No? Then move along, you won't care about what come next.
OK, so, if your still reading, then I have news for you. If you are using a PM5, go and get yourself a copy of PainSled from painsled.com/ and install it on your android or iphone. Figure out how to use it (which is not at all hard) and then use it to capture more data about your rowing than you ever imagined needing or wanting.
It captures data on drive length, peak force, average force, plus all the usual power, pace, SPM and HR. Now that you have all that data, how the heck can you analyze it?
I'm glad you asked. A friend of mine has created a website that let's you upload and analyze painsled files (it also can work with ergdata, ergstick, and a bunch of OTW rowing data, but that's a story for another post.) Once they are there, you can do some amazing things. You can look at it at a summary level.
When you look at that and you want to understand how peak force changes with stroke rate, no problem...
You can slice the data in many ways to try to understand what your strengths and weaknesses are on the rower.
It's all over at rowsandall.com
disclosures: I have no interest in painsled. I helped develop some of the plotting code for rowsandall.com, but have no financial interest.
