{"product_id":"zeus-vortex-ski-trainer","title":"Zeus Vortex Ski Trainer V2.0","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eZeus Vortex Ski Trainer V2.0\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo Ways to Set It Up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trainer itself is the same either way — same flywheel, same handles, same monitor. What changes is how it stands up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWith Stand\u003c\/strong\u003e — 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWithout Stand\u003c\/strong\u003e — the trainer on its own, mounted to a \u003cstrong\u003estructural wall\u003c\/strong\u003e or to a \u003cstrong\u003erack\u003c\/strong\u003e. It saves $200 and a good deal of floor depth, and it keeps the footprint off the floor entirely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWall mounting hardware is not supplied.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cstrong\u003eWe will supply the right hardware on request:\u003c\/strong\u003e tell us what you are fixing to and we will quote it with the machine. Confirm your wall build before ordering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAir Resistance, Set by the Athlete\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResistance 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flywheel sits low and centred behind its guard. Two independent cords run to separate handles, so the trainer covers \u003cstrong\u003edouble-pole\u003c\/strong\u003e work with both arms together and \u003cstrong\u003ealternating-arm\u003c\/strong\u003e classic technique, as well as single-arm and kneeling variations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Monitor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDistance\u003c\/strong\u003e in metres, and \u003cstrong\u003esplit\u003c\/strong\u003e as time per 500 m — the pace figure every ski and rowing programme is already written in.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePower\u003c\/strong\u003e in watts, with a live power bar for holding a rate through a long interval.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStroke rate\u003c\/strong\u003e in strokes per minute, and a running \u003cstrong\u003estroke count\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCalories\u003c\/strong\u003e and elapsed time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDedicated \u003cstrong\u003eInterval\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eTarget\u003c\/strong\u003e buttons set structured work directly on the machine, so a coach can put a class on the same piece without anybody holding a phone. 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