Hoe Erg is Huidkanker?

Huidkanker en melanoom: symptomen, herkennen en kenmerken

Er zijn 3 grote types huidkanker : het spinocellulair carcinoom, het basocellulair carcinoom, en het melanoom. De eerste twee types noemt men de non-melanoma huidkankers. Deze zijn relatief ongevaarlijk, maar moeten uiteraard ook behandeld en opgevolgd worden. Eén persoon op zes krijgt hier ooit mee te maken! Dit is frequenter dan borstkanker bij vrouwen!

Het melanoom daarentegen is een echte doder. Eén persoon op vijftig krijgt ooit een melanoom.

Deze 3 types samen maken dat dit de meest voorkomende kanker is!

Huidkanker is de meest voorkomende kanker

Who Invented the Erg?

You can trace the roots of the ergometer all the way back to the 1800s when a man named William B. Curtis invented the indoor rowing machine.

The original machines did not have much resistance, and while many people played around with the design, adding weights or other devices, the indoor rower didn’t change much until the 1970s.

In the early ’80s, the first Concept2 model came out with a flywheel made out of a bicycle wheel. Modern indoor rowers followed suit, but while they are very different from what Curtis had designed decades ago, many still use the flywheel system today!

What Is the Difference Between a Rowing Machine and an Erg?

The rowing machine itself is not the erg in the same way that an exercise bike is not the speedometer.

Rowers are the devices that you use to exercise. The ergometer is what measures your training and performance so that you can monitor your progress and compare that progress with previous workouts over time.

Imagine that you are riding a bicycle. If you can only go 9MPH this week but can do 12MPH the next week, the speed is an accurate measurement of your improvement.

The erg has inspired many to exercise longer and harder than before in order to beat their own record or for the team to beat another team in a race.

Why Are Rowers Called Ergs?

Erg or ergs, sometimes even ergo, is short for ergometer. This phrase came into use in the 1980s when Dick and Peter Dreissigacker were creating their rowing machine.

Brothers Dick and Peter Dreissigacker wanted to track their progress as much as they wanted to train. They also wanted to compete against each other and their friends.

Is Erging a Good Workout?

When you realize just how effective rowing is, you might wonder why more people aren’t taking up erging!

A rowing workout uses 86 percent of the muscles in the body at one time. This means that with every rowing stroke, you are exercising 86 percent of your muscles! No other workout can give you that!

Depending on your current weight and age, as well as the intensity of your workout, you can burn hundreds of calories an hour. In fact, you can burn 900 calories or more per hour doing an intense rowing workout.

On top of all that, using an indoor rower is a low-impact exercise, which means that your joints don’t take all the abuse that other exercise machines can, such as treadmills.

The performance monitor, or ergometer, will measure your calorie burn, distance completed, strokes per minute, meters per second, and more.

Many of the newer smart rowers, such as Hydrow and Ergatta, measures work done on your rowing machine including heart rate, split time, power (measured in watts), how many intervals you’ve completed, and how many remain (if you are doing HIIT workouts), and many others.

If you’re really into statistics and numbers, the erg on the Ergatta is the most sophisticated and detailed erg I’ve ever seen! (And I’ve probably seen hundreds of ergs!)

Rowing will take you to a new level of fitness and open up the world of benefits that exercise gives you!

Does a Rowing Ergometer Build Muscle?

You bet it does! Well, OK, the erg itself doesn’t, but your work on the rowing machine does!

Take one look at those Olympic rowers ( find out how to become an Olympic Rower ) or National USA rowers, and you will see what I mean.

Yes, they probably do other types of workouts, including weight lifting, but the truth is that rowing is a complete workout all by itself.

Doelgerichte behandeling bij uitgezaaid melanoom (huidkanker)

Als er uitzaaiingen zijn die niet meer te verwijderen zijn, kan ook een doelgerichte behandeling (BRAF-, MEK- of c-KIT- remmers) overwogen worden. Om te beoordelen of u in aanmerking komt voor een dergelijke behandeling moet eerst het oorspronkelijke melanoom of een uitzaaiing onderzocht worden op bepaalde eigenschappen (mutaties). Deze doelgerichte behandeling is in tabletvorm en moet dagelijks ingenomen worden. Deze therapie wordt gegeven door de medisch oncoloog in samenwerking met een dermatoloog.

Immunotherapie bestaat uit antistoffen (ipilimumab) die via een infuus toegediend worden. Deze antistoffen kunnen de afweer tegen het melanoom versterken. Omdat de immunotherapie soms pas na een aantal maanden effect kan hebben, wordt in het algemeen na ongeveer 3 maanden de werkzaamheid beoordeeld. Als de behandeling een gunstig effect blijkt te hebben, dan kan dit positieve effect zeer lang aanhouden. Deze behandeling wordt gegeven door de medisch oncoloog.

The Bottom Line

Rowing machines are the best exercise machines when it comes to burning calories and getting a full-body workout.

The erg is what makes the workout more fun. If you like the idea of being able to measure your progress with more than just the bathroom scale, you will love erging.

Rowing is the perfect exercise machine for the entire family. I’ve even seen 4-year-olds using them! The low-impact nature of a rowing workout means that you can use it even if you’ve been injured or have a health-related issue like bad knees or arthritis.

Since rowing spreads the effort you put into it across your entire body, you won’t be as sore or have muscle stiffness as you can get with other types of exercise.

Whether you want to beat your own time and see how much farther and faster you can go, or you’re the competitive type and you want racing and comparing your performance against other rowers, then erging is right up your alley.

Athletes around the world use the erg device to help them improve at their chosen sport, so why shouldn’t you?

If you’re interested in some of the new smart rowers, you might find this interesting.

Row healthy and be happy, friends!