Posted by admin | Posted in Home Health | Posted on 04-08-2011
- Indoor rowing machine with sliding seat for complete total body workouts
- Quiet flywheel minimizes noise while providing smooth feel of water rowing
- Lets rowers choose between sleek, fast boat and slow, heavy boat
- PM3 performance monitor tracks your distance, speed, pace, and calories
- Requires footprint of 9 x 4 feet; 500-pound capacity; 5-year frame warranty
Product Description
Manufactured by the company that set the standard in rowing, the Concept2 Model D Indoor Rower delivers proven performance and fitness benefits. Concept2 Indoor Rowers are used worldwide by Olympic athletes, cardiac rehab patients, and every caliber of rower in between. Rowing provides superb total-body cardiovascular conditioning in a smooth impact-free exercise. A great investment, this commercial-grade machine is recommended for home use and supported with free online motivational tools such as the Concept2 online logbook, rowing challenges and training forum. The self-calibrating Performance Monitor (PM3), included with each Model D, displays workout data, five display options, a LogCard to record results, games and more! Every Concept2 Indoor Rower comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and limited 2-year parts, 5-year frame warranty.Amazon.com Product Description
Whether you already row or are considering rowing as a way to keep in shape, cross train for another sport, or compete on the water, the Concept2 Model D indoor rowing machine is a terrific choice. Rowing offers several benefits over other exercises: it exercises your entire body, including the arms, legs, chest, back, and abs; its low-impact rhythm is easy on the knees and ankles; it burns a ton of calories because it uses so many muscle groups; and it relieves stress. The Model D adds to these benefits by offering such features as a quiet flywheel that’s designed to minimize noise while providing the smooth feel of rowing on the water, along with a spiral damper that lets rowers choose the feel of a sleek, fast boat or a slow, heavy boat.
The Model D offers a different rowing experience than the rowing you did as a kid. The difference lies in the sliding seat, which compresses and extends your legs with every stroke, in addition to the more obvious work being done by the back and arms. This promotes both strength and flexibility throughout the wide range of leg and arm motion, while challenging the back in the middle of the stroke and the abs at the end. In addition, customers say that the rhythmic nature of rowing helps clear the head and ease the stress of the day.
The Model D comes with a PM3 performance monitor that accurately tracks your distance, speed, pace, calories, and watts, with five display options for rowers–all data, force curve, rowing with a pace boat, bar chart, and large print. The monitor also provides easy menu-driven operation, letting you access a powerful list of features, including preset and favorite workouts, trials against a previous performance or pace boat, FISH games, animated rowers that teach techniques, and multiple language options. If motivation is what you need, you’ll find it in Concept2’s online challenges, Million Meter Club, and online ranking.
The Model D is also notably comfortable, with an ergonomic handle that allows for a natural arm and hand position; an aluminum rail capped with a stainless-steel track for smooth seat movements; and adjustable Flex-foot footrests. Other details include a removable LogCard that stores your workout data and personal preferences; built-in heart rate monitoring with an optional Polar receiver (sold separately); a USB interface for easy data transfer to a PC or Mac; caster wheels for quick mobility; and a collapsible design for efficient transport and storage.
The Model D requires a footprint of 9 by 4 feet for use and offers a weight capacity of 500 pounds. It also carries a five-year warranty on frame parts and a two-year warranty on moving parts and the monitor.
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Sale Price: $900.00
Total Costumer Reviews:(62)
The product is fine. Reasonable value for money in the US. A bit of nuisance to have to transport it from the US but UK price is nearly twice as much and at that level is extremely poor value. Don’t buy in the UK until the UK distributor adopts a more reasonable price policy.
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Fui remador da equipe brasileira por 20 anos e eu sempre nessa máquina. Tive a oportunidade de adquirir o concept2 em uma viagem que fiz aos Estados Unidos e trouxe para o Brasil e treinamento diário nele, é ótimo, perfeito para atletas profissionais e amadores.
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I strap on 2- or 3-pound wrist weights, put my i-Pod on Shuffle, and row for 60 or 70 minutes (with a goal of 208 meters per minute), at the end of which I’m hungry, beat, and in as good a mood as I will be all day. All that’s left to do is stretch your back on a fitness ball and eat pretty much whatever you want and as much as you want. All that’s missing is actual travel on the thing. It’s the best for a quick, satisfying workout.
