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Rowing is a great form of exercise for kids and a perfect fit for schools.
Here’s why:

  • The Concept2 Indoor Rower fits people of all sizes.
  • The user controls the intensity of the exercise, so each student can row as hard or as easily as is appropriate for them.
  • The performance monitor provides simple but useful data that kids understand—distance, calories, time.
  • Some kids will be much more successful with rowing than with other fitness options. For example, bigger heavier kids may dislike running, but they can often be very effective and successful at rowing. Kids with poor vision, or weak hand/eye coordination, may thrive on the indoor rower.
  • The units of output can be easily adapted to classroom activities: meters convert to distance on a map for geography projects; watts relates to science class.
  • Recent articles suggest that exercise can be an effective treatment for attention-deficit disorders, and rowing is one of the exercises that has helped some kids to focus better.
  • The mechanics of the indoor rower itself are simple and easy for kids to grasp.
  • The Online Community is rich with resources including rowing challenges, logbooks, and rankings for kids and schools.
  • The Fish Game allows kids to play a 4 minute game on the Performance Monitor while also getting their exercise!
  • In learning to row, kids are learning a sport which they can do for the rest of their lives.

    And finally, kids seem to just like rowing!

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Concept 2 Schools Training Guide

The Concept 2 Schools Training Guide from the UK is an essential resource for anybody wanting to use the Indoor Rower in a school. As well as detailed information on technique and how to use the Indoor Rower in a safe and constructive fashion, the Guide also covers all aspects of indoor rowing in schools, from how to integrate the rowing machine into different areas of the curriculum, on how to use it to establish competitions and leagues, to detailed lesson plans, to how to raise money using the Indoor Rower and much more.

school training guide You can download either the entire 98-page Training Guide or just download some of the individual chapters below.

Concept 2 Schools Training Guide – 1,812 kb

Chapters

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National Secondary Schools Indoor Rowing Championships

The New Zealand Secondary Schools Indoor Rowing Championships were held at Bethlehem College, Tauranga, on Sunday 14th October.

Harry Simperingham from Rotorua Boys’ High School powered his Concept 2 rowing machine to three victories from three events, winning the 500m and 2km races before joining rowing eight team-mates Cody Ryan-Bates, Geoff Howei and Shane Hyde to win the Under 19 team event.

Whakatane rowers also bagged their share of medals with Keegan Boyle taking home three gold medals in the Under 15 boys’ events, Regan Barkla claiming three golds in the girls’ Under 19 races and Megan Vaughn winning gold in the 500m and 2km events and silver in the teams race. Vaughn also annihilated the existing records in her individual races.

The boys’ Under 19 lightweight team from Whakatane High School also broke the record in their event. The next event on the rowing calender is the Blue Lake Club Regatta on November 11.

For the full results click here


Geoff Howes, Shane Hyde,Cody Ryan-Bates and
Harry Simperingham, from Rotorua Boys High
School win the Gold in the Under 19 team.
Gary Reid of Concept 2 with the Rotorua Boys
High School Under 19 team event Gold medalists.

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