ERGOMETER MAINTENANCE RULES

Some of you may have noticed we have five brand new rowing machines – beautiful shiny black ones – around the school (we have another five coming soon too).

Kane (aka Pleasantville or Hannibal Lector) has some wise words about taking care of the new rowing machines.

He says:

“Don’t scare this poor little fella’ when you are using the erg!”

Kane also says:

Some of you may be thinking to yourselves, “What in the world is an erg?” That is a fair question. An erg (short for ergometer) is a rowing machine, and if any of you have seen most of ours lately, they are in a very sorry state indeed.

Why?

I’m glad you asked.

The main reason is that people can push themselves to the point of total exhaustion on the erg (if you’ve done a 2km piece for time lately you’ll understand what I’m getting at) and at the end of their work they let the handle slam back towards the front of the machine.

This is a big no no. Due to the erg being made up of multiple delicate working parts, it means that they can be broken very easily. Furthermore, they are incredibly difficult to fix/absurdly expensive to replace (roughly $1,000 per machine).

So, next time you have the urge to let go on the oar handle, or drop the machine, or smash the computer back towards the flywheel, stop, think, and above all be gentle.

New rule: Dropping, smashing, or abusing either the old or new machines in any way will be met with a thorough flogging! Oh, and wipe the machines down when you’re done!!

So, to repeat: don’t scare the baby, he loves ergs.

With love,

The CrossFit Vancouver Erg Maintenance Team – ie. Kane

WEDNESDAY:

WARM-UP: Coaches choice sprinting warm-up

TECH: TABATA SPRINTING (10 intervals instead of 8)

WOD: AMRAP 12 Minutes

2 Muscle Ups (Progression: 3 Ring Dips per muscle up. No pull ups today. We did plenty on Monday)
6 Pistols (TRY OVERHEAD PISTOLS WITH A 35 or 45 lb. BAR IF YOU’RE REALLY BALSY)
21 Double Unders

EUNICE and KERMIT