How to use the Rowing Erg Tracker.
You already know how to row. This guide is about the software on top of it. It covers where your scores go, what happens automatically, and what needs a tap from you. It also explains what the small labels mean.
Your Dashboard
This is home base. It's the first thing you see when you log in, and the page that changes most from week to week. It has four sections.
This week's programmed workouts
Whatever your coach has scheduled shows up here. Use the arrows to page back or forward a week. Each workout shows your own PB and last result for it. A counter like 2 / 3 turns green once you've logged enough. If the workout is shared with a squad you're in, you'll also see how many of that squad have completed it. Tap the workout name to see its full structure: reps, target rate, and sometimes an "Open in ErgData" link. That link loads the piece straight onto your PM5, if your coach has set it up.
Paging through weeks here doesn't change anything else on the page. The score form below still defaults to this week's workout. The "Upcoming tests" list still tracks the real current week too, no matter which week you're looking at.
Personal bests and progress
You'll see a card for each standard test, showing your best-ever result. There's also a chart. Pick any workout type and it shows your history over time. A PB here always means your single best result ever for that workout. It's never reset each season, and History's filters don't affect it.
Distance totals
You'll see your own total for this week and this season. Below that is a row for every squad you belong to, showing their average per athlete and their total. "Season" here always means the fixed training season, September to August. It stays the same even while you page through different weeks above.
Notices worth reading
If anything you've synced from Concept2 hasn't matched a workout type yet, you'll see an amber banner. It tells you how many, and links straight to sorting it out. See Needs Review below.
Logging a Score
One form handles every kind of test. What it asks for changes depending on the workout you pick.
| Workout is measured by | You enter | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed distance (2k, 5k…) | Time | 7:14.5 |
| Fixed time (20:00, 30R20…) | Distance | 4,880 m |
| Power (7-stroke test) | Peak watts | 412 W |
| Interval set | Time or distance per rep. Rest is fixed by the plan and shown to you. | 4×1500m/5:00r |
Stroke rate and notes are optional on every mode.
The monitor photo
When you log your own score by hand, you need a photo of the monitor. Tap Take a photo or Choose from gallery. This is so we can double-check your number, and so the app can eventually learn to read monitors automatically.
You don't need a photo if a coach logs the score for you. Concept2-synced results never ask for one either, since there's nothing to photograph.
Connecting Concept2
If you row on a PM5 and log results in the Concept2 Logbook app, you don't have to type them in twice.
- Connect Concept2 on your Account page. It's a normal login, the same as signing into any other Concept2 app.
- Your first sync needs a start date, so the app knows how far back to go. Pick something like the start of last season. You only do this once.
- After that, it's mostly automatic. The app checks for anything new whenever you open the Dashboard, at most every 15 minutes. It also checks every night, whether you open the app or not.
Sometimes you'll want to reach further back than the automatic check covers. Maybe you cleared something out of Needs Review and want another look at it. Full re-sync from a date does one deeper pass on demand. It won't create duplicates.
A quick "just row" session with no target on the monitor is ignored completely. Only pieces logged against a real distance, time, or interval set come across.
Needs Review
A synced piece only turns into a logged score if it matches your club's catalog exactly. For a fixed test, that means the same distance or time. For an interval set, it means the identical rep-by-rep shape. Anything close but not exact lands here instead. The app never guesses. Results here are grouped with others that share the same shape.
If you can't add workout types yourself, use Request new workout type instead. It flags the result to a coach. You'll see "waiting on a coach" until they deal with it. Once a coach adds a matching type, every pending result with that same shape gets swept in automatically. That includes other people's results, not just yours.
Sometimes your club has two workout types for the exact same distance or time on purpose. For example, a steady-state 60:00 and an all-out "Hour of Power." When that happens, a synced piece at that value always lands here. The app won't guess between them. You just pick which one it actually was.
History
Every score you've logged, filterable by season or workout type. Tap a row's photo thumbnail to view it full-screen. Open Reps to see the rep-by-rep breakdown of an interval set. Open Splits to see the checkpoints auto-recorded inside a longer piece.
Archive, not delete
Your own scores get one safety net. Archive hides a result from your stats and history, but keeps it fully recoverable. There's always an Unarchive button waiting in the collapsed "Archived scores" section. Permanently deleting is a separate step from in there. It's deliberate, and it can't be undone.
Fixed-distance and fixed-time results can't be reassigned to a different workout type. A matching number doesn't prove it was actually that test. Interval and power results can still be moved, but only to another type with the exact same shape or value.
Season Plan
A read-only look at your coach's plan for the whole season. It's one row per week, grouped under colour-coded training phases. Each week shows any races coming up, and the workouts assigned to it as small chips. Tap a chip to jump straight to that week on your Dashboard.
You'll only ever see chips meant for you. An assignment aimed at a different squad won't appear. Neither will a week that's still sitting inside your coach's unpublished planning.
Key Tests
Every standard test on your season's calendar, in date order. Each one is tagged Upcoming, Done, or Not logged. Each links to its own slice of History. Where it applies, you'll also see a Predicted pace link. That jumps straight to that test's row on your Erg Profile.
Erg Profile
This page is built from your best recent 2k. It compares your other test results against two well-known coaching models, Paul's Law and LTB. Together they sketch whether you lean toward short power or long endurance. You'll also get a full pacing table and training-zone splits, for every distance from 100m to marathon.
This is a comparison against two historical formulas. It's not a physiological diagnosis. If the two models disagree, you'll see "Model sensitive" instead of one label being declared correct.
Add your weight and sex on Account and you'll also unlock a VO2max estimate. It uses Concept2's own published formula. It's an estimate only.
Account & Alerts
Your name, birth year, weight, and sex live here. Birth year and weight feed age and weight-adjusted rankings, if your squad uses them. Weight and sex together unlock the VO2max estimate. You can add one secondary email, and export your full score history as a CSV. You can also turn on push notifications. They nudge you when there's a programmed erg you haven't logged yet, on whatever schedule your coach has set.
The bell icon in the header, and the /notifications page, keep a running log of every alert you've been sent. That log exists whether or not push notifications are switched on.
Found a bug, or have an idea?
The "Report a bug / suggest a feature" link at the bottom of this page takes you to a short form. Pick Bug or Feature idea, describe it, and send. It goes straight to whoever maintains the app, not your coach. You can see the status of anything you've sent further down that same page.
Glossary
- PB
- Your single best-ever result for one exact workout type, across your whole history. Never reset by season or by any filter.
- Match
- A synced Concept2 result only counts as a logged score on an exact value or shape match against your club's catalog. Never a closest guess.
- Archive
- A reversible way to hide a score from your stats and lists. Nothing is lost. Unarchive restores it exactly as it was.
- Delete
- Permanent removal. For your own scores, only reachable from the archived list, after you've already archived it once.
- Splits
- Auto-recorded checkpoints inside one continuous piece, like every 500m of a 10k. Only present if your monitor was set to record them.
- Reps
- The rep-by-rep breakdown of an interval set. Always present for interval scores.
- Season
- The fixed training year, September to August. It doesn't change no matter what week you're browsing.