RowingCoach 4+

Make every stroke count!

Gunther Cronenberg

Designed for iPad

    • 3.3 • 108 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

RowingCoach, 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.



== RowingCoach 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.



== RowingCoach 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.

What’s New

Version 1.9.9

• Improvements

Ratings and Reviews

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3.3 out of 5
108 Ratings

108 Ratings

DerrickO ,

SPM seems off.

Sadly, my new FDF fluidrower doesn’t connect to anything, so this app was my answer to log workouts into Strava. The ability to manually edit distance for an indoor row is fantastic (still wont import the distance into Strava though. It just shows up as an “activity” with time and heart rate.”


I’ve noticed, however, that the SPM has been way off as of late. I’m moving deliberately and my Apple Watch is recording the row, but end of workout it said in 8,000 meters I took 579 strokes at 19spm... when in fact I was averaging 28spm (manually counted for two minutes even)... which is more like 840 strokes. 19 SPM would be PAINFULLY slow...


Is there a way to recalibrate the app on my watch? I’m not moving subtlety and the back & forth of indoor strokes should be an easy thing to keep accurate with the accelerometer.

Shane49 ,

Only game in town

RowingCoach 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.

Choudofu ,

Does the job well

I’ve been using this app for 3 years now and have logged 688 hrs on it, mostly on the water. I use it with an Apple Watch and iPhone X. It tracks my distance, time & strokes accurately. My only complaint was that sometimes it would take a minute to pinpoint my starting location via GPS, which would make it look like I’d started rowing in the road, about a mile from the starting dock. I have worked around this by starting my row in the app while I'm on the dock but a couple minutes before I enter my boat, then ending that short “row” and starting a new session when I actually start rowing. The first session seems to give the app time to pinpoint my location. I later go back and delete the “false” 2-minute workout, and the real workout shows the proper starting location on the map.

App Privacy

The developer, Gunther Cronenberg, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Siri

    Get things done within this app using just your voice. Learn More

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