All Guides and Reviews

Every page on MudderElla is listed here, grouped by what you are trying to decide. Each guide states its own criteria and dates its facts.

Rowing

Overview and reviews:

• Best rowing machines for home: the main rowing guide, with five criteria and a three-year cost table.
• Hydrow review: the Origin, Wave and Arc, with membership cost and warranty.
• Ergatta review: the Luxe water rower and what works without a membership.
• Bowflex Revolution review: a strength home gym with a rowing conversion.
• Concept2 RowErg review: the flywheel rower with no membership.

Head to head:

• Hydrow vs Ergatta: coached video against game-style workouts.
• Hydrow vs Concept2: a connected rower against a flywheel rower.
• Ergatta vs Concept2: water resistance against air resistance.
• Hydrow vs Peloton Row: two connected rowers compared.

By type or need:

• Best water rowing machines: how water resistance works and what to compare.
• Best magnetic rowing machines: quiet, smooth resistance and its trade-offs.
• Best foldable rowing machines: folded footprint and which ones store upright.
• Best rowing machine for beginners: what a first-time buyer should check.
• Best budget rowing machines: what a lower price gets and leaves out.
• Best rowing machine for small spaces: length, width and weight side by side.
• Air vs magnetic vs water rowing machines: the three resistance types compared.

Technique and evidence:

• Rowing machine for weight loss: what named health sources say.
• How to use a rowing machine: the stroke in plain steps.
• Rowing machine workouts: simple beginner plans.
• Rowing machine benefits: muscles worked and the limits of the evidence.

Against other machines:

• Rowing machine vs treadmill: space, noise, impact and cost.
• Rowing machine vs exercise bike: the same comparison against a bike.

Home gyms

• Best home gyms: the home gym guide, with five criteria.
• Best all-in-one home gym: footprint, resistance and exercise range.
• Bowflex home gyms compared: the Revolution and the Xtreme 2 SE.
• Best compact home gym: options for a small room.

Treadmills

• Best treadmills for home: the treadmill guide, with five criteria.
• Best treadmill for walking: belt size, low-speed control and incline.
• Best folding treadmills: folded size and weight.

Exercise bikes

• Best exercise bikes for home: upright, recumbent and spin bikes compared.
• Best exercise bike for seniors: step-through frames, seat support and stability.
• Best folding exercise bikes: folded size and resistance.

Start here

• Best cardio machines for home: rower, treadmill, bike or elliptical.
• Best cardio machine for weight loss: what sources say and do not say.
• How to choose a rowing machine: five questions that narrow the choice.