Why is a rowing company making a SkiErg?
Although Concept2 is best known as a rowing company, quite a few members of the Concept2 family are skiers. Up here in northern Vermont, the lakes are frozen for at least half the year, and there’s plenty of snow during the winter. Skiing and rowing are two of the most aerobically demanding sports and serve as effective cross-training in opposite seasons. Both sports use the entire body, requiring the heart and lungs to provide oxygen to many muscles of the body at once. In fact, we’ve been using variations of our rowing erg for ski training for quite a few years now. We first played with this idea in 1982, using parts from the Model A Indoor Rower. We have recently fine-tuned our designs for skiing, and are excited to bring this technology to skiers.
