RowingCoach Overview
What is RowingCoach? RowingCoach is a fitness app that allows users to track their rowing sessions, compare their workouts, and monitor their overall progress. The app is available for both iPhone and Apple Watch users and offers a range of features to enhance the user experience.
Features
- Displays metrics such as stroke rate, distance covered, pace, pulse, and calories burned
- Can be used on iPhone or Apple Watch, or both
- Offers Siri integration for starting and stopping workouts
- Automatic stroke detection
- Notifications for distance covered, strokes reached, or time passed
- Displays workout on a map
- Color-coding for speed/pulse
- Share workouts with iMessage
- Records weather conditions for outdoor workouts
- iCloud synchronization for workouts across devices
- Apple Health App integration
- Watch complication for weekly progress at a glance
- Force Touch in Watch app for quick start and stop
- Today Widget for weekly and monthly progress
- Ability to add notes to workouts
- Export and upload workouts to other platforms such as Strava, RowsAndAll, MapMyFitness, TrainingPeaks, and Concept2 Logbook
- Supports external Bluetooth heart rate monitors
- Subscription available for exporting workouts via email or recording more than 3 workouts.
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Product Details and Description of
this app, available also for the Apple Watch, allows you to track your rowing sessions, compare your workouts and see your overall progress – whether you train on land or on water. == this app displays the following metrics: • Your current and overall stroke rate (SPM) • The distance covered • Your current and overall pace • Your pulse • Your calories burned == Use the app as suits you best: • Track your session on the iPhone • Only use your Apple Watch to record the training (and leave your iPhone onshore!) • Use the iPhone as display for your Apple Watch recording. Very useful for indoor rowing. == this app also offers these features: • Use Siri to start and stop your workout • Automatic Stroke detection • Get notified after a certain distance covered, strokes reached or time passed • Display your workout on a map • Speed/pulse shown in color-coding • Share your rowing track with iMessage • Weather conditions are recorded for outdoor workouts • iCloud synchronisation: Have your workouts on all your devices. • Apple Health App integration • Watch Complication: See your weekly progress at a glance • Use Force Touch in the Watch app to quickly start and stop a workout • Today Widget: See your weekly and monthly progress from the Today screen • Add notes (to remember who was cox for example) == Export and upload your workouts to other platforms: • Upload to Strava • Export to RowsAndAll • Upload to MapMyFitness • Upload to TrainingPeaks • Upload to Concept2 Logbook External bluetooth heart rate monitors are supported. If you want to export your workouts via e-mail or want to record more than 3 workouts - you can get to a subscription right in the app.
Top Reviews
By Shane49
Only game in town
this app fills a real need for those of us wanting to log indoor rowing sessions via Apple HealthKit, especially when using an older machine lacking network or even Bluetooth connectivity. The key is taking full advantage of the Apple Watch, in detecting strokes and monitoring HR, and then integrating that with a mirrored display on the iPhone, to better monitor session parameters in real time and enable pausing as needed. Mark0Mark is correct that full, long strokes will optimize the accurate counting of strokes and hence stroke rate, although this may mean that variations in stroke rate, implemented by shorter strokes, may be harder to track accurately. Data output to HealthKit includes HR, active calories, and time duration, allowing compilation with other activities such as cycling, running, walking, etc. Session history includes rowing-specific parameters such as stroke count, pace and estimate of distance traveled. Let me add too that the developer is amazingly responsive to questions and suggestions, a real plus.
By Mark0Mark
Works well
Just got this, and took it to the gym to test against the Concept 2 PM5. At first strokes per minute were way off - 5 to 8 strokes lower than C2. Then realized I was not using good form while playing with the readouts. Short-stroke, and readings are off, lean full forward @ start, and lean back, with handle tight to mid section @ end with a “stop/rest” for a split second, and S/M were identical. Did have it hang on start a few times, will see if that continues. App seems to have been recently updated- now no longer works other than the timer
By Jbredmo
Excellent app, despite a minor glitch or two.
I found this app has generally improved since I downloaded it 18 months ago. It really gives good feedback and helps a lot with keeping accurate records and motivation. You need to make sure your Apple Watch is correctly registering heart rate, and earlier versions of the app seemed not to pick up the pulse, but lately that hasn’t been a common problem.
