For the easy row I used the Chrome app function of Painsled. Although I don’t like its name, it’s an interesting app (in beta). I stumbled upon it on the Concept2 forum because the developer advertised a mobile version. What it does? It connects to the PM monitor and then logs data (stroke data). There is an iOS app that works with the wireless enabled PM5. For my PM3 I have to use the USB connection and use the Chrome App version. Here’s a screenshot:
It works pretty nicely. You basically have it running on your computer and don’t care about it. You use the PM to set up workouts and row them. The app just follows what you are doing on the erg and logs each stroke. It shows the data on the screen, so you basically have an extra erg monitor with some data (stroke power curve, watts, 500m pace all in one screen). The logs correspond to the Just Rows or Workouts that you did on the erg. I guess when the PM saves to the log card, a new log is started in PainSled.
After rowing, you can export the data to a CSV file. I did that and then played a bit with Dan Burpee’s spreadsheet so I could manually copy data from the CSV to the spreadsheet and create pretty graphs:
Warming up – a 2k rowA 3x1500m / 30 second rest – pace and heart rate3x1500m / 30 sec rest – stroke rate and heart rate
I like the philosphy of the app. Just a data logger. There is a TCX export plugin available which I couldn’t get to work. Also, I noted that the cumulative meters in the CSV file stopped after the second 1500m interval. Probably a bug in the software, but the stroke specific data were there so I could easily correct it.
The CSV file is very complete. Here are the data that I found in it:
Start time of stroke (time stamp)
Interval distance at start of stroke
Workout (cumulative) distance at start of stroke
Stroke Number (easy if you want to count strokes)
Stroke type (1 for waiting, 0 for work)
Interval number – I miss this one in RowPro
Workout State (“waiting to row” / “work distance interval” / “interval rest”, etc
Stroke drive duration in ms
Stroke drive meters
Stroke recovery duration in ms
Stroke recovery meters
Stroke duration
Stroke meters
Stroke pace (seconds per km)
Stroke rate (strokes per minute)
Stroke Watts
Stroke Heart Rate
Stroke Drag Factor
Elapsed time
Stroke Calorie Counter
Workout start time stamp
Workout end time stamp
Total workout meters
Total workout stroke count
Workout type (e.g. “distance interval” or “just row”)
Workout Interval Count
Workout rest time
Workout Erg model
Workout Erg Serial number
Workout Erg Odometer
Stroke force map
And if you can write plugins, you could probably make a function to upload the row to Concept2 and other nifty things. A semi automatic excel to extract data from the CSV file is easy and very interesting.
Unfortunately I don’t have a PM5 (nor will I see many PM5 monitors on the hotel gym or crossfit box ergs that I frequent), so the mobile app is useless for me at the moment. In that respect, ErgStick seems promising.
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Jan 5 2016
Testing Painsled
Today I did an easy row and some weights.
For the easy row I used the Chrome app function of Painsled. Although I don’t like its name, it’s an interesting app (in beta). I stumbled upon it on the Concept2 forum because the developer advertised a mobile version. What it does? It connects to the PM monitor and then logs data (stroke data). There is an iOS app that works with the wireless enabled PM5. For my PM3 I have to use the USB connection and use the Chrome App version. Here’s a screenshot:
It works pretty nicely. You basically have it running on your computer and don’t care about it. You use the PM to set up workouts and row them. The app just follows what you are doing on the erg and logs each stroke. It shows the data on the screen, so you basically have an extra erg monitor with some data (stroke power curve, watts, 500m pace all in one screen). The logs correspond to the Just Rows or Workouts that you did on the erg. I guess when the PM saves to the log card, a new log is started in PainSled.
After rowing, you can export the data to a CSV file. I did that and then played a bit with Dan Burpee’s spreadsheet so I could manually copy data from the CSV to the spreadsheet and create pretty graphs:
I like the philosphy of the app. Just a data logger. There is a TCX export plugin available which I couldn’t get to work. Also, I noted that the cumulative meters in the CSV file stopped after the second 1500m interval. Probably a bug in the software, but the stroke specific data were there so I could easily correct it.
The CSV file is very complete. Here are the data that I found in it:
And if you can write plugins, you could probably make a function to upload the row to Concept2 and other nifty things. A semi automatic excel to extract data from the CSV file is easy and very interesting.
Unfortunately I don’t have a PM5 (nor will I see many PM5 monitors on the hotel gym or crossfit box ergs that I frequent), so the mobile app is useless for me at the moment. In that respect, ErgStick seems promising.
So definitely something to watch.
By sanderroosendaal • Uncategorized • 11 • Tags: concept2, erg, OTE, rowing, strength, training