Altogether there were sixteen mostly short sessions done today. Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with today’s date. See their data & graphs by clicking the corresponding “+” signs in the “Action” column.
There was no atrial fibrillation detected after mid-morning today – hooray!
Happy rowing to you!
On Tuesday, February 11th, I did relatively little on the ergs and on Tuesday I also “went into hiding” from the blogosphere and didn’t post anything to this blog.
It didn’t help that there was atrial fibrillation all day yesterday. And all last night. And all day today.
But today I felt the urge to emerge, so here is a blog post.
Altogether there was 28,802 meters in the sessions done yesterday and today. Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with yesterday or today’s date. See their data & graphs by clicking the corresponding “+” signs in the “Action” column.
Today’s main workout session was a slow 10K done on the rowing machine, with many interruptions.
Happy rowing to you!
Today I was shy. The original goal was to do a total distance of 42,195 meters by breaking it up into shorter distances. But after rowing 10,000 meters shy of marathon distance it felt like I’d done more than enough to sleep well tonight so I called it quits for the day.
Altogether there was 32,195 meters in 8 sessions done today. Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with today’s date. See their data & graphs by clicking the corresponding “+” signs in the “Action” column.
Happy rowing and good sleeping to you!
There were a total of seven workout session segments today. None of them were very long. The longest was 7,000 meters while rowing.
You can see all graphs and data for them via this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
If you look closely at the RowPro-generated HR graph for the 7K, you’ll notice that it’s kinda crazy. Slope of the graph is descending though pace is fairly constant and rate is “impossibly” low for the effort level. It was graphed using data from the Garmin chest heart strap. The green-on-black graph below it looks totally reasonable so it was probably correct. It shows HR in normal range throughout the 7K. It used data from a Scosche optical heart strap. The Scosche is worn on the arm and I call it an “optical” strap because its method of detecting pulse relies on monitoring changes in the amount of reflected light instead of monitoring the body’s electrical current through the heart.
There was no atrial fibrillation just before, during or immediately following today’s rowing; therefore the weird Garmin HR graph was caused by something else. My guess is that it was averaging the strongest periodic pulses recognized by its algorithm and the heart was on the brink of atrial fibrillation, generating pairs of pulses instead of single pulses for each beat whose phase relationship did not remain constant.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s title relates to the “detraining” approach as a remedy for atrial fibrillation. AF was happening before, during and after today’s workouts so when it was time to do the customary daily 10K rowing, it was done even more gently today.
Altogether there were nine workout sessions today. They were all short except for the 10,000 meter rowing session which was a bit longer than any of the others. You can see the graphs and data for any of them by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s main workout was 30 minutes. Overall time and distance was less than yesterday but was more than 10K meters.
There was interference from atrial fibrillation and though I tried salty paste on the Garmin heart strap again today, like yesterday, it didn’t seem to make any difference. Atrial fibrillation overrode any benefit from better electrical conduction between chest and strap.
In addition to the 30 minute piece there were three other sessions. They were shorter, on both SkiErg and rowing machine. You can see the graphs and data for those by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters rowing at a steady pace averaging 2:33.3/500 meters.
In addition to the rowing 10K there were three other sessions. They were shorter, on both SkiErg and rowing machine, and they served as warmup before the 10K. You can see the graphs and data for those by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
Today I tried to solve the problem of lack of good connection between dry Garmin heart strap and dry chest. Salty moisture like sweat is what the Garmin strap seems to need to get a good signal. Plain water doesn’t work well.
As a substitute for perspiration I added a few drops of water to a teaspoon of salt, mixed it together and applied it under the Garmin heart strap’s electrodes. It worked well and the signal from was good from start to finish.
Coincidentally, the heart worked well also in that it had none of that fluttery atrial fibrillation which tends to mess up the heart rate graph.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters indoor rowing at a steady pace whose average target was 2:33.4/500 meters. It was the seventh of seven sessions today.
In addition to the rowing 10K there were six other sessions. They were shorter ones, on both SkiErg and rowing machine, which served as warmup before the 10K. You can see the graphs and data for any of those by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
But after all those warmups I was still cold with not an iota of perceived perspiration and that may be why it took quite a while for the Garmin heartstrap on the chest to start showing a signal. That particular heart strap seems to need to be very wet and perhaps a bit salty wet. Plain water doesn’t seem to do the trick. When it did start showing a heart rate signal, it was way too low. So the heart rate graph from the other heart strap, a Scoshe heart strap on the arm, will be shown also. It seemed to be realistically accurate.
I don’t know if I’ll be doing any rowing tomorrow… it depends on how I feel after having a root canal done by my favorite dentist.
Regarding the lately very popular topic of atrial fibrillation: It continued all last night and this morning but stopped in the afternoon, a little while after the 16 minutes of cold sunbathing.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters rowing at a steady pace averaging 2:33.5/500 meters. Heart rate was haywire during the session. The heart rate reading from the Garmin heart strap worn on the chest was erratic, not always displayed at all and was too low when it was being displayed. You can see its graph on the “RowPro Split and Stroke Charts,” below. The other heart strap gave a continuous reading which seemed to accurately display the much too high heart rate being experienced during today’s bout of atrial fibrillation. The other strap was a Scosche heart strap, worn on the arm. It’s graph is below also. It is the one that is red with a black background.
In addition to the rowing 10K there were six other sessions. They were shorter sessions on the SkiErg and rowing machine which served as warmup before the 10K. You can see the graphs and data for any of those by visiting this link to my online logbook, looking for log entries that were made on today’s date and clicking their corresponding “+” signs in the Action column.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s workouts consisted of two rowing sessions. A pair of rowing sessions, though of unequal time and distance. The first was an extremely slow, early morning 10,000 meter session done as a long warmup. The second was a moderately slow 30 minute session done online in the company of three other rowers. Only the 10K graph/data will be shown here but at this online logbook link you can see the other one if you look for the 30 minute session logged on today’s date and then click its little circle with a + sign inside it, in the column headed “Action”.
If the heart rate graph on the bottom-most screenshot looks weird, you are right. For the first 10 minutes or so, heart rate display was impossibly low on the RowPro display but normal on the wrist display. (RowPro display was from a heart strap on chest and wrist display was from a heart strap on the arm, as I’ve mentioned in a few other blog posts recently). After about 10 minutes, the RowPro heart rate display climbed up into normal range but when that happened, the wrist display, from the other heart strap on my arm, dropped to impossibly low readings. A few minutes later they both agreed with each other and they were in agreement for the remainder of the 10,000 meters. Go figure.
Happy rowing to you!