Zeus Vortex Ski Trainer V2.0

Product Info

The Zeus Vortex Ski Trainer V2.0 brings the hardest-earned workout in endurance sport indoors. Double-poling drives the lats, triceps, shoulders and the whole trunk through a full range under load, and because the legs and hips contribute on every stroke it reaches more muscle at once than almost anything else in the room — with nothing to absorb through a joint, which is why it keeps turning up in return-to-training programmes as well as in conditioning blocks.

Two Ways to Set It Up

The trainer itself is the same either way — same flywheel, same handles, same monitor. What changes is how it stands up.

• With Stand — supplied on its own weighted floor base, with a tubular steel frame around the flywheel and transport wheels at the rear. Free-standing: nothing to anchor, nothing to drill, and it can be wheeled between spaces. This is the straightforward choice for most rooms.
• Without Stand — the trainer on its own, mounted to a structural wall or to a rack. It saves $200 and a good deal of floor depth, and it keeps the footprint off the floor entirely.

Wall mounting hardware is not supplied. Wall builds vary too much — stud spacing, concrete, block, steel — for one kit to suit them all, and the wrong anchor in the wrong wall is not a risk worth packaging. We will supply the right hardware on request: tell us what you are fixing to and we will quote it with the machine. Confirm your wall build before ordering.

Air Resistance, Set by the Athlete

Resistance comes from a shrouded air flywheel, so it answers to effort rather than to a setting — pull harder and the air pushes back harder, through the same stroke. That makes it self-scaling across a mixed class: the same machine suits a junior athlete and a heavyweight without anyone adjusting anything between pieces.

The flywheel sits low and centred behind its guard. Two independent cords run to separate handles, so the trainer covers double-pole work with both arms together and alternating-arm classic technique, as well as single-arm and kneeling variations.

The Monitor

The performance monitor sits on a pivoting bracket at mid-mast, set at eye height for a standing athlete and angled to stay readable mid-piece. It reports in the units the sport already uses, so a piece can be written on a whiteboard and read back without translation:

• Distance in metres, and split as time per 500 m — the pace figure every ski and rowing programme is already written in.
• Power in watts, with a live power bar for holding a rate through a long interval.
• Stroke rate in strokes per minute, and a running stroke count.
• Calories and elapsed time.

Dedicated Interval and Target buttons set structured work directly on the machine, so a coach can put a class on the same piece without anybody holding a phone. The monitor is battery powered and needs no outlet.

Technical Specs

• Resistance: Shrouded air flywheel, self-scaling to the athlete's effort
• Technique Support: Double-pole, alternating-arm, single-arm and kneeling
• Handles: Two independent cords with separate handles
• Monitor: Battery-powered performance monitor on a pivoting bracket — metres, split per 500 m, watts, stroke rate, stroke count, calories and elapsed time, with interval and target programming
• Stand (With Stand option): Weighted floor base with a tubular steel flywheel frame and rear transport wheels — free-standing, no anchoring or drilling
• Mounting (Without Stand option): Structural wall or rack. Wall mounting hardware is not supplied; available on request once we know your wall build
• Footprint on the stand: 23.5" W x 50" D x 85" H (59.6 x 127 x 215.9 cm)
• Frame: Powder-coated steel mast
• Recommended Use: Conditioning, cross-country and nordic off-season training, upper-body endurance, low-impact intervals