I am about 5 days away from gastric bypass surgery (5/7/14).

I used to use a Concept II erg to exercise because I have bad knees from playing college football and have had both hips replaced. Thus I have tried to avoid impact exercises such as running (or walking), etc.

Post surgery, I plan on going back to the erg for exercise. While I will certainly follow the doctor's advice (and the physical therapist), I am hoping that there are other erg users out there that can weigh in (no pun intended) on the subject.

Will also be looking for some good tunes to row to. Suggestions and comments invited.

I am about 5 days away from gastric bypass surgery (5/7/14).

I used to use a Concept II erg to exercise because I have bad knees from playing college football and have had both hips replaced. Thus I have tried to avoid impact exercises such as running (or walking), etc.

Post surgery, I plan on going back to the erg for exercise. While I will certainly follow the doctor's advice (and the physical therapist), I am hoping that there are other erg users out there that can weigh in (no pun intended) on the subject.

Will also be looking for some good tunes to row to. Suggestions and comments invited.

I've done a lot of concept II rowing over the years (my wife got me into it), but it really picked as part of cross fit workouts, after 1 year from surgery. I like fast rowing at 1:20 min /500 m split (almost as much as I like fast running - sub 5 min mile times) and like all the benefits that come with it. Definitely rowing is something you can do post op, but do wait until your stomach is mostly healed so you don't damage something. Personally I have a concept II model b (a dinosaur, but built like a tank) at home and like to row 1-2 hours on it. When at cross fit, I would either row to warm up orI would row for max calories or max meters in x amount of time. All out sprinting and usually part of a larger am rap (as many rounds as possible) workout that has other things like pushups, pullups, double unders etc. Keep on rowing!

Thanks for the info!

I just upgraded to the Model E and hope to put it to very good use.

I also stumbled upon some very old cassette tapes at 24 - 25 - 26 and 27 strokes per minute. (Converted them to mp3 files for my iPod). Would like to find others as the music is getting old.