Hi there, My name is Victoria Blackman - I'm 27 and engaged to my wonderful fiance Tim! Our wedding is in 9 months on 5 January 2013 and my aim is to trim and tone up before the wedding on my new Concept 2 indoor rowing machine. I have chosen my wedding dress and it is being made to measure. My dress measurements are being taken in July so this will be the true test to see if I have shed any inch… Read full post
Update from THE SQUAD http://www.britishrowing.org/gb-rowing-team/the-squad With the World Cup season underway, we look at race strategy in our feature How To Win. Key figures from the M4- and M8+ crews - including Pete Reed, Tom James and Moe Sbihi, plus coach John West - explains the thinking which goes behind a well executed race. As Pete Reed puts it: "We try to become professors of our spor… Read full post
So... here it is my first blog for Concept2, and what an honour it is to be associated with such an awesome range of products. Allow me to introduce myself; I am Kevin McLernon, this year I won ITV1's The Biggest Loser. I started the competition as the heaviest person ever to compete in the show in the UK at 32 stone and 2 lbs, that's 450lbs or 204kg. In 24 weeks I went on to shed 12 stone and 12l… Read full post
Eirian has finished her challenge of walking across the Arctic! She dropped us a quick email this week to let us know of her return. "I finished the trek safe and sound last week, with just a burnt face and tendon damage in my wrist (which annoyingly means I can't row for a couple of weeks!). The rowing beforehand really did help though so thank you so much for all the help with technique and th… Read full post
Well...April started very well with a really good recorded time for us at the Boston Rowing Marathon and we have set a new course record as we did it in a coastal 2- and as the message we got from Andrew Triggs Hodge says "I think you have truly done something that won't be attempted soon! Massive respect!" quite happy with that. But the biggest thing is the fitness and stamina that I have been a… Read full post
Firefighters have praised a group of students from NEW College for their hard work in promoting the Fire Service's FireFit Challenge during an open day at the Redditch campus on Saturday (21 April). The FireFit Challenge is a national initiative aimed at encouraging both Fire Service staff and those in the wider community to get more active ahead of this year's Olympic Games. Locally, Hereford &a… Read full post
The rowing challenge held at Sixways before the Worcester Warriors v Exeter Chiefs match on Saturday (14 April) has helped boost the total mileage in Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Services (HWFRS) FireFit Challenge. The FireFit Challenge is a national initiative aimed at encouraging both Fire Service staff and those in the wider community to get active and improve their health and fi… Read full post
This week on THE SQUAD we take a look at Northwich Rowing Club (est. 1875) and the GB Rowing Centre at Caversham (est. 2006): two contrasting faces of British rowing, but both vital - in their different ways - to the health of rowing in this country. The link to both is Matt Langridge, 2011 M4- World Champion and 2008 M8+ Olympic silver medallist. Matt took his camera along to the club where he le… Read full post
On Friday 23rd March 1,750 young people (aged 11 to 18) gathered from all over the country at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre in North London to take part in the sixth annual National Junior Indoor Rowing Championship - organised by the charity London Youth Rowing (LYR). With 80 rowing machines in action simultaneously as teams competed fiercely for medals, and with four giant screens tracking th… Read full post
Paul contacted us last week to let me know that he was attempting the 100k Indoor Rowing record... So, a local coastal rowing club (Rushbrooke) with close ties to the one I recently joined (Whitegate) are commemorating the 100th anniversary of the maiden voyage and subsequent tragic sinking on the Titanic - with an 82 hour row on concept2 indoor rowing machines in the centre of Cobh (the last por… Read full post
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