We have cycling, RowErg, and SwimErg FTP settings. The obvious remark here, for this slightly odd set, is why do we have SwimErg (surely an exceptionally niche category), yet no SkiErg to go along with the RowErg (I’d hazard to guess that however comparatively few potential C2 SkiErg users there are compared to cyclists with an interest in TrainerDay, they are still at least one order of magnitude higher than SwimErg users). I’d love to be able to use TrainerDay whilst training on my SkiErg.
However, talk of specific machines/devices actually makes limited sense when there is a far bigger picture here.
What TrainerDay represents, and has a unique opportunity to offer, is something that is precisely NOT JUST a cycling power training platform, but in fact a “structured power training workouts for ANY device platform/continuous exercise type that supports power”. Now, of course, cyclists probably represent 90% of that target market, and can feature most prominently in the marketing, but still…
So the addition of a RowErg FTP setting is very welcome. But why stop there.
Instead, and here is the feature request, paying subscribers should have the option to define, say (let’s say 6) custom
name/label → FTP value
mappings, because that is all that they are.
These custom “name → FTP” mappings can be user-assigned its own relevant name (e.g. “Tacx Turbo”, “Wattbike”, “RowErg”, “SkiErg”, “Treadmill”), and particular icon.
Anyway, I have a SkiErg, so as a workaround, I’ll have to use the SwimErg FTP value for my SkiErg. It just seems super odd to me that having taken this additional (very welcome step), that you didn’t carry the concept/idea through, as described above, and then create the FIRST true MULTI-DEVICE/multi-sport integrated power training platform.
Or, at the very very least, having created RowErg, not created SkiErg to match, for all of us Concept2 fanboys/fangirls
You’re kind of missing a trick here. For almost zero extra development effort, you could also market your platform to all of the Concept2 community, and also things like the whole Crossfit community. The vast majority of the brilliant set of workouts on TrainerDay apply just fine to either a rowing machine or ski machine (or perhaps even something like a Nordic cross trainer or whatever), but clearly, every piece of equipment/machine/activity will need its own individual FTP value.
Garmin are still guilty of this, for some reason they don’t allow you to setup any rowing power zones, meaning all of the power data reported in their workout analysis for rowing activities, etc, is largely worthless, as almost nobody has a rowing power equivalent to their cycling power, if they’ve done even a modest amount of training across both. Rowing FTP is quite a bit lower, and SkiErg FTP is almost certainly lower than RowErg FTP, etc.