Rowing training session management
The captain posts the week, members tap to answer, and the coach has the numbers before leaving the house. The WhatsApp poll and the messy spreadsheets can retire.
How does rowing training session software work?
An Irish club puts its whole training week into the system once: outings on the river, erg sessions, circuits. Every member sees the same schedule, answers in or out with a tap, and is reminded before each outing. The coach lands at the slip with the numbers settled, and because each answer is logged, the club carries a season-long attendance record into selection for the winter heads and the summer regattas.
No plan charges extra for session planning - check pricing for the bands.
The spreadsheet era vs Row HQ
What changes on day one
Without Row HQ
- A WhatsApp poll that half the club never opens
- The spreadsheet only the captain can decipher
- Dropouts on the morning of the outing and crews falling apart
- Selection rows with nothing on paper to settle them
- Newer members with no idea which outings run when
With Row HQ
- One tap answers the attendance question
- Availability you can trust at any hour
- Automatic word when an outing shifts or is cancelled
- A running attendance archive inside the admin dashboard
- The week's outings laid out plainly for everybody
Tools for the Irish training week
Shaped by how clubs from Cork to Galway actually train through an Irish winter. Every screen is in the screenshot gallery.
Weekly Schedule
Recurring outings, erg sessions, and circuits entered once and shown to the whole membership week after week.
One-Tap Attendance
One tap says in or out. There is nothing to fill in and no poll to run.
Notifications
A prompt before every outing, and immediate word to the coach when a seat opens up. Members choose their own alerts in the member portal.
Session Types
Water, Erg, Circuits each carry their own icon, and members filter to what they row. A water outing connects through to boat booking.
Attendance Analytics
Learn which outings fill and which members turn out come rain or shine. The figures roll up into admin dashboard reports.
Coach Notes
The coach writes the plan onto the outing itself, so nobody arrives at the water wondering what the session holds. Found in the coach tools suite.
How It Works
A handful of taps carries you from creating an outing to reading the turnout. Clubs like Oundle Town Rowing Club were running within the day. Curious about one erg piece? Our free erg pace calculator will tell you.
Admin Creates Sessions
Enter the recurring outings with their times, venues, and types
Members Get Notified
Members receive a prompt to answer in or out
Attendance Rolls In
Replies stack up into a live turnout figure
Related reading
- Taking the pain out of training admin
- A coach's guide to picking crews
- Understanding the numbers off the erg
Anything unanswered? Try the FAQ, hear what other clubs say, or go straight to view pricing.
Questions Irish clubs ask
Gathered from committees moving off polls and spreadsheets.
The club enters its outings, erg sessions, and circuits once; the system shows them to every member, gathers one-tap answers, sends the reminders, and passes the turnout figures on to selection and committee reports. That single flow replaces the poll in the group chat and the spreadsheet kept beside it. A member checks the week on their phone and answers; the coach walks down to the slip with crews already in mind.
Almost nothing. The next outing appears as a card; the member taps "Going" or "Not going" and may add a line - delayed at work, erg only, free to sub in. The turnout figure updates for the coach as answers land, and anyone still silent close to the outing gets a gentle chase. The stored history shows who turns out through the depths of winter, which counts for a great deal when Championships selection comes.
No. The schedule is entered once - an erg session Monday, water on Saturday mornings, the Sunday long paddle, a novice slot midweek - and repeats on its own. A single date can be pulled for a weather warning or moved to another stretch of river without upsetting the rest. Each outing can be shown to one squad only, so juniors, seniors, and masters each get a clean view of their own week.
Every member signed up for an outing hears about it a few hours beforehand, and anyone who never answered hears separately. Clubs set the lead time themselves - a day out or two hours out. When the river comes up and an outing has to move, the coach broadcasts once and the whole outing knows within seconds, sparing everyone the early-morning WhatsApp flurry. Alert choices sit with each member.
It can, and clubs lean on it heavily. The crew builder shows the coach each member's recent turnout, erg work, and availability side by side, so picking crews for Skibbereen or the Irish Championships starts from evidence rather than memory. The race-week spreadsheet rebuild is gone, and once seats are settled, members are notified of their boat directly - no waiting on an announcement.
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From sign-up to a published week of outings in ten minutes