Joan Claybrook is the former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and president emeritus of Public Citizen.ey highway legislation is scheduled to be considered this week on the Senate floor. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., want to have the Department of Transportation evaluate these longer trucks instead of recklessly allowing Congress to mandate them.
Save. You won't burn many calories if all you do on a rowing machine is scoot the seat back and forth. But with proper technique -- a strong leg drive, paired with body and arm engagement -- you stand to burn more than 700 calories per hour, depending on your body weight.(Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Getty Images).or example, Harvard Health Publications estimates that if you weigh 185 pounds, you'll burn about 311 calories in half an hour of moderate rowing. If you weighed 135 pounds, you'd only burn 210 calories in the same amount of time.
People who weigh 240 pounds can burn about 654 calories per hour rowing, according to MayoClinic.com, and can burn additional calories by bumping up the intensity level during their workouts. If you canât exercise for a full hour, aim for at least 30 minutes to reap the cardiovascular benefits of rowing.ccording to Harvard Medical School, 125-pound individuals can burn 420 calories per hour rowing at a moderate pace, or 510 calories in one hour rowing at a vigorous intensity.