Your first row with RowPro

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Your first row with RowPro

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Preparing to row with RowPro

Here's the quick reminder checklist:

Position your PC near your Indoor Rower.
Connect your PC to your Concept2 Performance Monitor.
Plug your PC into mains power to ensure it will go the distance during longer rows.
Make sure your PC power saver settings won't interrupt your row.
If you plan to use a heartrate monitor, put it on and check it's showing your heartrate on your watch or on your Concept2 Performance Monitor.  Remember to register your Suunto HR monitor on the PM5 or PM4.

Starting a Just Row

RowPro is designed to start ready to row in 'Just Row' mode. This means as soon as you start RowPro, if the PM Connection Status Indicator is green, you can pull the handle on your Indoor Rower to start rowing and RowPro will automatically track and record your rowing without you touching a single button on your PC or your Concept2 Performance Monitor.

Starting a Just Row is simplicity itself. Just pick up the handle of your Indoor Rower and start rowing.

As you row you'll see RowPro in action:

In the 3D Display, the on-screen boat will move along the course, with the bow (front) of the boat matching the distance on your PM and the on-screen rower (called the Oarsman) matching your stroke timing.
The numbers displayed on the on-screen PM twin will match the numbers on your PM.
The on-screen Pace Chart will track your pace.
If you are wearing a HR monitor connected to your PM, then the on-screen HR Chart will track your heart rate.

Finishing your Just Row

When you do a Just Row, you can keep rowing as long as you want. The RowPro course will go on forever. Of course if you're not used to rowing, you need to take care not to overdo it first time out - please consult your Concept2 User Manual for guidance.

When you're ready to finish your Just Row, simply stop rowing. The on-screen Oarsman will take one or two more strokes until it's sure you've stopped, then the boat will stop and the rower will stop rowing.

You can now either restart rowing, in which case the Oarsman will simply continue to track you, or you can finish your Just Row.

For Just Rows, RowPro needs to be told when you've finished so it can save your results and reset to prepare for a new session. To do this, click the pink Stop Row button on the menu bar above the 3D Display. A small box will pop up asking if you want to save the results.

To record your row in your RowPro rowing log, check the checkbox and a drop-down list will appear showing the current user. Select the correct user (i.e. you!) and click OK to save the result in your RowPro rowing log.
To finish without recording your row, leave the checkbox unchecked and click OK.

 

When you click OK, RowPro will end your Just Row and set up a new Just Row. You can pull the handle again and do another Just Row, or you can use some of the other functions in RowPro like opening the Control Center and checking your rowing log.