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ARCHERY FITNESS: ROWS

To be able to push past plateaus in your archery it is important to look after your back muscles. Check out Bow 161 for an article on my favourite back exercises, but today I want to focus on rows and their variations.

Most people are familiar with the rowing machine, found in almost every gym, and it is excellent for giving you a full-body workout, focused slightly more on your legs. It’s a low-impact exercise and will increase your cardiovascular endurance, so is excellent in almost every respect. Here, however, we are focusing on rowing with weights in order to develop the back muscles and strengthen your shot.

Archery is an upper-body

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