Not saying im perfect at it but it’s my newfound fave.
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Same - this is the exercise machine/ equipment that gets me to the gym in the first place there is a goood youtube channelcalled dark hourse rowing that gives a lot of good workouts for the rowing machine whether you are just starting out or more advanced (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCshPuX_lIPyxu0U2iwhhBZg)
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It’s great low impact cardio…for me it can be easier than running, and when you start out the fat will melt off. You can put in a half hour on there if you want!
I stopped hopping on there after a while because I forgot…so that was a few months ago and other objects shined more brightly and I wanted to wander and dick around with them and ignore all the girls. 
You can pop in and out in two 20 min sessions a day. You can skip a week! You can pop in whenever you want to and build a massive aerobic base.
You are seated and comfy, body weight is not a factor. You are not absorbing shock.
Make sure you master perfect form. For me, keeping the hands on the handle at the same place is essential. Straight back, activate glutes…I make my movements perfectly symmetrical on either side up to my shoulder.
I get impatient and start hammering away at it after a while.
Avoiding injury is key.
You can put on your favorite music! You can speed up and slow down when the beat is intense and feel like a champion.
Just make sure to wipe off the seat and handles before you get on there, and even the buttons!
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Wish they had wipes 
I did 20 mins on bike 10 mins on row and some chest press but only did 12
They’ve got a little spray and wipes where I go. I spray and wipe off everything I touch. Sometimes I’ll put my phone in a plastic bag if setting it down. I wash my hands. I wipe off the display if I might touch it.
I wipe of the buttons aggressively.
You can even take a little container of clorox wipes.
And just wipe agressively when you get in there and do your thing.
The bike is great, but it hurts me to sit on the narrow seat one, which gets all up in my business. The other flat ones are taken by old ladies and stuff…I’m young, I can use the treadmill without worrying about busting my legs up.
I just keep it on an incline of at least 2% or more, and more incline means less impact force.
That’s not to say I’m a runner worth anything! Mania just makes me keep going.
At least for me…I try and stick to a single aerobic exercise in a session.
For me, right now, its lactate threshold hopefully today, which is 1.8-2.5mi for me, run at a pace of between 5-6.5mph…thereabouts. I’m not an efficient runner, I haven’t run in maybe a week. The LT run takes me 18-25 min, the meat of it ends at 18-20min, I might do a 5 min warm up at 2.5-4.5 mph before and after. That’s a nice build up.
So it gets my tissues warmed up and lubricated, and maybe 2 or 3 lunges. I never go under 2% incline, I’m heavy and have thunder thighs, and I don’t need to sit in and destroy my lower legs. Versus long slow cardio, I feel a 30-35 minute lactate threshold run kickstarts my metabolism more. Long slow cardio of 40-60 minutes is fine, too, but it gets boring so I have to surge and change gears here and there to stay mentally engaged, or even better yet, be outside in nature.
There are interesting things, slight ups and downs, thinking planning and transitioning, and things to see on an outdoor jog.
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