Understanding Your ErgManiac Dashboard

Your ErgManiac dashboard is mission control for your rowing fitness. Instead of drowning in spreadsheets or scrolling through months of PM5 memory, everything lives in one place. This guide explains what each section shows and how to use it.

Recent Workouts

The top of your dashboard shows your most recent sessions in reverse chronological order. Each card displays:

• Date and time of the workout
• Workout type (steady state, intervals, time trial, etc.)
• Total distance and elapsed time
• Average split (pace per 500m)
• Average stroke rate
• Training zone the workout fell into

Tap any workout card to open the full detail view, which includes AI analysis, split-by-split data, and comparisons to similar past sessions.

This is also where you spot gaps in consistency, which matters more than intensity for long-term progress.

Personal Bests

ErgManiac automatically tracks your best times across standard rowing distances:

| Distance | What it measures | | --- | --- | | 500m | Raw power and anaerobic capacity | | 1000m | Speed endurance | | 2000m | The benchmark test for rowers | | 5000m | Aerobic power | | 6000m | Common training distance | | 10000m | Endurance baseline | | Half Marathon | Long-distance capacity |

Each PR shows the date it was set and your improvement since the previous best. You do not need to tag a workout as a "test" for it to count. If you row a 2000m piece during training and it happens to be your fastest ever, ErgManiac catches it.

Personal bests update in real time as you log workouts. If a PR is getting stale (3+ months old), it might be time to retest.

Fitness Score

Your fitness score is a single number from 1 to 100 that captures your overall rowing fitness. It is calculated from three factors:

1. Recent performance: How fast you are rowing relative to your historical data
2. Training consistency: How regularly you are logging workouts
3. Volume trends: Whether your total meters are increasing, stable, or declining

The score updates weekly. A score of 50 means you are at your baseline. Scores above 60 indicate you are in a good training block. Scores above 80 mean you are in strong form.

Do not panic if your score dips after a rest week. That is normal and expected. The score is a trend indicator, not a daily report card.

Training Volume

This section shows two views of your rowing volume:

Weekly Volume

A bar chart of total meters per week over the past 8 weeks. Rule of thumb: increase by no more than 10% per week.

Monthly Volume

Total meters per month over the past 6 months. This smooths out individual week variations and shows seasonal patterns.

For most recreational rowers, 40,000-80,000 meters per week is a solid base. Competitive rowers often target 80,000-120,000+.

Zone Distribution

This is arguably the most important section on your dashboard. It shows a breakdown of your training time across five zones:

• UT2 (Utilization 2): Easy aerobic work. Should be 60-70% of your total training.
• UT1 (Utilization 1): Moderate aerobic. Around 15-20%.
• AT (Anaerobic Threshold): Hard but sustainable. Around 10-15%.
• TR (Transport): Very hard. Around 3-5%.
• AN (Anaerobic): Maximum effort. Around 1-3%.

If your UT2 slice is small and your AT/TR slices are large, you are training too hard on easy days. Healthy zone distribution looks boring: lots of easy work, a small amount of hard work, and very little all-out effort.

How to Use the Dashboard

Check your dashboard once a week as part of your training routine. Ask yourself these questions:

1. Am I consistent? Look at recent workouts for gaps.
2. Am I progressing? Check personal bests for recent improvements.
3. Am I doing enough? Review training volume trends.
4. Am I doing the right mix? Examine zone distribution.

If all four answers are positive, keep doing what you are doing. If something is off, the dashboard tells you exactly where to adjust.