Cyclist2 wrote: ↑March 31st, 2020, 1:29 pm
Now that I'm not training, just maintaining, it's all rowing, just because I like it better and am not as concerned about muscle strength.
To each their own. However, the article is far from definitive and there are many other factors that come into play. Personally, I'd never stop squatting or dead-lifting, as they play a huge role in keeping bone density up. Health is more than the heart. The heart is important, but so are bones and muscle strength. I mean, losing your balance and falling down can result in a broken hip that may not have broken, had someone been lifting, which resulted in stronger bones.
I am firmly in the camp that you train both. Certainly one can take priority over the other, but training both is important. A rower can probably get away with less (minimal, or possibly even none) strength training than other forms of cardio, depending on how they approach their programming. But lifting is still beneficial to a rower as different angles and movement patterns from the different lifting exercises will place different stresses on the same bones, as well as include additional bones to stress.
That said, I myself am a lifter first, and a rower second. I use the weights for muscle strength and bone density, and rowing, running and biking for cardio AND to get my endorphin fix.
