Training session management for rowing clubs
Rowers tap once to say they are in. Coaches know their numbers before the dawn crews push off. No WhatsApp polls, no messy spreadsheets.
What does rowing training session software do?
Training session software puts a rowing club's whole week on one screen: every water outing, ergo block, and circuits class, published once and visible to every member. Rowers answer with a single tap on their phone, a reminder chases the silent ones, and the coach reads live numbers instead of scrolling a WhatsApp thread. Season after season the attendance record builds, ready when selection for the Head of the Yarra rolls around.
Every Row HQ plan includes session planning at no extra cost - our pricing page has the detail.
How clubs ran it before, and how Row HQ runs it
Same club, less chaos
Without Row HQ
- A WhatsApp poll the squad scrolls straight past
- Spreadsheets nobody has updated since last regatta
- A scratched rower at 5am and no time to reshuffle
- Selection arguments with no attendance record behind them
- New members guessing when training is on
With Row HQ
- Rowers confirm from their phone in one tap
- Availability that updates the moment someone pulls out
- Push alerts the instant a session changes
- Every attendance stat kept in the admin dashboard
- The week's program in front of the whole club
Session tools for Australian clubs
Built around the way training actually runs here - pre-dawn rows, ergo nights, and a regatta calendar that peaks in summer. Browse the screenshot gallery to see each one.
Weekly Schedule
Publish the recurring program once - water at dawn, ergo Tuesday, circuits Thursday - and every squad from juniors to masters sees its week.
One-Tap Attendance
In or out takes a single tap. No forms, no group-chat polls, no chasing.
Notifications
A reminder lands ahead of each session, and coaches hear straight away when a rower scratches. Each member tunes their own alerts in the member portal.
Session Types
Water, Ergo, Circuits - a distinct icon for each, filterable per member. A water session ties into boat booking automatically.
Attendance Analytics
Spot the sessions that fill up and the rowers who front up every week. It all lands in the admin dashboard for the committee and for selectors.
Coach Notes
The plan for the session sits on the card, so rowers arrive at the boatshed knowing the work ahead. One piece of the coach tools suite.
How It Works
Create a session, watch the responses land - a few taps end to end. Most clubs are live the day they sign up. Chasing a split for one piece? Our free erg pace calculator is open to everyone.
Admin Creates Sessions
Build the weekly pattern - times, locations, and a type for every session
Members Get Notified
A notification prompts each rower to answer in or out
Attendance Rolls In
Every tap updates the live headcount for the coach
Coaches Plan Crews
Knowing exactly who is coming, coaches open the crew builder and seat the eights and small boats
Related reading
- Sorting out your training week
- How coaches approach crew selection
- Reading your ergo numbers properly
Still weighing it up? The FAQ covers the common questions, what other clubs say covers the rest, or jump to view pricing.
Session software questions, answered
The things Australian clubs check before retiring the WhatsApp poll.
It covers the full loop: the club publishes its water, ergo, and circuits program, members answer attendance with one tap, reminders chase the stragglers, and the totals flow through to selection and committee reporting. The WhatsApp poll and its companion spreadsheet retire on day one. A rower checks the week from their phone and taps in; the coach arrives at the boatshed with the crew list already settled rather than counting heads on the pontoon.
With one tap on the session card - "Going" or "Not going". An optional note covers the detail: stuck in traffic, ergo only tonight, happy to sub in. The headcount updates for the coach in real time, and anyone who stays silent gets a nudge a few hours out. Over a season the record shows who fronts up through winter and who fades, which is exactly the evidence a selector wants in hand.
Yes - build it once and it republishes itself. A typical Australian setup: dawn water rows Tuesday and Thursday, an ergo session Wednesday night, the long Saturday row, plus a schools squad slot in the afternoon. Any single date can be changed or called off for weather without disturbing the pattern, and each session can be limited to a squad, so novices are not squinting at the seniors' program.
They will. A notification goes out ahead of every session a rower is down for, and a second one chases anyone yet to answer. Clubs choose the timing - the night before suits some, two hours out suits others. When conditions turn, a coach can broadcast to the whole session in seconds ("river is blown out, ergos at the shed instead") and nobody drives to a cancelled row. Each member decides which alerts they receive.
Directly. The crew builder in coach tools reads the same attendance record, so a selector sees at a glance who trained all fortnight, who kept the ergo work up, and who is free for the weekend's regatta. Race-week spreadsheet archaeology disappears. Once crews are seated, every rower gets a notification with their boat - no waiting for the announcement to land in the group chat.
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