We're building software, and are now at the point where we can allow for workouts to be read from a data file. This allows to follow a number of things, split time, distance rowed, stroke per minute, watts, or heart rate. Which numbers do you find yourself using to keep you motivated and wanting to improve on?
Our goal is to give the community the ability to create their own workouts and share them with others.
Which numbers are best to chase?
Re: Which numbers are best to chase?
So long as we can calculate all ratios (W/HRR and suchlike) and plot them to see short and long term trends...
08-1940, 179cm, 83kg.
Re: Which numbers are best to chase?
Would you prefer it if the software recorded the data for later analysis, or that you went against a pre-programmed workout, with a record of how well you did against what you planned to do? And when would you like to see the data plotted...after the workout in a summary, or as you are working out? As for trends, do you mean short term and long term trends per rowing session, or weeks/months/years?
Re: Which numbers are best to chase?
I don't make plans, just do what I feel like doing. It's all experiments, and experiments never fail unless we lose the data. But I like to know what happens independently of my subjective impression.
Data has no time limit, may want to see what I'm doing now, or did last year.
C2 show what we're doing but only as far as HR, W, rating. Trends have to be guessed at, as also ratios (W/Rating, W/HRR, slopes etc). Unbelievably, the monitor doesn't even say how much work has been done, despite calling itself an ergometer. Not difficult of course, Average W x Time... I'd have thought that the total amount of work could easily be related to results, if we want to learn something. We're not in the daily paper type situation, a half-hour daily stroll to keep the ticker clear, but maybe your system could help there too; a larger market at least.
Other functions.
If you can estimate current lactate (within 10% error), data-based and without blood tests, so much the better. This is very important, endurance training (i.e. rowing) is done at low lactate level to stress the clearance system but without excess overload. We see messages here from people who are clearly overloaded, but want to cure it by doing some more.
If you can identify aerobic threshold or any similar idea, maybe with a specific test to see it moving long term, so much the better. The (small) part of training that's done faster than race pace has to be well above AT.
Differences in performance can be critical but small, if linked to things like breathing patterns, posture, drag or gearing, so some labeling system will be needed to remember what can't show up as data.
Coaches will have lots of ideas, they need to compare people as well as track them.
Data has no time limit, may want to see what I'm doing now, or did last year.
C2 show what we're doing but only as far as HR, W, rating. Trends have to be guessed at, as also ratios (W/Rating, W/HRR, slopes etc). Unbelievably, the monitor doesn't even say how much work has been done, despite calling itself an ergometer. Not difficult of course, Average W x Time... I'd have thought that the total amount of work could easily be related to results, if we want to learn something. We're not in the daily paper type situation, a half-hour daily stroll to keep the ticker clear, but maybe your system could help there too; a larger market at least.
Other functions.
If you can estimate current lactate (within 10% error), data-based and without blood tests, so much the better. This is very important, endurance training (i.e. rowing) is done at low lactate level to stress the clearance system but without excess overload. We see messages here from people who are clearly overloaded, but want to cure it by doing some more.
If you can identify aerobic threshold or any similar idea, maybe with a specific test to see it moving long term, so much the better. The (small) part of training that's done faster than race pace has to be well above AT.
Differences in performance can be critical but small, if linked to things like breathing patterns, posture, drag or gearing, so some labeling system will be needed to remember what can't show up as data.
Coaches will have lots of ideas, they need to compare people as well as track them.
08-1940, 179cm, 83kg.