What is Norvin?

Norvin is a training plan and live rowing coach for indoor rowers, in an iPhone app. It builds a plan around your goal and your week, guides every session live on your rower, reads what you actually rowed, and adjusts what comes next.

What Norvin does

• Builds your plan. Tell Norvin your goal, how experienced you are, how fast you row today and which days you can train. It builds a periodized plan on British Rowing methodology, using the 5-zone system (UT2, UT1, AT, TR, AN).
• Rows with you. Norvin connects to your rower over Bluetooth and shows each step of the workout live: your pace against the target, your stroke rate and what's coming next. Row with your numbers, or through an immersive scene.
• Reads every row. After each session you get an analysis of how it went against the plan, in plain language, and what it means for the days ahead.
• Adapts. A missed day, a row that felt harder than it should, a new best — your plan takes what happened into account and adjusts. No catch-up sessions, no guilt.

The core loop is simple: row today's workout, read the analysis, and let the plan adjust. Repeat.

What you need

• An iPhone (or iPad).
• A rower. Norvin connects live to a Concept2 PM5, and other Bluetooth rowers have early support. No Bluetooth on your rower? You can log rows by hand or bring them in from your Concept2 Logbook.
• A heart rate strap is optional. It sharpens the analysis, and everything works without one.

How it decides

Training zones, session structure, progression and weekly Training Load come from established rowing methodology and fixed rules — not from an AI guessing. AI writes the words — your analysis, the Coach's note and your plan's summary — never the training decisions. More on how your plan is built.

Who it's for

Norvin is for indoor rowers who train regularly and want structure: people rowing a few times a week who want to know their training is moving them forward, from returning beginners to competitive ergers. Rowing is the one sport Norvin coaches today.

What Norvin isn't

Norvin isn't a substitute for a doctor, a physio or an in-person coach watching your technique. It makes structured, adaptive training available without a coaching relationship or a sports science background.