Hey GAR Masters,
 
It's that time of year again - erg baby erg!
 
See information below for the holiday challenge -
 
See you on the water soon..........
 
Amber



  

If you are having trouble viewing this email visit www.concept2.com/emailings/nov07eclubnews/eclubnews_1107.html Welcome to Concept2’s e-Club News for November 2007 This issue is chock full of information to help you and your members get the most out of the Concept2 Indoor Rowers at your club! 1. Holiday Challenge 2007 2. Fall Rowing Challenge Wrap-Up 3. Serving Seniors 4. Upcoming Events and Opportunities for Trainers 5. PM Tech Tip  Holiday Challenge 2007   (top) Ready for the next challenge? This one will keep you fit through the holidays! The 8th Holiday Challenge is open to individuals worldwide—no team required! Encourage your members to participate! Start date: Thursday, November 22 (American Thanksgiving) End date: Monday, December 24 (Christmas Eve) at midnight That’s 33 days to complete the challenge. The Challenge: Choose one of the following goals for your total meters rowed: 100,000 meters (an average of 3,030 meters per day) 200,000 meters (an average of 6,060 meters per day) 50,000 meters for Kids aged 16 and under (an average of 1,515 meters per day) Adaptive rowers may choose either 50K, 100K or 200K It’s easy to participate. All you need is a Concept2 Online Logbook where you will enter all the meters you row. If you don’t already have an online logbook, here’s how to create one: 1.       Visit the Concept2 Online Logbook. 2.       Under New Users, click Register. 3.       On the Profile page, enter all required information, and click Submit. 4.       When you see the “Thank You” message, click Continue. 5.       Log in with the user name and password you just created to begin logging your meters! Prizes! When you reach your goal and enter in all your meters in your online logbook, a link automatically becomes available in the Challenges tab of your online logbook. Clicking this link displays instructions for downloading a FREE custom-designed certificate recognizing your completion of the challenge. Those who complete 200,000m (and kids and adaptive rowers completing 50,000m) will also receive a special pin. Pins are FREE and sent automatically to the address in your profile, so please be sure the mailing address in your profile is current and correct. There is no need to place an order for your pin—just be sure your profile is up to date. In addition, 200K finishers, 50K kids and adaptive rowers may purchase their choice of 2007 Holiday Challenge T-shirt from cafepress.com. T-shirt ordering information will appear automatically on your Online Logbook Challenges page when you enter all your meters (200K or 50K for kids) in your online logbook. Check out Holiday Challenge 2007 for complete details.  Fall Rowing Challenge Wrap-Up   (top)   Another successful Fall Rowing Challenge came to a close on October 15, 2007. A total of 828 participants from 79 different teams rowed a total of over 78 million meters between September 15 and October 15, 2007. This year, Concept2 provided Concept2 carabiner keychains for everyone completing at least 100,000 meters and Concept2 travel mugs for everyone completing at least 200,000 meters. There were also downloadable challenge certificates, a downloadable iron-on transfer and a selection of Fall Rowing Challenge T-shirts available for purchase from cafepress.com/frc2007. In addition, we held a random drawing of participating clubs and selected the winner of a brand new indoor rower. The winner is Saratoga Springs YMCA in Saratoga Springs, New York. Congratulations to all participants! For a glimpse of the action at one of our participating clubs, here’s a video produced by an Albany area local news station about the challenge winner, Saratoga Springs YMCA. View CBS6 Albany TV coverage of Saratoga Springs YMCA in the challenge Fall Rowing Challenge Statistics: Total number of meters rowed:   78,745,613 Total number of teams:   79 Total number of participants:   828 Participants rowing 200,000 meters or more:   120 Participants rowing 100,000-199,999 meters:   262 Teams with at least 10 people rowing 100,000 meters:   15 Team with the most participants:   The Zone Fitness Studio, Bangalore, India  93 participants Winner of random drawing for an indoor rower:  Saratoga Springs YMCA Top Five Teams: Saratoga Springs YMCA, Saratoga Springs, NY    7,403,175 meters The Zone Fitness Studio, Bangalore, India   5,139,775 meters Concept2 - Morrisville, VT    3,536,592 meters  Spa Fitness Center   3,290,467 meters  Olympia Area Rowing   2,893,733 meters Top Five Individuals: Brian Kent  Sinistar's Rowing Club  M    1,079,561 meters Dave Gray  Team Vilseck Elementary  M    931,098 meters Charles Petraske  Saratoga Springs YMCA  M    763,614 meters Kimberly Lahut  Saratoga Springs YMCA  F    755,000 meters Steve Crouch  TEAM PREMIER  M    655,000 meters Top Five Men: Brian Kent  Sinistar's Rowing Club  M  1,079,561 meters  Dave Gray  Team Vilseck Elementary  M  931,098 meters  Charles Petraske  Saratoga Springs YMCA  M  763,614 meters  Steve Crouch  TEAM PREMIER  M  655,000 meters  Michael McAra  Missisauga YMCA (CAN)  M  615,155 meters Top Five Women: Kimberly Lahut  Saratoga Springs YMCA  F  755,000 meters  Margaret French  Saratoga Springs YMCA  F  600,600 meters  Petra Woosley  Spa Fitness Center  F  539,090 meters  Angelika Bronner  Saratoga Springs YMCA  F  320,793 meters  Rajni N.G  The Zone Fitness Studio,Bangalore,India  F  311,847 meters     Click here for complete FRC Results.  