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Assault Fitness / Cardio

Assault Rower Pro

A three-fan air rower with a locking seat, so it doubles as a stationary upper-body machine — 109 lb and 92 inches long.

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Specs

Drive systemDual-stage chain and belt
Resistance3-fan, infinite air resistance
HandleMulti-grip
Foot platesAdjustable steel
SeatSweat-proof padded, with locking pin for a stationary seat
Stabiliser4-way levelling
FramePowder-coated steel, corrosion-resistant hardware
Max user weight350 lb (158.8 kg)
Assembled weight109 lb (49.4 kg)
Length92 in (233.7 cm)
Width22 in (55.9 cm)
Height45 in (114.3 cm)
Warranty7-year frame, 3-year moving parts

These figures are copied from Assault Fitness’s own published specs and were last checked on 2026-08-31. Manufacturers revise products without notice, and variants differ. Confirm anything your decision depends on with Assault Fitness before you buy.

Choose this one if

  • You want a rower that also works as a fixed-seat upper-body machine
  • You want four-way levelling for a garage floor that is not flat
  • You have 92 inches of clear floor

The detail

The seat locking pin is the feature worth buying this for. Pin the seat and the rower becomes a fixed-position upper-body pulling machine — the leg drive is removed and the work goes entirely to your back and arms. That is a genuinely different exercise, useful for conditioning when your legs are cooked and for anyone training around a lower-body injury. Most rowers cannot do it.

The three-fan resistance system is unusual. Air resistance scales with effort by nature — pull harder and it pushes back harder — and splitting the flywheel across three fans is Assault's approach to getting that curve without one enormous fan. In use the behaviour is the same as any air rower: no levels to set, no dial.

Four-way levelling is a small spec that matters in a real garage. A concrete slab is never flat, and a 92-inch rower that rocks on one corner is a rower you stop using.

The length is the constraint that decides the purchase: 92 inches. That is nearly eight feet, and the stroke needs all of it. Measure before ordering, and plan where it goes when it is not in use — at 109 lb it stands on end but is not a light lift.

Seven years on the frame and three on moving parts matches the AirBike Pro X and beats the Force USA R3's two years on parts.

Assault does not publish a performance-monitor specification on this page — no console detail, no stroke rate or split. On a rower the monitor carries most of the training value, so ask before ordering; that is where the Concept2 RowErg has historically been hardest to beat.