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CrossFit Vancouver
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A full row of Concept2 ergs, coached pacing, and a community of rowers training for HYROX, CrossFit, and the pure joy of nailing a sub-7 2K. Beginners welcome, no boat required.
3 free coached classes · claim online in about 30 seconds · no card, no pressure
278 East 1st Avenue · 5 min from Main Street SkyTrain · Open 7 days
At a glance
No boat, no wait, no awkward learning curve. Just clean strokes, real splits, and coaches who actually watch your form.
The industry-standard erg used at HYROX races and the CrossFit Games. We have a full row of them, no queuing during peak hours.
Learn your 500m, 2K, and 5K splits properly. Race-pace targets for HYROX, sustainable splits for longer pieces, sprint protocols for finishers.
Low-impact, full-body. A go-to for our Living Legends 60+ members, post-injury members, and HYROX athletes managing run mileage.
Every week our HYROX classes include race-tempo row pieces. By race day, your 1,000m row is a known quantity, not a question mark.
Catch, drive, finish, recovery. We slow it down on the erg with the damper open so you feel each phase before you go full-tempo.
Learn your 500m baseline. Set your HYROX 1K target. Stop guessing on the monitor and start hitting numbers.
500m repeats, 1K race simulations, 2K time trials. Built into HYROX classes and available as Open Gym pieces.
Whether it's a HYROX race, a CrossFit Open WOD, or the Concept2 Online Challenge, your row is a known quantity. No surprises.
Rowing is one engine inside our broader Functional Athletics system. It is built into our HYROX Training Club programming in Vancouver programming, our CrossFit conditioning, and available any time during Open Gym. Rowing also shows up across the classic CrossFit Hero WODs we program through the year.
Free training tools
Set your 500m splits, find your aerobic base, and pace your pieces like our coaches do on the erg.
Convert target times into 500m splits for any rowing distance.
Open toolFind the aerobic range that builds the engine rowing rewards.
Open toolPlan splits and finish times across distances and intervals.
Open toolBenchmark your aerobic fitness and re-test as your engine grows.
Open toolSee every calculator on the CrossFit BC training tools hub.
CrossFit BC in Olympic Village runs coached rowing sessions on Concept2 RowErgs as part of HYROX classes, CrossFit conditioning, and Open Gym. We're at 278 East 1st Avenue, a few blocks from Main Street SkyTrain.
None. Our coaches start every newcomer with a stroke-by-stroke breakdown: catch, drive, finish, recovery. You'll know how to pull a clean 500m before you finish your first session.
Concept2 Model D RowErgs, the same machines used at HYROX races, the CrossFit Games, and most rowing clubs. We have enough ergs to run full-class intervals without sharing.
Yes, and a lot. The HYROX race includes a 1,000m row. Our coaches build rowing into HYROX class programming with pacing splits, 500m repeats, and race-tempo simulations so race day is never the first time you go hard on the erg.
Excellent. Rowing is full-body, low-impact, and joint-friendly. Many of our Living Legends (60+) members and members rebuilding from injury use rowing as their primary conditioning while their runner friends rotate around the seawall.
Rowing shows up in WODs constantly, calorie rows, 2K time trials, 500m sprints between sets. Members who add focused rowing work see big jumps in conditioning scores and recovery between intervals.
Kevin K.
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Your first 3 coached classes are free. Claim them online in about 30 seconds, no card and no pressure. Mention rowing and we'll point you toward a HYROX class, a CrossFit conditioning piece, or an Open Gym slot, whichever fits your week.
Rowing-heavy conditioning is coached by Coach Stephen Tyler, who runs most of our HYROX prep. For more on how erg work fits in, read our HYROX training Vancouver coach guide and HYROX run club Vancouver, then check member stories from racers training at our Olympic Village gym.
Find us
Our Concept2 RowErgs are a few blocks from Main Street–Science World SkyTrain in Vancouver's Olympic Village. Drop in, take a tour, or claim your free classes.
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