Category: Tips and Tricks
Race Analysis for Head Races
Fall season is head race season. One particularly interesting aspect of these races is that they are not held on straight regatta courses. Hence, not only boat speed is crucial, but also optimising your steering to go the shortest route possible. Today we have released an update to Analytics to better support analyzing these types of
Typical Stroke Speed Normalisation
We have recently implemented an improvement to the typical stroke calculation algorithm that further improves comparability for typical strokes. Before the change, typical strokes sometimes exhibited a change in average stroke speed as seen in the chart below. You can see that for some strokes, the boat speed at beginning and end of the stroke
Workout Intensity Diagrams
It’s summer here on the northern hemisphere and that means the rowing season is well underway. As we train towards the season’s most important competition (be it a regional regatta or the world championships), many training programs increase variation in workout intensity to improve race performance, building on the foundation of long steady-state training sessions in the winter. With Analytics, you
Creating and Comparing Analysis with Analytics
This video is an introduction to Analytics and how you can use the tools provided to create and compare analysis.
Stroke Efficiency Explained
With metrics Rowing in Motion gives you some numeric information about typical strokes and allows you to compare typical strokes beyond the purely visual difference in a graph. The calculations for the metrics are not a secret in any way and we’re happy to share the exact calculations we use. In fact, we believe it is very important that
Designing a Measurement System for Rowing: The different levels of measurements in Rowing
After the previous discussion of desirable properties of measurements in rowing, we will now look at measurements that are commonly performed in rowing and how well these measurements satisfy the above-mentioned properties. For this purpose, we will group them by their level of feasibility and insight that they offer into the rowing stroke. Other posts in this series:
Typical Stroke Analysis with Normalization
One common problem with comparing the acceleration profiles of typical strokes is that slight variations in stroke-rate make it hard to reliably assess the real difference between two or more examined profiles. We deployed an improvement to Analytics that allows you to make such comparisons more easily. Comparing profiles at different stroke-rates As an example,
BlueLeza Heartrate Monitor
BlueLeza was kind enough to provide us with their HRM Blue heart rate strap to test it for compatibility with the Rowing in Motion Boat App and we can confirm it works perfectly. We have added it to our list of compatible heart rate sensors. The HRM Blue is a Bluetooth LE (Bluetooth 4.0) enabled
Searching and Tagging Sessions in Analytics
With more than 1000 rowing sessions tracked using Analytics already, it’s important you can find the ones you’re looking for. So we have added a tagging feature and a searchbox, that will help you organize your logfiles better. Tagging Sessions We have added a “Tags” widget on the logfiles detail page where you can add
Share your Rowing Sessions on Facebook
We’re happy to release an exciting new feature today: Using Analytics, you can share data from your workouts and races on facebook with your crewmates, coaches and friends. And you can show all your non-rowing friends what you’re up to while they’re playing FarmVille. Here’s a 3 minutes tutorial how it works. Link your Analytics