Today’s training session was coded as “Tempo Load” but let’s just call it 4×1000 meters done in moderation, with a few constraints. Total session distance was 12K, with a total of about 1K warmup and warm down.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session consisted of 4 very short sprints of 200 meters each, within a total session distance of 6K. Added on to that was a 2K warmup and 2K warm down.
The sprints weren’t actually splashy of course, because it is indoor rowing, with the only water in the immediate environment being the humidity in the air and a few drops of sweat that drip onto the machine.
For the sprints, the HR range specified in the training detail was disregarded because I think the algorithm used in the software for providing the HR ranges is in most cases inaccurate and shows a range that is too low. So I just focused on staying within the specified SPM range and rowing hard during those 4x200m.
There was also a strength training session today, which was done before rowing. But that will be shown here after the rowing stuff.
The strength training was another short and simple dose of push-ups while following in the push-ups book mentioned earlier. Here are the results so far:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was five 2K intervals within 18,000 meters, plus another 1,250 meters of warmup and warm down. Altogether it was 19,250 meters, which is almost 12 miles.
Sometimes its more fun than at other times. Today it seemed a bit of a drag and I was happiest when it was over. Had to take a break for a call of nature during the rest period between the 4th and 5th 2K interval.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session was two 250 meter intervals within a 10,000 meter total distance. The two short intervals were fun. The rest of the 10K was a steady pace (except for the times when I switched to one-armed rowing while operating the remote control for music selection on youtube). There was a total of 2,750 meters of warmup/warm down.
Happy rowing to you.
If you compete in an event without training specifically for it beforehand, what kind of result might you expect? You’ll have to answer that question for yourself because your experience might be different than mine.
As for myself, I hadn’t thought about it before entering in the 2017 World Rowing Indoor Sprints. The distance was 1K. I did it and placed 6th in my age group. I wonder if any of the 5 guys ahead of me trained specifically for doing a 1K at that time?
Well, it was a lot of fun to be in an actual race, even though I did finish behind 5 other guys. That happened a few days ago, on March 11th…
TODAY is March 17th. Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Today’s training was a rest and recovery session of 6,000 meters. I did 4K of warmup and warm down to bring the day’s total up to 10K for the ongoing Mud Season Madness Challenge on Concept2.com.
If you are looking for the results of today’s strength training session, here it is:
Happy rowing to you.
Last night and this morning there was a problem which consisted of higher than normal HR. Resting HR last night was more than 10 above normal. When today’s training session started, HR was proportionately too high at the beginning. But this has happened before and the cure in each previous instance has always been to row at an effort level that would elevate HR but to only row moderately.
So today’s training session wasn’t done as hard as the training details called for. And doing it at a moderate effort level was sufficient to speed up HR and keep it elevated long enough for it to slow down. By the time the 16K was finished, everything was back to normal rhythm. The image below which best demonstrates how rowing cured elevated HR is the one that shows a graph of Pace and HR per Stroke.
Today’s training session was five 2K intervals within a total of 16k. Plus 1250 meters total of warmup and warm down. It can be seen in the graph of effort level (pace) and HR that the effort level was about the same in all 5 of the 2K intervals, but HR slowed down from first to last.
Ordinarily – if the training session had been done as called for – HR would have climbed from the first 2K to the last.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session was a rational number of meters not divisible by Pi to result in a rational quotient. It consisted of three 500 meter intervals within 10,000 meters, plus 1,250 meters for warmup and warm down.
In the area of strength-training, I managed to overcome huge reluctance and did the second session of the first week of the 10-week push-ups program. Below are the results so far:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session on Pi day turned out to be 14,000 meters. It is just a coincidence and had nothing to do with the fact that today is the 14th and even less to do with the fact that today is Pi Day.
Happy rowing to you.
An indoor rowing acquaintance told me about how he’s incorporating some strength training into his weekly routine, along with rowing. Push-ups were mentioned. I tried doing some push-ups, to see how many I could still do and the result was a paltry three.
So I got a book on the subject, called “7 Weeks To 100 Push-Ups,” by Steve Speirs. I read the instructions in the book and took the test. The test result was that I did 5 push-ups. I don’t know why there was an increase of 2, from a week or so before getting the book. But anyway – that put me into “beginner level 2” of 7 different possible levels.
Today was the first day. There will be 3 push-up workouts every week. The results for today can be seen in the image below.
Today’s rowing was a 6,000 meter training session which included three 2oo meter intervals:
Happy rowing to you.
An alternative title for today might be Self Torture Is Always Optional. Today’s rowing was a clutter of disappointments. But not really. Let me explain why “not really”:
I started out the day to do another attempt at a better time for the 1K sprint. But after a few hundred meters I realized I didn’t have the desire or incentive or something along those lines and so I put the handle down before the going got tough.
Waited about an hour and then thought I’d try it again, but had the same results. I just didn’t want to push myself. Lack of desire. Or was it remembrance and avoidance of the experience of wheezing and gasping for breath, after yesterday’s 1K? Jesus knows.
Anyway – today’s motley collection of rowing pieces amounted to a little over 10K for the day and so I’m happy about that part, to have once again reached a daily quota of greater than or equal to 10K.
The training session was supposed to be a 6K Time Trial which is a 6K done at race pace. But after two handle-downs on the 1Ks, I decided to opt out of torturing myself and took it easy on the 6K.
May you have happiness in your endeavors.