Continuing with the abbreviated approach started on September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Comments and questions welcome.
Happy rowing to you!
Continuing as I began doing on September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Comments and questions welcome.
Happy rowing to you!
Continuing as I began doing on September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Comments and questions welcome.
Happy rowing to you!
Continuing as begun on September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Comments and questions welcome.
Happy rowing to you!
Beginning September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Happy rowing to you!
Beginning September 28, 2019 and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Happy rowing to you!
Beginning today and unless it’s a day when I feel otherwise inclined there will only be a summary of the day’s workout activity.
Happy rowing to you!
Decidedly similar is today’s to yesterday’s metaphor. But today’s metaphorical temperature of 178 is probably accurate because it is within normal range and was appropriate to the effort at the moment. (See screenshot at bottom of today’s entry)
Similar to yesterday’s photo, the lovely photograph above was found by searching for the terms “scattered clouds desert”. It was classified as “free to share and use” but I might as well give credit to its source anyway. It was found on the blog of a girl who lives somewhere in a desert. (You can see her blog site by clicking the link in the previous sentence)
Today’s workout burned 780 Calories all totaled. It was done in two parts and consisted of a 10,000 meter rowing session at moderate pace followed by a 200 Calorie SkiErg session also at a moderate pace. The moderate pace of the SkiErg session was spiced up near the end with a couple intervals of 10 Calories each. The second of those intervals is what stimulated today’s high of 178. (As mentioned in the first paragraph, see screenshot at bottom of today’s entry)
Recovery was normal and there was no episode of Afib blemishing today’s workout time.
However, Afib did join me for breakfast and it is still keeping me company at the moment (See above screenshot). Unwelcome company, but I don’t know how to politely or otherwise persuade it to depart. 🙂
Happy rowing to you!
If blank spots on the RowPro heart graph were clouds and heart rate was temperature, today’s title might be appropriate. The high of 200 BPM shows as an isolated green dot and the words “200 BPM High” on the Apple Watch graph for today’s 10K rowing session. But RowPro and its heart rate record from a Polar H7 heart strap only show a high of 134 BPM recorded during today’s workouts.
I didn’t feel anything strange in the heart area today so I’m going to take that 200 BPM high reading with a grain of salt. But I won’t go so far as to eat that grain of salt -or swallow the 200 BPM high bit of data- because I’m still abstaining from adding any extra salt to what is eaten.
The 10K rowing session was today’s first of two workout sessions. It was followed by a 200 Calorie SkiErg session. Atrial fibrillation didn’t make an appearance during either workout session and hasn’t happened since it went away after 8 minutes 17 seconds of yesterday’s SkiErg session.
Happy rowing to you!
If you read yesterday’s entry you might remember that yesterday was a not fine day 9 which was plagued with atrial fibrillation. That Afib persisted the rest of yesterday evening, all night and was still present this morning when the workout session started.
For today’s first session I decided to start with rowing instead of the SkiErg. First, I did a 3 minute rowing warmup and didn’t even bother putting on the heart strap because I could feel the heart flip-flopping around. After that warmup I donned the heart strap for the main rowing session which was an online 6,000 meters with two other people. One of them was a guy in Spain and the other was a woman in England. My heart rate display was too erratic to display most of the time and when it did make its appearance its rate was quite a bit too high for the low effort level.
After the online 6K I did an offline 4K and the heart continued to be wacky with atrial fibrillation. But at least I did a tiny bit of sweating.
I had a brief inner debate as to whether to do anything on the SkiErg because atrial fibrillation really takes all the fun out of it. I decided to do a leisurely 200 Calories on the SkiErg because the lazy part of me was too lazy to work very hard at winning the debate against a SkiErg workout.
Though the SkiErg pace was very easy, heart rate started out too high and climbed even higher for a little over 8 minutes. At about 8 minutes and 17 seconds heart rate normalized. An exclamation mark is appropriate because I was surprised!
Here’s the part relating to the “Apple Watch” tag for this blog entry: I recently got a new Apple Watch which has the capability to take an ECG measurement. Before the Before today’s workouts I used its ECG feature to see if it would agree with what I felt in the heart area (that fluttery, flippy-flop feeling which is rather annoying) and it did. It announced that I was having Atrial Fibrillation. After the SkiErg session, I used it to take another ECG reading. This time it announced the result of “Sinus Rhythm,” which is the medical jargon for normal heart rhythm.
Perhaps the additional SkiErg workout was what was needed to straighten out the heartstrings.
Happy rowing to you!