Everything the app does, in the order you'll actually meet it.
You know your way around an erg. This guide is just the map for the software sitting on top of it — where your scores go, what the app does on its own versus what needs a tap from you, and what all the small labels actually mean.
Your Dashboard
This is home base — the first thing you see, and the one page that changes the most week to week. It's built from four stacked sections.
This week's programmed workouts
Whatever your coach has scheduled shows up here, with arrows to page backward or forward a week. Each workout shows your own PB and last result for it, a live 2 / 3-style counter that turns green once you've logged enough, and — if it's shared with a squad you're in — a line showing how many of that squad have completed it too. Tap the workout name to expand its full structure (reps, target rate, or an "Open in ErgData" link if your coach has wired one up, which pre-loads the piece straight onto your PM5).
The week you're browsing here doesn't affect anything else on the page — your default workout in the score form and the "Upcoming tests" list below always track the real current week, not whichever one you've paged to.
Personal bests & progress
A card per standard test showing your best-ever result, plus a chart you can point at any workout type to see your history over time. A PB here always means your single best result ever for that exact workout — it isn't reset each season and isn't affected by the History page's filters.
Distance totals
"You" this week and this season, plus a row for every squad you belong to (their average per athlete, and their total). "Season" on this table always means the fixed September–August training season — it stays put 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, an amber banner tells you how many and links straight to sorting it out (see Needs Review).
Logging a Score
One form handles every kind of test — what it asks for changes based 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, a photo of the monitor is required — tap Take a photo or Choose from gallery. It's there to double-check your number and to help the app get better at reading monitors automatically down the line.
No photo needed if a coach logs the score on your behalf, and Concept2-synced results never ask for one — 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 — a normal login-with-Concept2 flow.
- Your very first sync needs a start date, so the app knows how far back to pull. Pick "the start of last season" or similar — this only happens once.
- After that, it's mostly hands-off: the app quietly checks for anything new whenever you open the Dashboard (at most every 15 minutes) and again every night, whether you open the app or not.
If you ever want to reach further back than the automatic top-up covers — say, after clearing something out of Needs Review that you've reconsidered — Full re-sync from a date does one deliberate deeper pass without creating duplicates.
A quick unstructured "just row" session with no target on the monitor is ignored entirely; only pieces logged against a real distance, time, or interval set come across at all.
Needs Review
A synced piece only turns into a logged score if it matches your club's catalog exactly — same distance or time for a fixed test, or the identical rep-by-rep shape for an interval set. Anything close-but-not-quite lands here instead of being guessed at, grouped with other results that share the same shape.
If you don't have permission to add workout types yourself, Request new workout type flags it to a coach instead — you'll see "waiting on a coach" until they act on it. Once a coach does add a matching type, every other pending result with that same shape gets swept in automatically, not just yours.
History
Every score you've logged, filterable by season or workout type. Tap a row's photo thumbnail to view it full-screen, and open Reps (interval sets) or Splits (auto-recorded checkpoints inside a longer piece) to see the breakdown behind a result.
Archive, not delete
Your own scores get one safety net: Archive hides a result from your stats and history but keeps it fully recoverable — an Unarchive button is always sitting in the collapsed "Archived scores" section. Permanently deleting is a separate, deliberate step from in there, and it can't be undone.
Fixed-distance and fixed-time results can no longer 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, 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, or a week still sitting inside your coach's unpublished planning, simply won't appear.
Key Tests
Every standard test on your season's calendar, in date order, tagged Upcoming, Done, or Not logged. Each links to its own slice of History, and — where it applies — a Predicted pace link that jumps straight to that test's row on your Erg Profile.
Erg Profile
Built from your best recent 2k, this page compares your other test results against two well-known coaching models — Paul's Law and LTB — to sketch whether you're leaning toward short power or long endurance, plus a full pacing table and training-zone splits for every distance from 100m to marathon.
A comparison against two historical formulas, not a physiological diagnosis. If they disagree, you'll see "Model sensitive" rather than one label being declared correct.
Add your weight and sex on Account to also unlock a VO2max estimate — Concept2's own published formula, offered as an estimate only.
Account & Alerts
Your name, birth year, weight and sex live here — birth year and weight feed age/weight-adjusted rankings if your squad uses them, and weight plus sex unlock the VO2max estimate. You can add one secondary email, export your full score history as a CSV, and turn on push notifications for a nudge when there's a programmed erg you haven't logged yet — sent on whatever schedule your coach has set.
The bell icon in the header, and the /notifications page, hold a running log of every alert you've been sent — separate from whether push is switched on.
Glossary
- PB
- Your single best-ever result for one exact workout type, across your whole history — not reset by season or by any filter.
- Match
- A synced Concept2 result counts as a logged score only 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 (e.g. every 500m of a 10k) — present only when 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 September–August training year. Independent of whatever week you happen to be browsing.