty and one year commercial is standard on this superbly made, stylish machine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80457 in Sports & Outdoors

Features

• Size in use L x 209cm
• Stored L x 49cm W x 59cm H x 209cm
• Variable Water Resistance
• Calibrated For Speed and Distance
• Great low inpact exercise

Customer Reviews

Excellent if expensive (but nicer to use than conventional rowers)
I've been using my waterrower for three months and am very, very pleased with it. I did a lot of research before buying it. I'm an experienced gym user and have owned a gym-quality exercise bike for a decade. I discovered ages ago that it's worth buying high quality kit for use at home because if you buy a cheap option then it is very often clunky, uncomfortable to use and fragile. If you invest a lot in a decent bit of kit then it should last for years PLUS you're more motivated to use it. I can't stand the thought of spending that much money and letting it go to waste!

The waterrower is unlike most other rowing machines in that it is very handsome to look at. It's going to sit in your living room (or where ever) and the wooden finish and design make it much easier on the eye than the usual lots of metal and white plastic.
The waterrower is also very different in that you're not pulling against cogs or chains, but a tub of water. So the action is *very* smooth, and the sound is very pleasant. The action is much less snatchy than most home rowers. Overall it's very easy to use and this encourages me to use it more often.
When not in use the waterrower can be stored upright, so although it is very long you could stand it on end behind a door to tuck it away.
Unlike many rowing machines, the waterrower doesn't use an external power source so you don't have to plug it into the mains. (That always drives me mad, that my exercise bike needs to draw power yet I'm pedalling away producing loads of the stuff!). The only power supply needed for the waterrower are batteries for its monitor.

Downsides: the monitor on mine (a type III a think) has a liquid crystal display which is hard to see in bright sunlight and impossible to see in dim lighting. It has plenty of measurements (strokes per minute, distance travelled and so on) but not calories -- which si the one I'm really interested in. The later monitor can be fitted but it's a faff.
You also need to be careful about positioning the foot pads before you tighten them at initial assembly time. If two people are using the machine regularly, and they have very different sized feet, then it's important to make sure the straps will be in the right place for both -- at first mine was hard to use because it had been set up for someone with much bigger feet than me.
Finally, the water rower is not a cheap rowing machine even though it is very accomplished. As you might expect, plenty of people buy a rowing machine with good intentions but don't use it very much in the long run, and this means you can find secondhand ones in excellent condition.
If you're going to buy it brand new, then you need to be very certain that you're going to use it!
However, if mine was stolen (or something) then I would definitely replace it with another waterrower, and I find traditional-type rowing machines at gyms quite unpleasant to use in comparison.