There were several erg workouts today in order to reach the A1C goal of increasing daily aerobic activity.
Today’s workout session for screen recording and for fun was a 500 meter sprint. It was done at a pace that would improve my ranking slightly for this season.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
Today’s heart behavior and rowing experience was better than yesterday’s.
Yesterday’s session. Same time, sloppier heart behavior and fewer calories because I had to row slower yesterday to keep HR from going too high.
There were several erg workouts today in order to reach today’s total activity calories goal.
As the title says, this screen recording is of an online 30 minute rowing session. There were several others in the session. The others rowed at a faster and more constant pace. I rowed intervals, alternating one minute intervals with one minute active rests. Today’s 30 minute session screen recording included the following 10 minute warm down.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
It’s been a while – about eleven days- since I’ve blogged, but most of those blogless days have included workouts on the ergs.
Today’s erg workouts were several. All were offline except for a 30 minute rowing piece which was online.
This 30 minutes was online with a group of others. If you are feeling high energy, keep pace with one of the others. If you are feeling more like a tortoise today, keep pace with me. Have fun rowing along with the screen recording.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
Above is a list of what’s been done so far today. I seem to be getting tired of doing 20Km/day already. Or the feeling of “tired” might be related to the four hour power failure that happened last night. It cost me a couple hours of sleep, so it’s logical that it may be the significant factor.
During last night’s power failure we resorted to an oil lamp for part of the time. It looks pretty and old-fashioned, but I’d rather have electricity etc.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
Today’s erg workouts are listed above. They totaled 22,407 meters distance and 2 hours 8 minutes 25 seconds total time.
Yesterday I “talked a lot” in this blog and today is the other end of the talkative spectrum.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
Though this photo doesn’t do it justice, today’s sunrise with clouds captured my fascinated attention.
Today started as usual with a few minutes outside early in the morning.
For anyone of the few of you who have been following this blog, you will notice that as of yesterday, my daily workout time is increased over what it had been from May 1 of this year until yesterday.
The reason for the increase in daily workout time is a consequence of my most recent blood test results and visit with my doctor. She said my A1C reading has gone up. I’ve been trying to keep it down and so I was puzzled. I told her that I had “cut back” on daily aerobic exercise because “I got tired of doing 20,000 meters every day” and I asked her if she thought that cutting back on daily aerobic exercise might be a significant factor. She said yes. We didn’t discuss it any further during that visit but I resolved to return to what I’d had as a vague goal before May 1st, which had been to burn at least about 1,300 activity Calories daily, according to the activity app on my Apple Watch.
After the doctor visit, I received a written summary and recommendations from the doctor which included that in reference to aerobic exercise I should do at least 150 minutes weekly.
It might have been good if the doctor and I had talked about it a little more, because what I had “cut back” to was about 250 minutes per week, 100 minutes per week more than she recommended. But I thought about it and decided that the important thing was that in her expert medical opinion, the reduction in weekly aerobic activity could very well be a significant if not THE major factor in the rise of A1C level.
So I’m increasing it with the following approach: to do daily aerobic activity as soon as possible each day with the goal of bringing activity Calories up to 1,300 with that aerobic activity, before going on to other things.
So that is what I did yesterday and today. Today, it amounted to a little more than 2 hours and 20 minutes of time on the ergs and a total of about 22,374 meters. It took a long time because average pace was slow. But it wasn’t boring, because I alternated every 10 Calories between slower and faster. Believe it or not, that made it interesting enough to do the entire workout without music, videos, etc. Thoughts were all over the place and a good share of thoughts were on the goodness and awesomeness of God, but in between whatever the non-workout related thoughts were, it was interesting to focus on the effort level, strokes, split time, etc with each alternating slow or faster 10 Calories interval.
At this rate, I’ll be doing about 15 hours instead of merely 150 minutes of weekly aerobic activity. But 15 hours will be in the ballpark of what I used to do… a long time ago in what seems like a distant galaxy…
There were two sessions today for the total workout and there is no screen recording for either one. But there are screen shots. And for anyone interested there are “live” (interactive) charts available, as usual, at the online logbook link further down this page.
If you look closely you may notice some dust on the originally pristine Concept2 SkiErg. Arizona and our old house are a dusty place. It is mostly bare, sandy ground outside too and that is where the title for this blog post came from… from (outside) dust to (inside) dust. The above photo was taken “on the starting blocks” of today’s workout, just before starting the SkiErg session.
Screenshot of the SkiErg session data.
Screenshot of the rowing machine session data.
Though not all workout sessions for the day are always or even usually mentioned in the blog, data for any workout sessions for any day can be seen in detail via this: link to the online logbook. To view a session’s data and interactive graph click the “+” sign in “Action” column for that session.
