User Settings

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The User Settings page in the Control Center contains a number of user-specific settings:

Session Settings

Save Strokes

When you finish a session you have the option of saving the strokes. By default the Save Strokes checkbox is not checked. If you want the Save Strokes checkbox to be checked by default, check the Save Strokes by Default checkbox.

Note: If you select Save Strokes by Default, you can still uncheck the Save Strokes checkbox after any session if you don't want the strokes saved.

Use Checklist

This setting determines whether the My Pre-Row Checklist described below is shown or not.

Display Training Details

After a training session warm-up, you'll find it helpful to be reminded what your training session is all about, what your targets are, and what you're best to focus on as you row. All this is packed into a Training Details pop-up that appears between the warm-up and main row of your training session. You can enable or disable this feature with the Display Training Details checkbox.

Auto Advance

When you row a session, a progress box appears between the warm-up and the main row, and again between the main row and the warm-down. By default, with Auto Advance set to zero, the progress box waits until you click OK before moving on to the next part of your session. If you prefer not to click OK to move on through each session (for example if you hate touching the keyboard when you're dripping with sweat!), use the Auto Advance setting to automatically advance through your sessions.

When Auto Advance is set, as you move through your session:

The progress box will pop up with a Pause button and a large-font countdown showing the number of seconds until the session will advance automatically as though you had clicked the OK button.
If you click the Pause button the countdown will pause and the Pause button will change to a Play button. The session will now only advance if you click OK manually or if you click the Play button to continue the countdown.

Internet Start Delay

When you start an Online Rowing session as the Starter, if your PC is too far away to reach while you are sitting on your Indoor Rower, you can end up hustling to get strapped in after you click Start to start the session. By default, with Internet Start Delay set to zero, the countdown starts as soon as you click the Start button. If you prefer not to hustle to get strapped in after you click Start, use the Internet Start Delay setting to introduce a number of seconds delay between when you click Start and when RowPro processes the Start and begins the countdown. When the Internet Start Delay is set to a non-zero number of seconds:

When you click Start, a large delay timer appears on the Start screen, counting down the number of seconds delay. Nobody else in the race sees this delay timer except you the Starter, and in fact nobody else will even realize you have already clicked Start, because RowPro waits until the delay is finished before it processes the Start.
When the delay countdown reaches zero, RowPro acts as though you just clicked the Start button, and begins the normal countdown. For everyone else in the race, it's as though you clicked Start at the end of the start delay.

Note: The Internet Start Delay is only relevant for Online rowing sessions where you are the Starter, and only when you click Start to start the countdown and therefore the session. If the Internet Start Delay setting in the Control Center is set to zero seconds, the normal countdown will start as soon as the Starter clicks Start.

PM3/4 Display

During Online Rowing sessions the lower half of the Concept2 PM3/4 display can be set to replace the normal information with a list of where you are relative to others in the session.  Check this box to select this feature.

Slides

If you row with slides you can set RowPro to record this by default in the Notes associated with the row in your RowPro Rowing Log. Check this box to select this feature.

Other Settings

My HRM Type

Your heartrate is an important factor in your training, in fact most of your rowing plan sessions are designed to be rowed within specific heartrate ranges. Ideally, you will wear a Heart Rate Monitor (HRM) while you train with RowPro.

For the PM2+ and PM3, Concept2 provides a Polar/Concept2 Heart Rate Interface that enables you to display your heartrate on the Concept2 PM display. If you use this system, RowPro can read your heartrate directly from the PM2+ or PM3 and display it on the In-Row Display and save it in your Rowing Log.
For the PM4, Concept2 provides a Suunto Heart Rate Belt that enables you to display your heartrate on the Concept2 PM4 display. If you use this system, RowPro can read your heartrate directly from the PM and display it on the In-Row Display and save it in your Rowing Log.
For the PM5, Concept2 sells Heart Rate Belts that enable you to display your heartrate on the Concept2 PM5 display. If you use this system, RowPro can read your heartrate directly from the PM and display it on the In-Row Display and save it in your Rowing Log.
As an alternative, you can also use a standard HRM with a watch-style readout, in which case you will know your heartrate but RowPro won't.
Finally, you can use no HRM at all, in which case you can still guesstimate your heartrate by paying attention to clues from your body, like how hard you are breathing.

The Heartrate chart on the In-Row Display is designed to support all three of these HRM situations:

None

If you have no HRM at all, then click None and the heartrate chart will give you physiological cues like "light panting" that you can use as a guide to working in the right heartrate range. Your heartrate will not be recorded in your Rowing Log, however you can add Notes to the rows in your log to describe how you felt your heartrate went, as described in the Rowing Log section.

Watch

If your HRM is a watch, then click Watch and the heartrate chart will display two large numbers, which are the upper and lower heartrate of the range you should be working within. Your heartrate will not be recorded in your Rowing Log, however you can add Notes to the rows in your Rowing Log to record your heartrate from your watch, as described in the Rowing Log section.

Online

If your HRM is a Polar/Concept2 Heart Rate Interface or a Suunto Heart Rate Belt, then click Online and the heartrate chart will chart your heartrate in real-time as you row. Your heartrate will also be recorded in your Rowing Log.

My Pre-Row Checklist

There's nothing more frustrating than settling into a long row only to realize after you start that you forgot to do something important like locking the door, putting on your HRM, or whatever. RowPro helps you avoid these situations by popping up a personal checklist right after you click Row in Session Setup. You have complete control over what this checklist says, and whether it pops up or not. Just type whatever you want in the My Pre-Row Checklist box, and check or uncheck the Use Checklist box.