Serving Seniors   (top) The Concept2 Indoor Rower offers a number of unique advantages and benefits to the aging population. More and more fitness centers are targeting this growing population, and rowing is a great way to reach them. Here’s why: User-controlled intensity: The Concept2 Indoor Rower allows seniors to row as hard or as easily as they like. The harder the rower pulls, the more resistance and the harder the workout will be. This is why our machine can be used by everyone from cardiac rehab patients to Olympic athletes. There is no danger of being forced to pull too hard. Seated exercise: For anyone with balance issues, the indoor rower is a terrific option. It allows the user to get full-body exercise from a seated position. In addition, the seated position is advantageous for people with a variety of foot and leg problems. It takes the full body weight off the legs and feet, but still allows the user to exercise and strengthen those areas while also promoting flexibility. Solution for vision impairment: For anyone with impaired vision, or even blindness, rowing is the perfect fitness solution. Concept2 offers free software called ErgChatter that gives a voice to the Performance Monitor, enabling vision-impaired rowers to hear their elapsed time, pace, meters rowed, etc, throughout their workout. Visit concept2.com/ergchatter for more information. Connection to a community: Rowing offers a vibrant community for seniors to join. They can join a challenge at their club or an online virtual team. There are even virtual teams composed entirely of rowers over 60! Read Oct/Nov 2007 Onsite Fitness's article  "Building a Senior Community with the C2 Indoor Rower."  Upcoming Events and Opportunities for Trainers   (top) Trade Show News: Concept2 will be a vendor at the Athletic Business Conference & Expo, November 29 – December 1, in Orlando, Florida. Over 300 manufacturers, suppliers, architects and consultants will be exhibiting at the conference with the latest products and innovations from the sports, recreation, fitness, active-aging and medical fitness industries. Stop by and visit us at booth number 1033. Training and Certification: Exceptional training is the foundation of delivering safe and effective exercise programs. When building an indoor/group rowing program in your facility, one of the most essential elements is developing highly trained personal trainers and group fitness instructors. Indoor Rowing Training and Certification by Rowbics ensures your club is able to teach members proper technique, offer innovative workouts and provide results for your members. Training and certification is offered throughout the country and can be hosted in your facility or in one of our locations in the U.S. Check out our training workshops calendar, which now features an interactive map to make it easy to find the training opportunities nearest you. Gold’s Gyms: Concept2 is now a Gold’s Gym International Preferred Vendor. Contact Tracy Desrocher at tracyd@... for more information.  PM Tech Tip   (top) Interval Workouts with the PM3 or PM4 Interval Workouts are a powerful training tool. They help you build intensity and add structure and interest to longer workouts. It’s easy to set up interval workouts on the PM3 and PM4. By presetting the Performance Monitor to run your interval workouts, the Performance Monitor will count down your work time/distance and rest time, and store results in Memory or on a LogCard. From the Main Menu, press Select Workout > New Workout. Choose the type of interval you wish to do: Intervals: Distance, Intervals: Time or Intervals: Variable. Enter the work time or distance for each interval along with the rest time. When you have entered all the intervals in your variable interval workout, press: No More Intervals. If you are using a LogCard, you will be given the opportunity to save the workout as a “Favorite.” If you think you may want to do the workout again another day, save it. You can always replace it with something else later. The PM will display your first interval and will await your first stroke, when it will begin timing the workout.

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