Group training

RowPro enables fitness instructors to set up the same workout on up to 16 Concept2 Indoor Rowers directly from the RowPro PC, then capture all the results for all the participants in the RowPro rowing log.

This capability can be used to support and enhance a variety of group rowing and training activities in emergency services. For more information, please contact assist@digitalrowing.com.

Venue racing

Venue Racing means lining up a set of Concept2 Indoor Rowers ("ergs") in a room, hooking them all to a computer running RowPro, and using RowPro to conduct live races between the contestants.

Emergency services departments can use Venue Racing as a means of transforming Indoor Rowing from a fitness activity to a competitive sport. There are several race formats available:

• Single sculls - In a Single Sculls race, every erg is a separate boat in the race. This is one of the classic forms of racing, where it's individual against individual, similar to the racing at National and World Championship Indoor Rowing events. RowPro Gym Edition supports up to 16 ergs, so quite large races are possible.
• Doubles, quads and octuples - RowPro also enables several ergs to be clustered together so their combined outputs power the same boat onscreen. In this way up to 16 ergs can be arranged as 8 doubles, 4 quads, or even 2 so-called 'octuples'. This enables teams to be formed that combine rowers of different abilities as a way to even out boat performance and make the races very close at the finish.
• Team relays - This is where each erg has a team assigned to it, and during the course of the race they very quickly swap from one person to the next. In one form of team relays, the foot straps are unbuckled and held in place by two of the team who are not currently doing the rowing, to make change-overs faster. Another form of team relays is where there are set breaks of say 1 minute between one person finishing and the next starting, so the overall race is more like a series of intervals.
• Session wrap-ups - Small informal Venue Races are commonly used as a way to wrap up fitness or training sessions. Participants can be paired up into doubles to balance out different ability levels so the races have close finishes to add excitement. These session wrap-ups can be as short as 100 meters. They just add a buzz to the end of the sessions.

Inter-department and inter-station live competitions

RowPro Online Rowing enables emergency services to hold live rowing competitions in real time between personnel in different departments and services in different locations.

Up to 16 locations can participate in the same race with one boat each, and if each boat is powered by say a 4-person relay team, then 64 personnel can be involved in the same race.

This fundamentally changes what is possible in maintaining cohesiveness between personnel in different departments, services and locations.

For more information, please contact assist@digitalrowing.com.