2022 Release notes

It used to be a pain to record the same workout for many athletes. Not anymore 🥳. Coxswains, this is the feature for you!

You can now add workouts for a whole group of people, like a boat, all at once.

Feedback Please!

This is an experimental feature and we’d love to hear what you have to say! Thank you to Rose City Rowing Club, Row New York, Vancouver Lake and Newport Aquatic Center for inspiring this feature!

For the fall season, we're bringing new ways for coaches to manage their rosters, understand their teams, and stay in touch. All while upgrading our service to handle the huge influx of new teams.

We know how hard it is to keep the important info organized -- heights, weights, sides shoe sizes, top 2ks, graduation years, and so on and so on. After a successful test with the Junior National Team camp this summer, we launched the CrewLAB Team Rosters to put it all in one place.

We took another pass on the group chat to make it more useful. We added links, we added images, you can see who liked things, and it's just generally smoother. Lots more to come here!

We stand firmly by the belief that high-performing athletes are mindful of their sleep tendencies and mood. So, we now encourage you to fill out the wellness survey every day. We've also simplified the charts, so you can actually see what's going on with yourself and your team.

Made tons of small changes to the video, workout logging, workout sorting, sign-up, feed, and more to make the experience even smoother.

This release comes with fixes to lots of minor, annoying bugs. Shout out to our LabCats 🐱 for giving us great feedback!

Stay up to date

We now let you know through the app when there's new functionality and bring you right to the app store to make it easy to get the latest.

Easier navigation

We added labels on the bottom bar to make it obvious what you're going to get.

We've got BIG changes in CrewLAB inspired by our time with the Junior National Team this summer. 150 Olympic hopefuls and collegiate coaches helped us totally reinvent the product.

Our goal is to improve the daily life of athletes and coaches. Whether it's tracking how you are feeling, communicating with teammates, or figuring out what your coach is trying to say about your catch, CrewLAB now has a tool for you.

The Team HQ

Listen up, coaches! We are officially taking the Team HQ web app out of Beta (which used to be called the Coach's Corner). We believe that it is robust and ready to help you make your team the best it can be. Click around and you'll find all sorts of insights, workout personalizers, and more.

Group Chats

Never miss a beat on what's going on with the team. In our group chat, you now have an uncomplicated official communications channel to message and @mention teammates.

Lineups

Making and sharing boat lineups shouldn't be a hassle. Through the Team HQ, coaches can use that familiar stick board layout to build boats that will appear automatically in the app.

Video

Gone are the days of Airdrops and 300 Google Drive links. Upload and access all of your team's videos through CrewLAB. We make it simple to find just the videos that are relevant to you

Daily Check-Ins

High-performing athletes are mindful of their habits. The fundamentals of sleeping well and understanding your mental state can yield results far greater than more time on the erg. That's why we built a 5-second check-in survey to help you build that self-awareness.

We made general UI changes and bug fixes to make the platform more reliable.

Notification Overhaul

Never miss a message from your coach again. We revamped the notification experience to make it easy to connect with your team. All notifications are stored in one place – keeping the conversation going.

Mentions

Get the attention that you deserve with a direct mention using the @ character and typing a name. You can do this on workout notes, comments and announcements. This will have you saying... "Why are we using GroupMe again?

Badges

Now you can tell at a glance from the home screen if you have new messages from your team.

Various small changes to make using the platform better.

This release is packed with great ways to review your training history on CrewLAB. We categorize and link all your workouts for you, so you can easily see attendance, proudly track improvements and compete with your teammates.

Instant Results

You can finally delete the spreadsheets. For all workouts, you can now immediately see results for that session and compare it to all of history.

Team Accountability

The whole crew goes faster when you work as a team, so you can now see who did or did not complete each workout and help them stay on target.

Assignment History

That said, we know that you can't do every workout. Life gets in the way. For when you're trying to catch up, you can now find the all assigned team workouts in one place.

Training Accuracy

At CrewLAB, we believe that training should be scientific. The coach prescribes training with a clear goal and athletes should strive to be accurate to the plan, so we've introduced the concept of training Accuracy.

Coaching Tools

Coaches, to maximize the value that your team gets from these tools, check out our Coaching Tools (beta) website at app.crewlab.io.

If you'd like to learn more about how to use tools effectively for your team, set up a quick meeting or email us!

We're excited to bring you CrewLAB 3.0 – a smoother and more reliable platform. Thank you for being patient with us as we keep innovating and keep the feedback coming!

Platform Overhaul

We completely rebuilt the platform from the ground up for stability -- and snuck in some minor improvements along the way.

Coaching Tools - BETA

Not only that, we have made our Coaching Tools Beta generally available for our Early Access teams. This portal is designed to allow coaches to assign workouts that are personalized to the athlete and see the big picture of their team in one place.

CrewLAB Coaching Tools

Various small changes along the way to make using the platform better.