Hello, I have a Cecotec Drumfit Rower 20000 Neptuno Wood rower and, luckily, it works very well for me with TrainerDay, despite advertising that it only works with Kinomap.
Now I have a question, I would like a rower with ERG that is synchronized with Trainer Day and that also regulates its strength, adapting to a cool-down at intervals created in TrainerDay.
I would like to know if the app would work with the Decathlon “Training Rower 900” rower, which claims to work with Kinomap and allows you to regulate the force through it.
Would there be a way to know before spending the money?
I did a quick search and of that trainer and FTMS and nothing comes up. I would say the chance is close to zero. It says resistance levels, which is not the same as ERG.
You likely know more about rowing than I do, but I have a C2 rower and from my understanding resistance levels are more of a personal feeling not something you change for different intensities… For marketing maybe resistance levels makes it sound this way.
There are some smart experienced rowers on some of those Facebook groups. Below is what AI said which confirms my understanding.
Rowers:
Resistance is essentially passive - controlled by damper settings (airflow on Concept2, magnetic resistance on others)
The damper is more about “feel” than actual resistance - like gearing on a bike
Power output is entirely dependent on how hard you pull - the machine can’t force you to hit a specific wattage
You can’t have true “ERG mode” - the athlete must self-regulate to hit power targets
A damper setting of 5 on one stroke could be 150 watts or 350 watts depending on your effort
Thank you very much for the answer, okay, I thought that some paddles with magnetic resistance could offer an experience similar to that of cycling rollers. I love TrainerDay because it goes great with my Wahoo Kickr Core, allows me to do different types of training, softer, more intense, varied, etc. I thought you could achieve something similar with a magnetic roller.
In the description of the rowing, on his website, he puts the following (I had made illusions):
I’m pretty sure with rowing, everything I’ve read and learned is you don’t change the resistance for more power, you pull harder. So it’s quite different than cycling in this regard. That sounds like it’s just like your rower. If you’re reading your power data from your trainer to trainer day, that’s all you need. Add in strokes per minute or essentially RPM. Talk to some top guys in rowing. They think that power is a better metric than speed/pace for rowing and cycling is the same for the most part, at least from a training perspective.
