CrossFit Rowing Trainer Course - Canton, MA - May 4, 2013

Start time is 8:45am. Meals are on your own.


Spend one day with CrossFit Coach Erin Cafaro to maximize your skill and familiarity with rowing, an important component of many CrossFit workouts. Participants will learn rowing technique, technical error analysis and correction, verbal cues, rowing physiology and kinesiology, how to structure a CrossFit rowing workout, maximizing rowing power and efficiency, increasing rowing power output for better WOD times/scores and more at this comprehensive workshop. The day will include lecture, rowing on the Concept2 indoor rowing machine, team teaching, and two CrossFit workouts. Knowing how to row correctly and teach rowing to your clients are invaluable skills within the CrossFIt community.


Sample itinerary:
8:45am – arrive, meet and greet
9:00 – 11:30 – lecture and movement
11:30 – 12:00 – workout #1
12:00 – 1:00 – lunch break
1:00 – 4:00 –lecture, movement, team teaching
4:00 – 4:30 – workout #2
4:30 – 5:00 – test, review and wrap-up

What to wear and bring:
Participants should wear comfortable workout clothes and tennis shoes with socks. Bring a printed copy of the instructor manual and home study along with water and snacks.

About Coach Erin Cafaro:

Erin began her rowing career as a novice at the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.  She went on to make the Varsity and win the Women’s NCAA Rowing Championship in 2005 and 2006.  In the summer of 2005 Erin also competed in the USRowing U23 Women’s 4- in Amsterdam, Netherlands and won Gold.  Starting in the summer of 2006 Erin began training fulltime with the USRowing National Team.  She has won one Bronze Medal in Eton, England at the Rowing World Championships in 2006 and one Gold Medal in Munich, Germany at the World Championships in 2007, both in the Women’s 4- event.  Erin competed for the United States in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China where she and her teammates brought home the Gold Medal in the Women’s 8+ event.  This was the first time the United States Olympic Team has won the Gold in the Women’s 8+ event in the full 2000m race.