Plan and track rowing training sessions
One tap from each member and the crew list writes itself. Coaches check numbers from the kitchen table, not a group chat. No polls, no messy spreadsheets.
What is training session software for a rowing club?
For a Kiwi club, training session software means the whole programme lives in one feed: water rows on the lake, erg sets in the shed, circuits in town. Members tap in or out from their phones and get reminded before each session. Coaches see the count without asking, and every response is banked, so when a Maadi Cup campaign or club championships selection arrives, the attendance evidence is already sitting there.
Session planning ships with every tier - the pricing page lists what each band costs.
Group-chat guesswork vs Row HQ
What actually changes
Without Row HQ
- Polls in the group chat that trail off unanswered
- A shared spreadsheet three versions behind reality
- A 5.30am pull-out and no way to rejig the crews in time
- Zero attendance history when selection debates start
- Half the squad unsure what is on this week
With Row HQ
- Attendance confirmed with one tap on any phone
- A live availability picture, never a stale one
- Changes pushed to phones the moment they happen
- The full attendance story in the admin dashboard
- One clear weekly programme the whole club can read
What the session tools cover
Made for how New Zealand clubs train - early water when the lake is glassy, ergs when the southerly rolls through. The screenshot gallery shows every screen.
Weekly Schedule
The recurring programme goes in once. School squads, seniors, and masters each read their own week at a glance.
One-Tap Attendance
A single tap records in or out. Nobody fills in a form and nobody runs a poll.
Notifications
Members get nudged before each session; coaches get told the second somebody withdraws. Alert preferences live with each member in the member portal.
Session Types
Water, Erg, Circuits - own icon each, and members filter to the type they train. A water session flows into boat booking.
Attendance Analytics
Which sessions draw a crowd, which members never miss - tracked over the season and surfaced in the admin dashboard.
Coach Notes
Coaches pin the workout to the session card, so the squad turns up knowing the plan. Sits inside the coach tools suite.
How It Works
Four steps take you from an empty calendar to live attendance. Want to sanity-check a single erg piece first? The free erg pace calculator takes seconds.
Admin Creates Sessions
The weekly pattern goes in with times, venues, and a type per session
Members Get Notified
Members are prompted to tap in or out
Attendance Rolls In
The live headcount builds as replies arrive
Related reading
- Bringing order to the training week
- Selection advice for club coaches
- What your erg numbers are telling you
More to ask? The FAQ is the quickest read, what other clubs say adds colour, and view pricing settles the cost question.
Common questions from Kiwi clubs
Asked by committees weighing up the switch away from polls and spreadsheets.
It runs the loop a club captain currently runs by hand. The programme - water, erg, circuits - is published to everyone at once; members tap to confirm; reminders go out automatically; and the totals land where selection and committee reporting need them. The poll-plus-spreadsheet routine most Kiwi clubs run today goes away. A member reads the week on their phone, and the coach reaches the shed with numbers already known and crews already sketched.
They open the app, find the next session card, and tap "Going" or "Not going". A short note is optional - late off work, erg only, keen as a spare. The coach watches the tally move live, and silence earns a reminder a few hours before the start. Because every reply is stored, a coach can tell the ever-presents from the fade-outs and back a selection call with the record rather than a hunch.
It can. Set it once - lake rows Tuesday and Saturday mornings, an erg night midweek, Sunday's long paddle, a school-squad slot after class - and it republishes itself indefinitely. One date can be shifted or scrapped for a southerly without touching the pattern, and visibility is per squad, so novices, seniors, and masters each see only the sessions meant for them.
Two kinds. A pre-session notice goes to everyone signed up, and a chase-up goes to anyone who has not answered. Each club picks its own timing, from a day ahead to a couple of hours before. Coaches can also blast a one-off message to a whole session - handy when the lake blows out and training moves onto the ergs - and it lands on every phone within seconds. Members choose which notices they want.
Tightly. The crew builder draws on the same attendance record, so at selection time - a regional regatta, club champs, or the road to Maadi - the coach already knows who trained, who kept the erg mileage up, and who is free on race day. Nobody reconstructs a spreadsheet the week of the event. Seat allocations flow back out as notifications, so each member learns their boat straight from the app.