Month: August 2018

An Early Quit

Today’s rowing distance was going to be 12,992 meters but it was cut short at around the halfway mark. The reason it was cut short is because the heart, which had been making occasional sputters of irregularity, shifted in to total irregularity and started beating way too fast for the low effort level.

Another way to say it is, that the rowing stopped being fun.

The session was recorded and is available at: Indoor Rowing 377 Calories early quit 08172018

Happy rowing to you.

Revenge On The Cheetos

 

One way to burn calories without exercising is to literally set the food on fire. In the photo above, someone is burning the calories in a single peanut.

Taste bud temptation got the better of me and I recently made the impulsive purchase of a largish bag of “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos”.  The cashier tried to warn me about them, saying things like “they are just too hot!” and “they don’t have any flavor, they just hurt!”.  Though I disagreed with him, I just smiled and told him I’d “give them a chance,” or something like that.

I used to indulge in the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos rather frequently.  Never could eat just one … bag … of them.  Always had to get another bag of them before very much time passed.  I liked what I remembered of both the flavor and their heat.

So when I told the Flamin’Hot Cheetos-hating cashier I’d “give them a chance,” what I meant was that I hoped they were the same as I remembered them.  They were.  I ate a lot of them, to the astonishment and gracious admonishment of my better half.  She (my better half) referred to the back of the bag and calculated that I had consumed about 3,000 calories.

Wow that’s quite a bit.

So today I decided to row 10K.  It might be said that I took a little bit of “revenge” on that Cheeto indulgence, by burning 580 calories rowing today.  Of course, that is only about 19% of the 3,000 calories… so I’d have to row four more 10Ks and then some in addition to those, to merely “break even” on the cheating with Cheetos calories fling.

Anyone feel like keeping me company for an online marathon?  Those 42,195 meters ought to help finish the job of burning the remainder of the 3,000 excess calories.  If you’d like to row a marathon online with me, let me know.  Until then, I will be doing shorter daily distances.

Don’t believe all the tables you find on the internet. There’s something wrong with this chart that I found today because it shows that for someone of my age, according to my heart rate today I was in the “anaerobic (hardcore training)” zone much of the time. But that is simply NOT true because if anybody is in the anaerobic zone, they are breathing hard. I was breathing quite slow and easy.

Any level of exercise will burn calories.  My effort level for today’s 10K was subjectively classified as “easy” because I never had to breathe harder than as if I were walking leisurely.

Today’s 10K was put on YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: Indoor Rowing 580 Calories 08162018

Happy rowing to you.

Rock And Row

After today’s indoor rowing session was done and I touched the Apple Watch to have it stop logging the rowing workout, one of my Activity friends for that watch app sent the encouraging message, “You rock!” (The Apple Watch app gives you the option to reply each time it notifies you that one of your activity friends has completed some kind of workout.  It has a varying selection of pre-formatted responses that you can opt from to send to that friend also.)

I don’t always respond back, because they don’t expect it for most of them, but this time I responded back with my pun for the day of “Rock and row.” A while later, she took a few more moments from her busy day and responded to my pun with “Ha ha” which I thought was nice also, since my puns usually only get groans in response.

Today’s session was 5,344 meters in 16 splits.  A screen recording for rowing-along is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 321 Calories 08132018

Happy rowing to you.

Smooth Fun, But Short Fun

Today’s session was 2751 meters, chosen to match the meters rowed yesterday by training partner DN.  The session was limited to no more than those meters because of time constraints.  It was fun, because the heart behaved smoothly, unlike its behavior yesterday.

A screen recording is posted at this link:  Indoor Rowing 159 Calories 08072018

Happy rowing to you.