Month: February 2020

Sunny and Well-Warmed

This is a photo of the Arizona sun high in the blue sky. Don’t stare at it.

Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters rowing at a steady pace averaging 2:33.6/500 meters. It was preceded by a SkiErg warmup of 200 Calories and five short, gradually increasing rowing warmups. Only the 10K is shown here. Everything else can be examined via this link to my online logbook by looking for and finding log entries made on today’s date.

Since atrial fibrillation vanished yesterday after I spent 17 minutes sunbathing, I used the same approach today: Standing shirtless in direct sunlight for 16 minutes. That was split up into 8 minutes on the chest and 8 minutes on the back. Taking some sunshine was inspired by some of what I heard in a TED Talk by a doctor (MD type) who does research and controlled studies relating to sunlight and the human skin. I will try to “embed” that TED Talk video below this paragraph.

A lot of sunlight is bad but too little sunlight can be just as bad although in other ways. A little bit of sunlight is very good.

I’m happy to report that there was no atrial fibrillation today either during the rowing or afterwards.

Finish screen view for today’s 10K rowing
Report for today’s 10K rowing
Graphs for today’s 10K rowing
Listing of the five rowing warmup sessions that immediately preceded today’s 10K.

Happy rowing to you!

Eight Workout Sessions Today

Ephemeral, ethereal light of a sunset on the Catalina mountains.

Though it has nothing to do with indoor rowing, today’s main workout was done as the sun was setting on the Catalina Mountains. The session was 10K rowing done at steady pace averaging 2:33.7/500 meters. There were also 7 shorter sessions done before today’s 10K. Their graphs and data can all be viewed at this online logbook link by looking for the entries with today’s date.

I had been having atrial fibrillation continuously for the past five days but it cleared up and heart rate returned to normal today after about 40 minutes of warmup on both SkiErg and rowing machine. There has been no atrial fibrillation since the 10,000 meter rowing session was done today.

Today was warm and brightly sunny. Before doing any of the workouts, I spent 17 minutes outdoors, shirtless, with maximum exposure to direct sunlight on front and back. A limited amount of sunlight is supposed to be beneficial to the heart. Perhaps that’s what made the difference and helped the AF to go away?

Finish screen view for today’s 10K rowing.
Report for today’s 10K.
Graphs for today’s 10K. Although there was no ECG reading of atrial fibrillation just before the 10K started, it took a few minutes for the signal from the Garmin heart strap to look normal.
Graph of heart rate recovery after finish of 10K rowing session. Looks good.

Happy rowing to you.