asensei - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Workout with your Concept 2, WaterRower or FluidRower rowing machine. Be guided by world-class athletes and instructors. Follow structured training programs to improve yourself and your times or just choose your own workout. asensei customizes challenges to meet your capability and pushes you to your potential.

asensei guides and monitors your practice on and off your rowing machine. More than a workout, this is a series of lessons - build strength and fitness alongside skill and technique as you are guided, monitored and corrected through these programs by your very own personal coach, asensei.

asensei talks to the monitor on your rowing machine, reads force curves, analyzes your performance and uses that to inform your practice. Are you losing power at higher stroke rates? Are you losing length when you’re tired? Do you find it hard to hold lower stroke rates consistently? Are you rushing the recovery? Compensating for poor leg drive with over-use of your arms?

asensei knows. And she’ll be sure to let you know.

Practice. Perfected.

FEATURES:

PROGRAMS, PERSONALIZED: there's a program for you whether it's a 2km, 6km or 30min challenge you are looking for. Designed to challenge, improve and adapted for you.

COACHING, UNPARALLELED: Say hello to the world´s best coaches. Olympic Gold Medalist Eric Murray, British Rowing, Johan Quie, Shane Farmer of Dark Horse Rowing. They set the work; asensei makes it work for you. Watching, responding, adjusting, encouraging - just as they would.

ANALYSIS, DELIVERED: Row - record - watch - rewind - remember. The old ways are over. asensei watches you move, as you move, responds in the moment and evaluates over time.

PERFECT FOR:

* Beginners - if you are new to rowing learn correct technique and be challenged as you workout.
* Intermediate rowers - refresh your skills, learn new tips, get back into the groove and take things to the next level.
* High-school or college athletes who wish to get win a seat in the boat, get recruited, or compete nationally and internationally.
* Indoor Rowers or Crossfit (TM) athletes who wish to improve their indoor rowing technique and scores.
* Those who want to get fitter and stronger with the excitement of a studio fitness class and the attention of a personal trainer

REQUIREMENTS:

Requires a compatible rowing machine:
* Concept 2 with a PM5 performance monitor
* WaterRower with an S4 performance monitor and a Bluetooth ComModule
* FluidRower with a Bluetooth console.

We connect to the Health app to monitor heart rate on some workouts.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

“I was fortunate enough to have great coaches from the very beginning of my rowing career. This meant I wasn’t taking thousands of bad rowing strokes, ingraining bad habits. The potential for asensei to provide quality feedback before bad habits are formed is really exciting", Helen Glover, 2x Olympic Gold Medallist and World #1 Rower.

"Just when you thought (sports) technology couldn't get any cooler, along comes asensei", CBS Television

"... the next frontier in the fitness tech revolution ... a wildly ambitious goal ... able to guide you through everything from form and recovery to metrics and goals while improving your individual results ... future of personal training", Men's Health

Here's what users had to say:

"someone keeping an eye on you the whole time is really cool because ... it keeps you honest, keeps you on track in a way that I don't think a coach normally can unless you are doing a one on one session, so it was the benefit of a one on one, with the class dynamic, which I really like!"

"It's a cool product. I've never ever seen anything like that. In 5 minutes I learned how to row, I thought I was doing it right, but I wasn't"

"(asensei) said don't worry there's a bunch of exercises I'm going to give to you afterwards that are going to help you on that. ... that's amazing. ... this is not just about now, it's like building a relationship."

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User Rating

4.73 out of 5

1,076 ratings in United Kingdom

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Enjoying the app, just a few niggles

Enjoying the rowing coaching that this App provides. As a beginner, it's nice to be able to visually follow coaches on screen as they talk you through the sessions. I find the price a little expensive so not sure if I will subscribe long term and I'm also having issues when connecting to a bluetooth speaker from my iPad. The App sometimes goes silent during workouts. This seems to happen during transitions within the workout ?

Review

I have been using Asensei for a few years now and find it a fabulous app for structured and motivational training on the erg. The technical back up is also excellent - responsive and effective.

Wow

I’m so glad I found this app

Can’t connect

The app seems intriguing, but I cannot try it because it doesn’t connect to Waterrower Performance (this one also has bluetooth)

Slow Progress

Sadly let my membership lapse. Would like to have seen some feature updates such as custom distance workouts with pace configuration. The Good: Concept2 LogBook integration British Rowing affiliation Nicky designed Currently trialing a competing app, whose gamified perspective and nice visuals is proving a refreshing change. Will definitely revisit Asensei in the future.

Hopeless

App worked fine for my WaterRower during a trial. Then, having purchased an annual plan, it worked once but now no longer wants to pair. Spent hours trying to sort things. Have emailed asking for assistance but heard nothing.

So disappointed, but getting used to it

All sounds great, just buggy as hell. Hope they get it working soon. OK a few weeks on. The chat style interface doesn’t get any less annoying. UI is quite unintuitive. Coaching is good, but display is not clear when rowing even on a tablet. Needs bigger digits in a clearer typeface. No evidence of any AI yet just pacing tables. Annoying quirk is that pace is shown on screen live from rower, but in results calculated from total time/distance. So you can think you have kept pace but get to the end and find out you were just off target. The display should show the overall pace so that you know if you have to go a bit faster to meet target.

Level 1

Instructions are appropriate but the music is diversionary and unnecessary.

Minor updates for 2 years

Content is amazing, app is terrible with close to zero updates or improvements Update 1: I appreciate your quick responce but I can’t agree that you did 20 updates in the last year when for the past 2 years the app remains majorly unchanged. If you can point out to me the said 20 changes I would be glad to increase the stars instantly but “bug fixes and improvements” doesn’t count

I returned to Asensei…

Previously used Asensei for about 18 months and decided to try other apps for a change and variety. After a year away… I m back to Asensei. Personally, I like the video accompaniment, watching the form and pace… the interaction with the app (telling you to slow down or speed up) gives me the confidence I am doing a quality workout. The coaches are excellent and couldn’t be more qualified. I enjoy the variety and the fact I just have to get myself to the rower… connect and the sessions are done for me. I am not a rower by background - far from it - but I wish I had discovered this all over body workout earlier. Such good exercise and the technology on Asensei makes it easy for non-rowers like me to get the most out of the exercise. I’m even looking forward to the apparel when it is released… I think this app is turning me into a geek! Whatever works, works right!

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