One Wellington man has learned the hard way not to use the waterfront as a place to use his rowing machine during the lockdown.

Mark Brown, 57, brought his rowing machine from his garage across the road to Oriental Parade and was working out to jazz music playing from his UE Boom bluetooth speaker.

He's been rowing there ever since Wellington Rowing Club closed three weeks ago.

Although he normally trains for an average of 40 minutes, he had upped it to more than an hour recently. "I'm not doing much else now," he said. "I'm happy here as long as people don't mind my music."

ROSA WOODS/STUFF Police are warning people to keep their distance and stay local when out and about, after people flocked to Oriental Pde for an afternoon walk on Sunday.

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Brown is one of 30 master rowers at the club.

He said he was going to draw a circle around him, to make sure a two-metre radius around his machine was kept. "But I can't take up the whole pavement."

But unfortunately for Brown, not long after he spoke to Stuff, a police officer asked him to go back inside his home due to the activity being classified as stationary exercise.

Police on Sunday issued a warning to the hundreds of people who flocked to Oriental Pde for some afternoon sun.