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GoRow iPhone App

Posted by Concept2 News on the 11th of March 2010

GoRow is an iPhone & iPod Touch App developed specifically for rowers (both water & indoors). GoRow allows you to maintain a workout log, plan your training, analyse your recent workouts and set personal targets, all within your iPhone.

Entry of workout data is quick & easy and you can see all the important information at a glance. Tapping on a workout instantly displays more detailed information calculated from that workout. Workouts are organised according to week and planning your workouts is as simple as entering a workout with a date in the future. Tapping the Sync button synchronises your entire workout logbook with the Concept2 online log. This works both ways so you can still enter workouts online or via other mechanisms if you wish.

GoRow also analyses your data in various ways, it can produce charts for your recent workout times over many different distances. On the same chart are displayed your target times & the trend of your recent workouts. The trend-line attempts to show you how your times are improving and lets you figure out what paces & distances you should be aiming for. Charts can also show the spread of either paces or distances for your recent workouts, this lets you see how you've been working out and where you've been focussing your effort.

The calculators section of GoRow brings together in one place many of the rowing specific calculators that previously have been spread around on various websites, it contains:

  • Average Split (of many splits)
  • Watts to Pace converter (and vice-versa).
  • Stroke Power Index (some people find it useful).
  • Distance Per Stroke (given time, distance & SPM)
  • Target Pace (from distance & time).
  • 2K Time from Watts.
  • VO2Max calculator (same as on Concept2.com)
  • Predicted time (Pauls law)
  • Weight adjustment (For OTW rowers)
  • Body Mass Index
  • Basal Metabolic Rate (to workout how many calories you need per day).
  • Row Calories (estimated calories expended during a row).
  • Target Distance (given a pace and duration).

On appropriate calculators, you can set a personal target with a single tap after you've calculated what pace/time/distance you want to set it at. The Targets list is a set of distances and/or times that are set to the points you're aiming for in your training (e.g. sub-7 2K). GoRow will monitor how well you're doing and calculate an estimated completion date for that target based on your recent workouts.

GoRow brings together a large set of rowing resources and packages it in a handy App complete with synchronisation to the popular Concept2.com online log. There is also a one-tap Personal Bests banner to search through all your workouts and create an image for use in online forums such as the Concept2 forums. And finally, GoRow is being actively developed, so if you think of anything you would like in the next version of GoRow, contact Steve Tickle via info@gorow.net and he'll do his best to help you out.

For more information on GoRow, go to www.GoRow.net. There is also a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/GoRow/334524518373?ref=ts and a Twitter stream (@GoRowApp) for announcements.


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