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Anyone tried regatta ios app?
Posted: January 4th, 2021, 9:58 pm
by rasstar
I tried out this app today and it was really interesting. It was a live row and had a leaderboard that I didn't understand. Anyone know how the ranking is determined? The output was in Kj and not calories. I don't know how they determined this value. The instructions didn't explain anything.
Re: Anyone tried regatta ios app?
Posted: January 5th, 2021, 4:51 pm
by Tsnor
rasstar wrote: ↑January 4th, 2021, 9:58 pm
I tried out this app today and it was really interesting. It was a live row and had a leaderboard that I didn't understand. Anyone know how the ranking is determined? The output was in Kj and not calories. I don't know how they determined this value. The instructions didn't explain anything.
I don't know the ap.
Kilojoules is just a measure of energy. Likely they were computing kJ from the Watts data supplied by the PM5. kilojoules = watts × seconds / 1000. You can view it as Calories with a scaling multiplier. Someone with more kJ will have burned more calories.
Ranking by kJ would not be my first choice of metrics -- IMO someone who rows at 300W for 10 minutes did much more than someone who rowed at 100W for 30 minutes even though they accumulated the same number of kilojoules.