A Sixteen Year Old Heart Rate

Finish screen view for today’s moderate 500 meter sprint. Heart rate was 196 at finish but it got a bit higher earlier in the 500 meters (see one of the screenshots below).

Are you familiar with the formula for determining your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220? The formula may be written: 220 – AGE = HRmax.

If you know a person’s maximum heart rate, you can thereby deduce the person’s age by rearranging the formula as: 220 – HRmax = AGE.

Today in one of the workout sessions my heart rate maxed out at 204, therefore today it was acting very juvenile. To be precise, it was acting 220-204= sixteen years old. I was so focused on the effort during that 2,000 meter SkiErg piece, that I didn’t notice how high my teeny-bopper heart rate reached until afterwards. After uploading the results, I looked at the graphs closely, the way the Concept 2 online logbook lets you do if you use their app (ErgData) and it if it was wirelessly connected to the SkiErg monitor during the session.

Heart was in the range of a 16-year-old’s and it also seemed interested in hip-hop dance moves of some sort.

One session was recorded and posted on YouTube, the 500 meter rowing sprint. It can be found at this link: Indoor Rowing 500 meters in 1 minute 58 seconds 07232019

In total there were five sessions today, which were in this chronological order, one right after the other. A summary list of the workouts is below, (but I will only include data/graph screenshots for three of them):

  1. A brief warmup on SkiErg
  2. An attempt at a 2,000 meter sprint on SkiErg
  3. A brief SkiErg warm down
  4. A 500 meter moderate rowing sprint and
  5. A 2000 meter supplemental warm down.
Summary list of today’s 5 workouts, with chronological order from first to fifth displayed on left.
Report for today’s 500 meter rowing at a moderate sprint effort.
Chart of the moderate-effort 500 meter rowing sprint.
Close up of area on 500 meter rowing chart where heart rate reached 204.
Chart and data for 2,000 meter SkiErg sprint. The place where my effort/pace suddenly drops was after about 1,500 meters when I started feeling a bit too tired. I had been trying to do it in a time that would have placed me second in the current world rankings for my age bracket. After I gave up and was breathing easier, I
Close up of area on SkiErg 2000 meter chart where heart rate reached 200.
I was aiming for second-place in the 70-79 year-old current SkiErg world rankings, but had to settle for 3rd.
Report for final session today, a very easy 2,000 meter warm down.
Graphs for today’s 2000 meter rowing warm down. Heart rate was mostly absent from the display because it was doing some kind of a hip-hop dance and the heart strap transmitter had a hard time counting the beat.

Happy rowing to you!