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Concept 2 makes the best rowing machines you can buy. The model D was quick to assemble, and is amazingly light and easy to move around on the front wheels by simply lifting the back end up (which can be easily done with one hand). I’m a big heavy guy, and the rower is rock solid.
Rowing is amazing exercise, allowing you to exert yourself as much or as little as you’re able, and giving you a pretty much full body workout as well as being excellent cardio. I highly recommend this machine to both rowers and anyone looking to get in better shape
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15 years ago I was 18 and was introduced to the Concept 2 by friends in Crew. My very first Concept 2 workout was the best workout I’d ever had, but I never got much time on the Erg.
Years passed and bicycling and running were my almost exclusive workouts. After a couple knee injuries, trading my bike for a motorcar, and putting on 20 pounds (not muscle) I have to be a little more deliberate about my exercise.
The wife and I got a treadmill to help in training for our first marathon and we set up the whole garage for working out on a stationary bike or treadmill while watching dvds. But something was missing…
Out of nowhere I had an insane impulse to order up a Concept 2 rower.
Reading many of the other reviews I had the OPPOSITE experience regarding the price. Other reviewers were reluctant to pay the $900. Without having any idea what the rower would cost, and knowing the incredible quality of the machine and the amazing workout it offered I actually expected it to cost far more. I was steeling myself for it to cost $1500-$2000. When I saw it was ONLY $900 I jumped on it.
This machine is awesome. It’s still the best workout ever. I wish I could share it with the world. While I’m rowing I actually fantasize about throwing it into the back of the truck and setting it up at a park for people to have a turn. Although I have no intention actually doing this, in reality it wouldn’t be very difficult, since the machine is surprisingly portable.
I think I saw where other people got a DVD showing rowing technique. I actually didn’t get one. I don’t know if that was an oversight or if they’ve discontinued providing the DVD, but it was very easy to go to the Concept 2 website and see several good demonstrations of technique.
Its a good idea to watch these videos to prevent injury and to avoid ingraining bad habits. Most helpful to me has been learning to use the feature that shows power distribution between the strokes. I thought I had great form but saw that I had “two peaks” it was good to correct this early.
The Concept 2 is a terrific machine, and it’s the one exercise I can do while “spacing out” or listening to music. For some reason on my treadmill I go crazy if I don’t distract myself with DVDs. On the Concept 2 I can get an excellent workout while just enjoying the scenery of my backyard or watching my dogs.
I do have a criticism which is this: the computer display is NOT compatible with my Mac.
The Mac is a wonderful computer and I actually suspect that many of the “type” of people who get into rowing are probably the “type” of people who would own Macintosh computers. They are simply superior computers for general, all around use, and they are used by a sizable minority of schools and homes. Why the heck didn’t my unit ship ready to plug and play with my Mac?
If I want to keep track of my meters rowed for the “Million Meter” club I have to do it manually on a clipboard, or find some other solution. That’s pretty annoying.
And speaking of the Million Meter club, I went to the site to read up on it and found that the Million Meter T-shirts are not available anymore. What’s that all about? I know it’s just a shirt, but it’s not just a shirt, it’s a trophy; it’s something to reach for… and it’s “No longer available”? That’s pretty crappy. How much could it cost to print up a bunch of t-shirts and just have them ready on a shelf? Free advertising for Concept 2, too. Tsk tsk tsk.
Oh well, I bought the Concept 2 for an awesome workout. The “display downloading to my computer” and the little incentives clubs were just gravy. And who eats gravy, anyway?
Edit: Oh, I forgot. One more tiny little complaint… the “Calories burned” feature is set to assume the user is a 175 pound male. (Which I am not.) I found this out on the C2 website. I know that “calories burned” are almost never accurate on workout equipment, and I’m not a calorie freak, but it would be nice to be able to get a better approximation based on my own stats.
Weight loss is only one of my fitness goals, so this is definitely not a deal breaker. I still love the machine. Just one of those little “hang-nails” that proves I’m not dreaming.
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