Concept2 Forum

adccl8z wrote: ↑

July 18th, 2025, 5:22 am

I would like to virtual row with others. Many others. I have a subscription with EXR but likely will cancel as unless I join the occasional group events (timings of which are not always convenient) I see next to no one.

That is far from my experience. What timezone are you in?

For some reason rowers are just not into online software. Used RowPro for 12 years it just never hit critical mass in terms of users and I believe no rowing software ever will. Reality tells a different story. RowPro just had the wrong approach for the average recreational rower. Just the wrong pro...

Sakly wrote: ↑

July 17th, 2025, 9:36 am

And have fun on this journey of course

Most important bit for me.

It seems so strange that there are always about the same nr of rowers around, and 30 seems like a small nr worldwide. One would expect that indeed. I row on EXR, and that clearly has patterns in training. In the early morning (before work), between work and dinner and a couple of hours after dinner...

Sakly wrote: ↑

July 16th, 2025, 11:20 am

On r20 it is probably 1:3, on r40 I assume it tends to be 1:1.

Not according to Luke Walton: https://youtu.be/iv9PVMUV6Dc

Agree very treadmill/bike centric. As you say, for rowing FTMS supports: Stroke Rate ; Stroke Count ; Average Stroke Rate ; Total Distance ; Instantaneous Pace ; Average Pace ; Instantaneous Power ; Average Power ; Resistance Level ; Total Energy ; Energy per Hour ; Energy per Minute ; Heart Rate ;...

Focus is shifting to BLE: Garmin's increased focus will be on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), which is more widely adopted and better aligned with the upcoming regulations. Yeah, but do they mean Bluetooth FTMS here, or simply a new/different protocol? To clarify. Technically, the protocol Concept2 use...

Aside: Garmin heavily backed an ANT+ standard for fitness equipment. Concept2 also supported this. Garmin choose to have their watches not support the bluetooth equivalent called FTMS. But now ANT+ is dead, killed by encryption requirements. Well, they stopped active development, but they keep sell...

Anyway, I'm here looking to confirm that I'm on the right path with a goal to enjoy rowing and become better. Let me start by saying that by far this is the most important part. From my reading it seems the SkillRow produces similar values to the C2 in the rowing mode (essentially an ergometer as w...

I am a satisfied user of a Moofit HR monitor (for 26 USD on Amamzon) on a C2. Since the connection protocols are all standard I assume it will work on the SkillRow too. I wouldn't bet on it, at all. Most equipment slap on a bunch of logo's without any real support. I am also active on the EXR rowin...

2. If you are doing a "just row" or an unspecified number of intervals, you need to signal the end of the workout before it will be saved. I do this by hitting MENU on the PM5 -- then wait until the PM5 stores in memory, followed by ErgData storing it. Another way is to hit the yellow button on the...

I am looking at two used options: A Model C with a PM5 or a Model D with a PM3. The D is about $200 more than the C. Is the newer one worth the extra money? Both are great machines and they will outlast most of us. These machines are mechanically indestructable. Perhaps look at the state of the cha...

The PM calculates the drag factor based on the deceleration of the flywheel when the flywheel is freespinning (when you're not pulling or are pulling slower than the flywheel is spinning). In that case, the only bearing drag included in the calculation is from the clutch bearings. That is correct. ...

I am quite sure, that the PM5 rounds that way, as I failed a challenge exactly due to this problem. I managed to have the exact same data shown on the PM5 for two different intervals, but with two different rates. That means the PM5 used digits to calculate you can't even see on the PM5. And ErgDat...

I was not aware of the validation of the 2.8 factor, but even so it will change as boats improve and most of us would have a much bigger discrepancy from stroke efficiency OTW than OTE and so introducing a further difference. That is actually a pretty interesting question. The 2.8 was set decades a...