Former Olympic rowing coach tells how to bannish bingo wings

With Britain's outstanding performance at Dorney Lake this year, former Olympic rowing coach and fitness expert Terry O'Neill has some top tips for anyone inspired to start rowing to get fit.

• 20 minute bursts on the Concept2 indoor rower each day is better than three 40 minute stints at the gym. You can alter the settings on the rower depending on your personal goals and fitness levels.
• 20 minutes on a indoor rower provides a full body workout. You don’t have to be up at the crack of dawn to start training and you can participate in this fun activity indoors in your own time. It tones every part of your body.
• Banish Bingo Wings: If you are even slightly overweight some fat will be resident in the underarm area. Rowing burns calories fast and effectively which will reduce the fat and help achieve the lean and toned look.  With rowing, the harder you pull the more resistance you develop which in turn works the arm muscles more intensely. People find it easy to build in short bursts of intensity into their rowing programmes and this raises the body’s metabolic rate, which in turn  ‘burns fat’. Research has shown that the rhythmical action of rowing and the fact that it is low-impact make rowing fun even when you’re working hard and this makes you more likely to stick to it as regular exercise which is vital to keep bingo wings at bay.   
• Indoor rowing is successful in helping people to lose weight and tone up because it works every muscle group because its muscles that burn fat and calories in a low impact workout and as you know muscles burn fat / calories.