Athlea Rowing

Every stroke,
built toward
your race.

The rowing hub is live in the Athlea app — the same coaching engine that runs Run and Cycle, tuned to the erg. Your work is built around the number that matters, the split per 500 m, with stroke rate alongside it. Five session types from steady-state base to power sprints, the classic erg distances, and a rowing coach that reads your week. Erg-first today; on-water is on the roadmap.

1:52 /500m
Split
20 spm
Stroke rate
6.0 km
Distance
24 min
Duration
Where it stands: rowing ships erg-first — the hub, the split-per-500 m metrics, the five session types and the rowing coach are live in the app today. On-water GPS and an Apple Watch rowing app are on the roadmap, and this page labels which is which.
Where rowing actually is

Live in the app.
Erg-first, and growing.

Rowing runs on the same hub as Run and Cycle, so most of what a rowing athlete needs is already here. Here is the honest split — what ships today, what is landing now, and what is still roadmap.

Live today
A real rowing hub
In the app now, on the same engine as Run and Cycle.
The rowing hub — the same EnduranceHub organism that powers Run and Cycle, tuned to the erg.
Split per 500 m as the primary tempo metric, with stroke rate (spm), distance and duration.
Five session types and the 2K / 5K / 6K / 10K distance presets.
A live rowing coach, and rowing scored in the shared one-currency load model.
Ingest from Apple Health, Android Health Connect, Garmin and FIT / TCX / CSV.
Landing now
Session generation
Freshly landed and sharpening week to week.
Coach-generated rowing sessions have just landed — the recommend-and-explain flow the other sports use, now producing rowing pieces.
The session detail — per-segment split and stroke-rate targets — fills out as the generator matures.
Expect it to improve as you use it, not to arrive finished.
Roadmap
Not in yet
Worth telling you about; nothing here has a date.
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On-water rowing — GPS pace and a saved water-route trace. Water-route storage is net-new; erg is the shipped surface.
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A rowing app on the Apple Watch. Rowing has no watch app today (see below).
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Drill and technique video for the stroke.
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Adaptive plans with a regatta-date taper.
01
The hub Live today

The split per 500
is the whole language.

Every rowing number resolves to one: the split per 500 m, the pace a rower actually thinks in. Athlea leads with it and reads stroke rate alongside, so you know not just how fast, but how you got there — long and strong, or short and frantic. It is the same hub Run and Cycle ship on, so your rowing sits next to the rest of your training rather than in a silo.

Split leads, stroke rate explains it
The /500 m split is the primary metric; stroke rate (spm) sits with it. A fast split at a low rate is efficiency you can bank — the two numbers read together tell you which.
One hub, every endurance sport
Rowing renders through the same EnduranceHub as Run and Cycle — the same today card, the same trends, the same insights. Nothing about rowing is a bolt-on.
It counts toward everything else
A hard 6K lands in the same one-currency load model as your runs, rides and lifts — so a heavy rowing week shows up against the rest of your training, not beside it.
Live today
This is the shipped hub, not a target — the metrics, session types and distances shown here come straight from the app's rowing configuration.
Illustrative 9:41
Rowing
Row
Every stroke with a purpose — long, strong, and built toward your race.
1:52 /500m
Split
20 spm
Stroke rate
6.0 km
Distance
24 min
Duration
Start an open row
Today
Train
Insights
Coach
Profile
Row hub · today
The blurb, then the four metrics — split leading.
02
The sessions Live today

Five session types,
named by physiology.

The sessions everything builds on. Tap one to shape today around it. These are the real taxonomy in the app — labelled by the training zones a rower already knows, from UT2 base mileage to flat-out power, so the intent of each piece is unmistakable.

