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I am curious; when a gym purchases Concept 2 rowers, do they receive instruction on how to instruct members the proper way to use the machines?

I ask because I have never seen at my gym one of the certified trainers properly instruct someone how to use the rowers. In fact today when I was trying for a marathon (got interrupted by a "come get me" from my kid) one of the instructors was teaching a member to use it sooooo incorrectly, I had to chime in and inform him of the proper form and way to use the rower. He said "Really? I didn't know that, I just go by what my high school coach told me". Then he said, you know there is a lady here who loves this machine; she rows over 2 and a half hours a day, some time she is here 8 hours I hear. I said I "know, she is me" and laughed. Then I said , okay I like to work out at the point where it is hard to talk, I got to speed up.

He looked at me like I was crazy and walked away. I guess cos I am not lean, I cant be mean...

Welcome to the real world.

I've never yet seen any member of staff at any gym anywhere who wasn't 100% clueless on how the ergo works and how it should be used.

Citroen wrote:Welcome to the real world.

I've never yet seen any member of staff at any gym anywhere who wasn't 100% clueless on how the ergo works and how it should be used.

And more in general, they are rather clueless overall. The erg is a very specific tool, not much need to know how it works.

Well, in SoCal there are at least three coaches that know rowing inside and out, erg or OTW, Jack Nunn, Josh Crosby, and Xeno Muller. I don't think that Xeno has a facility any more, but, as far as I know, the other two are still in business.

Bob S.

Note: Crossfit has a certification program for their instructors, but I don't know how well their program filters down to the local crossfit facilities, but from videos I have seen of the instructor training program, it looked very good.

I used to be a gym trainer back when I was body building; I tried to be on top of how to do everything correctly. I guess these days these kids just care about getting the paycheck while being able to just sit around and talk.... LOL