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Concept2, Inc. is an American manufacturer of rowing equipment and exercise machines based in Morrisville, Vermont.It is best known for its air resistance indoor rowing machines (known as "ergometers" or "ergs"), which are considered the standard training and testing machines for competition rowers and can be found in most gyms.
Richard Alan Dreissigacker (born March 26, 1947, in New Haven, Connecticut) is a former American Olympic rower [1] and a founder of Concept2, a manufacturer of rowing equipment. [2] While studying engineering at Brown University he took up rowing and went on to represent the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
An indoor rower, or rowing machine, is a machine used to simulate the action of watercraft rowing for the purpose of exercise or training for rowing. Modern indoor rowers are known as ergometers (colloquially erg or ergo ) because they measure work performed by the rower (that can be measured in ergs ).
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Concept Two, concept ii, CONCEPT 2, or variation, may refer to: Concept2, a rowing equipment and exercise machine manufacturer; Rimac Concept Two, an all-electric ...
Pair (2-) or (2+) A shell with 2 rowers. The Coxless pair (2-), often called a straight pair, is a demanding but satisfying boat to master. Coxed pairs (2+) are rarely rowed by most club and school programs. It is no longer an Olympic class event, but it continues to be rowed at the World Rowing Championships.
Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically attached to the boat, and the rower drives the oar like a lever, exerting force in the same direction as the boat's travel; while paddles are completely hand-held and have no attachment to the boat, and are driven like a cantilever, exerting force opposite ...
The gamut2 is an indoor rowing machine (or "erg") designed to duplicate the motion and feel of sweep rowing in a racing scull. It enables the coach to evaluate the stroke of individual rowers, including the power applied during the different phases of the stroke.