Month: October 2018

A Slow Climb Into Heart Rate Zone

Today’s session was another 10K.  With a heart rate target zone. At the beginning, I felt a bit tired and decided to use the first 3K as a warmup instead of ramping up immediately to get into the target zone of 138-150 BPM.

After the first 3K I decided to continue the slower pace and see how it went.  I’m not sure if I was tired or if the particular music playlist I chose to listen to through earphones was a drag.  I didn’t care for any of the music, so it may have at least been a contributing factor.

Whatever the underlying reason, every stroke was accompanied with reluctance and inertia and required extra willpower to do.  Therefore today’s session is not being tagged in the category of “Fun Workout”. It did feel good and resemble “fun”, however, when it was finished.

A screen recording of the session is available for row-along at: Indoor Rowing Slow Climb To Heart Zone 10312018

Happy rowing to you.

Absent Minded Excess

Today’s rowing session was 10K with target HR zone of 138 to 150.  For a few minutes during the session I was absent minded from rowing, letting my thoughts drift elsewhere.  During those few minutes, HR exceeded the upper boundary.

A screen recording is uploading and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K w target HR 10302018

Happy rowing to you.

First Rowing In Ten Days

Today’s is the first rowing session since earlier this same month on the  19th.  This session was 10K done with a target heart rate zone of 137 to 149.  The first 2K was done slowest, to serve as a warm up.  After the first 2K I stopped and announced to the “viewing audience” that the warmup was over.

A screen recording is being uploaded and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with heart rate zone 10292018

Happy rowing to you.

Routine Brain Cleaning

Today’s session was another 10K done with target heart rate zone.  The target zone was 133 to 150 BPM.

An article I saw recently mentioned that sustained aerobic exercise literally “cleans the brain,” as I may have mentioned recently in another blog post.  So today’s rowing session could be considered a routine brain cleaning, from that perspective.

A screen recording was made and will become available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K No Warmup 10192018

Happy rowing to you.

Tweaking The HR Zone

Today’s 10K was like yesterday’s but the HR zone was increased to be from 138 to 150 BPM.

The glitches in the early part of the HR graphs were due to hardware, not heartware – the heart strap wasn’t quite moist enough at the beginning.

A screen recording for rowing along with will be available at this link: Indoor Rowing heart rate zone 138 to 150 BPM 10182018

Happy rowing to you.

At Least 133 And No More Than 143

Target heart rate today was the lowest zone, zone 1 of 5 zones.  For me, that was from 133 BPM to 143 BPM.  Yours will vary because you are unique.

Screen recording for rowing-along will be at this link, later today: Indoor Rowing 10K with target heart rate 133 to 144 10172018

Happy rowing to you.

10K Interrupted And With Breaks

Today’s session was 10K with a target heart rate zone of 144 to 158.  It was preceded by a one minute warmup. The session was interrupted once when I had to get off the rowing machine for a few minutes.  And there were a few shorter breaks after that.

Irregularities in the HR graph are due to the interruptions and not to any paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. The last time I had an episode of the latter was September 1st of this year.  Hopefully it is “cured” with the diet and lifestyle changes that have been made. Heart rhythm was perfectly fine!

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and will eventually be available at the following link: Indoor Rowing 10K with target heart rate 10132018

Happy rowing to you.

A Bit Harder Than I Thought

After three whole days off I thought perhaps I’d have an extra reserve of energy so I increased the average pace goal for today’s 10K from 2:13.2/500 meters to 2:12.8/500 meters and then sprinted moderately during the last 500 meters to increase pace by another 1/10th of a second to 2:12.7.

The perceived effort was harder than I anticipated.

A screen recording for rowing along with today’s session is at this link: Indoor Rowing at about 815 Calories:hour 10082018

Happy rowing to you.