Concept2 Forum

I do a fair amount of work with my hands restoring historic properties and rowing adds to their stress. Mornings were brutal and I took to sleeping with splint like braces on my hands. Took a little getting use to but the numbness is mostly gone.

I think the Calorie readout is based on a 175lb rower. I check Cals on my PM2 at the end of each session, and the value is remarkably close to the number I get from my Polar F4, often within 1 or 2%. That's just luck, of course; as my weight and fitness level change, the values should grow further ...

:?: Does anyone know exactly how calories are calculated by our rowers? When I get off the machine and it says XXX calories, clearly it is based on some assumed body weight. Do we know what weight that is? How do SPM enter into tthe picture. Will rowing at 34SPM vs 32SPM for 45 min really make much ...

it is pretty funny reading how fit/slim people can argue over how many calories are burnt for a given amount of effort. But there is Debbie -K wondering if she can use the rower to loose weight. Debbie, as a pretty big guy rowing at 34-36 SPM for about 40-60 min a day I have to add some weights to b...

:D Glad you found the rower. It has been great having one. I come home from work and don't think about anything but getting on the machine and letting the day's concerns fall away. Be some what forgiving of your self if you can only go some far. Slow and steady is a good course of action and a reaso...

I subscribe to Netflix and plug my head phones into the front of this TV and I am working my way throgh the Academy Awards.
It almost doesn't matter what I watch.

:D Willy old fat guys can do this too. I know cause I am one. At 59 and 305 I got my rower out of the basement, oiled the chain and said I needed to dump some weight. I used to be a tournement racket ball player but the knees went and the wrist went and I got lazy. The rower supplimented the racket ...