The company facilitates a community of home-based rowers who maintain online logs hosted on the Concept2 web site. It was designed for Bench press, Leg press, and Seated row exercises and used a flywheel to provide resistance.
The Dyno was an air resistance strength training machine sold by Concept2 from 2001 until 2007. Each pull engages the arms, shoulders, core and legs in a downwards "crunch" making it a total body workout. The SkiErg uses the same mechanical concept that the company's indoor rowers do, but the user is in a standing position pulling on two handles emulating the double-pole technique found in Nordic skiing. The SkiErg is a ski ergometer that helps build strength and endurance specific to Nordic skiing. In June 2009, Concept2 introduced their newest product, the SkiErg. As such it is a class of ergometer (Greek: measuring work), and competitive rowers rarely refer to the machine as an "indoor rower," but use the older name "erg" or "ergo" (short for ergometer). The indoor rower's nickname comes from its measurement of the power output of oarsmen/women. Both D & E models are used for indoor rowing events such as BIRC and CRASH-B. That changed in September 2006, when Concept2 upgraded their Model D and began selling a new prosumer-oriented Model E (priced around $400/£300 above Model D) that provides a higher rowing position with extra layers of paint/varnish, ships with a more advanced ("PM4") monitor and bundles an ANT+HR-compatible Garmin heart rate belt. Until 2006 the company produced and sold only one model of indoor rower at any time. The product was an instant success and has been revised over the years with the Model B (1986), Model C (1993), Model D (2003) and the Model E (2006) At the time the indoor machines on the market cost $3,000 but the brothers (with help from friend Jon Williams) sold theirs for $600. In 1981, the brothers had the idea of making an indoor rowing machine (the Model A) made mainly from bicycle parts. Many elite rowers use Concept2 oars, and together with Croker oars they make up the majority of oars used in international competition. These improved a team's performance by 1 or 2% and became popular so quickly that by 1992 most of the Olympic crews were using them. In 1991, the company came out with asymmetrical "hatchet" oar blades. Oarsĭreissigacker oars were well received by the rowing community and quickly established themselves as one of the major players in the market.
Their first office was in the back of a bread truck until they bought a farm in Morrisville, Vermont, USA. When they were not selected for the team, they founded the company and started selling carbon fiber oars. The two brothers trialed for the American team for the 1976 Summer Olympics and while preparing, they modified their oars with carbon fiber in an attempt to go faster. The company was founded in 1976 by rowing brothers Dick and Pete Dreissigacker.
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