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title: "Meet your crew: Jon"
description: Meet Chelsea NYC's Coach, Jon.
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# [Meet your crew: Jon](https://blog.therowhouse.com/meet-your-crew-member-coach-jon)

 Written by [Allie Seligman](https://blog.therowhouse.com/author/allie-seligman) | Jul 30, 2018 9:19:42 PM

*Jon joined the Row House Chelsea team in April 2017. The Kansas native is a former college rower.   *

**What do you do when you're not rowing?**  
When I'm not at Row House, I love all kinds of outdoor activities — snowboarding, surfing, hiking, and any kind of pick-up sport. Other fitness types that I love: CrossFit, yoga, and other fun fitness classes around the city!

**What's your favorite music to work out to?**  
I really love rowing to electronic music because of the rhythm. It makes it so easy to get into the swing of the stroke.

**What's your favorite class type to teach?**  
I love teaching Full Row classes. As a former college rower, they remind me so much of the practices and get me truly back in that competitive mindset.

**What's your fitness background?**  
Growing up, I played extremely competitive sports. I played football, basketball, and baseball in high school, then took a baseball scholarship for college. After a year of baseball, I decided to hang up the cleats and joined the rowing team at my university. Best decision I ever made! That's where I really gained a passion for fitness.

**What's your favorite distance to row?**  
I was always better at longer distance pieces, but every competitive rower loves to compete in the 2K. For workouts I like to row 5Ks or 6Ks, and to compete the shorter distances are definitely more fun.

**What's your go to breakfast?**  
Four scrambled eggs with peanut butter toast and a chocolate protein shake.

**What's your favorite TV show right now?**  
Even though I'm impatiently waiting for the next season, it has to be Game of Thrones!

**What do you enjoy most about working at Row House?**  
The community! Everyone involved is such a positive and moving person. It's so inspirational every time I walk into the studio.

**What's your guilty pleasure?**  
Ice cream! So, so much ice cream!

**What's a food you can't live without?**  
Right now I am obsessed with acai bowls.

**Favorite book/currently reading?**  
"The Martian" by Andy Weir.

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