UT2
Steady
Base aerobic volume
VO₂ · AT
Intervals
Power at the top end
AT / TR
Threshold
Sustained split work
UT1
Long
Building the engine
Power
Sprints
Short, maximal efforts
2KTest
The benchmark piece — raced fresh.
5KAerobic
Threshold split work, weekly.
6KClassic
Sustained tempo, builds the engine.
10KLong
Big aerobic base at a steady rate.
One line, five decisions
4 × 500 m @ 1:52 R24 AT · 1:00 rest
4 × 500 mreps × distance
@ 1:52target split /500 m
R24stroke rate cap
ATtraining zone
1:00rest between reps
Illustrative 9:42
Recommended · Steady
Steady State · UT2
6 km SR 18–20 2:04 /500m
Warm-up · 10 min
SR 16–18 · build the length
2:12
Steady · 20 min
SR 18–20 · hold the split
2:04
Steady · 20 min
SR 20 · steady pressure
2:03
Cool-down · 10 min
easy · unwind the rate
2:18
Why today. Building your aerobic base — steady state. Rate before pressure; if the length slips, ease off before you chase the split.
Start piece
Session · steady state
Split and stroke-rate targets, segment by segment.
The coach picks and explains
The hub leads with one recommended piece and a plain reason for it — the same recommend-and-explain pattern Run and Cycle ship. Rowing session generation has just landed, so expect it to sharpen with use.
Targets in a rower's units
Every segment carries a split and a stroke-rate window — the two numbers a rower steers by — rather than a generic effort blob.
Or just start an open row
Not every session is prescribed. Push off into a free row and it still lands in the hub, the load model and your trends — coached or not.
On the wrist Coming — not built

The watch app is
next, not now.

Straight answer: rowing has no Apple Watch app today. Run and Strength already ship on the watch, and rowing will ride that same pipeline when it is built — a wrist screen that leads with the split, holds the stroke rate, and records the piece offline. The screen below is a design target, drawn so you can see where it is going, not a photograph of a shipped feature.

Split, huge, on the wrist
The plan is to lead the watch face with the /500 m split and the current stroke rate — the two numbers you steer by — the way the running watch leads with pace.
Follow the piece, hands-free
Segment targets pushed from the phone, advancing as you row — the same prescription-to-watch handoff Run and Strength already ship. For rowing it is designed, not delivered.
Records offline, syncs after
Record the piece on the wrist and let it sync to the hub at the finish — the intended path, once the rowing watch app exists.
Roadmap
None of this is in your hands yet. Rowing has no watch experience today; what ships now is the phone hub above. We are showing the watch target so the roadmap is legible, not to imply it is live.
◷ Design target
Steady · 20:00
2:04
/500m · on target
20 spm 6.0km
Rowing watch · design target
Not shipped — rowing has no watch app yet.
After erg-first v1

Things we want to build.
Not things we've built.

These are on the plan and nothing more than that. No dates, no waiting list, no implication that any of it is around the corner. They are here because they say something honest about where rowing is heading.

On-water rowing
Planned
The erg piece, taken to the water: GPS pace, a saved route trace, and rate per stroke where the erg gives you a split. Erg is the shipped surface for v1 — water-route storage is net-new data, so on-water is a build, not a claim.
Apple Watch rowing app
Planned
The wrist experience shown above — split-led face, pushed session targets, offline recording — riding the same watch pipeline Run and Strength already ship. Designed, not delivered.
Drill and technique library
Planned
Video for the stroke — sequencing, the catch, the finish — so a drill means something to a rower who has not been coached through it in person. It pairs with the session library.
Adaptive rowing plans
Planned
Regatta-date driven plans that taper themselves and swap sessions when a week goes sideways. Structured plans first; the adaptation layer follows.
How it compares

Three ways to train the erg.
Only one keeps coaching you.

A chatbot can write an erg plan. A rowing app can run a piece. Athlea's rowing hub is live — and it keeps your erg work in one picture with everything else you train. The watch and on-water rows are marked as they stand.

What it actually does
Generic Chat
Other rowing apps
Athlea Rowing
Conversational — you can ask, push back, change your mind
Speaks the erg's language — split /500 m and stroke rate
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Session types named by physiology — UT2 to power, live today
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Counts rowing into one training picture with runs, rides & lifts
Adjusts your week from what you actually did, on its own
On the wrist & on the water — watch app and GPS rows
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Yes ~ Sometimes / varies by app No On the roadmap — see the status board
Working today
Apple Health
Erg & rowing workouts, distance, heart rate
Garmin
Activity sync across your Athlea sports
Health Connect · files
Android Health Connect & FIT / TCX / CSV import
On-water GPS
Roadmap — erg is the shipped surface today
Athlea Rowing

Put your rowing
in one place.

The rowing hub is live and erg-first, with the split, the session types and the coach already in the app. Join the beta to row on it — and to help shape the on-water and watch work that comes next.