Finish screen for today’s intervals pyramid session.
Today the heart and everything else in the propulsion system cooperated and the workouts happened as planned. The main workout was a set of pyramid intervals of 2-3-4-3-2 minutes within a single 30 minute session.
A screen recording was made of that session, for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. That screen recording is available on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 30 minute pyramid 05082019
After the 30 minutes of rowing, there was a 135 calorie SkiErg session.
Report for today’s intervals pyramid session.
Graphs for today’s intervals pyramid session.
Chart and some data for today’s 135 calorie SkiErg session.
Today’s main session was anticipated as being a lot of fun. It was to be a short but lively set of three 750 meter intervals, with each interval followed by one minute of rest. But irregular heart rate bungled its way onto the scene again, after the first interval, so I had to slow down and take it easy for the rest of the session.
A screen recording was made of the rowing session but I decided not to upload it, since it was not done the way intervals should be done.
Afterwards, I did another work/rest SkiErg session, for 134 Calories.
Finish screen after today’s ho-hum intervals session.
Report for today’s ho-hum intervals session.
RowPro graph for today’s ho-hum intervals session.
Chart and some data for today’s 134 calorie skierg session.
Graph of the 5K shows normal heart rate vs pace for first 1,000 meters. Remainder of session had too high and irregular heart rate.
Today’s main workout started out well enough but HR acted up and the plan had to be abandoned. It was a 5K rowing session and the plan was to row the first 1,000 meters at 22 SPM, the second 1K at 26, the third at 22 etc. But after the first 1,000 meters, heart rate jumped to high and stayed too high no matter how much I slowed the pace. I stopped about midway, went into another room to get a drink of water and take an aspirin, but HR stayed too high.
After the 5K was done, I took a little break before doing the 1K warm down and HR returned to normal for the warm down.
After the rowing, I did 133 Calories of alternating work/rest on the SkiErg.
A honeybee hovering in an interval of clarity over a bird of paradise flower.
Today’s workout time was blessed with clarity. That is, there was no confusion of the heart as happened yesterday.
The main session was on the rowing machine. It was a combination of 2,000 meter warmup, three intervals of 750 meters each with 3 minutes active rest after each interval and a 1,000 meter warm down.
After the rowing workout, 132 Calories was burned on the SkiErg.
The rowing intervals session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. The video is located at this link: Indoor Rowing 3X750 meters Rest 3 minutes 05052019
The heart rate variability analysis by EliteHRV this morning was a green light. Of course, yesterday’s was also a green light… so I took today’s Morning Readiness reading with a proverbial grain of salt.
Finish screen view immediately after finishing the three 750 meter intervals.
RowPro report for the three 750 meter intervals.
RowPro graph for the three 750 meter intervals.
Chart and data for today’s 132 Calorie SkiErg session.
Today’s main rowing session was a series of twenty intervals of 20 seconds, with 4o seconds of rest after each. After completing 7 or 8 of the intervals, heart rate got a bit confused. At the very end of the session, heart rate got very confused and went up when effort went down. It seemed logical to slow down when heart rate was acting that way, so the intervals weren’t as vigorous as hoped.
You can see the oddest behavior of heart rate right near the end. Heart rate should have decreased when effort decreased, but instead it made a new high for the session.
The report for today’s rowing session is rather long, with a total of 40 splits for the 20 work intervals plus 20 rest intervals.
RowPro graph for today’s interval series.
Chart and data for the 131 Calorie SkiErg session.
Need a polynomial function solution? Get cranking!
A computer like the one in the photo above might give you a good workout, if you had a lot of polynomial functions to solve. (The above image was found in a Wikipedia article titled: Computing). But I think I will keep my Mac as main computer and use the Concept 2 ergs for my main calorie burning, heart-rate elevating workouts.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app is as green as a green light can get.
Today I decided to get an early start on making a blog entry, so the paragraph, title and two above images are being posted before I’ve done any workout. There will be an update later today, after the workout(s) are completed.
At the moment, the plan is to do a 30 minute series of intervals on the rowing machine and about 130 calories on the SkiErg.
It is now later in the day and some time was spent on both rowing machine and SkiErg. The main session was the rowing, which was six sets of 2 minute work/1 minute rest intervals. After that, I did a 30 second sprint on the SkiErg and then a 130 Calorie set of work/rest intervals on the SkiErg.
This image was found when I searched using the words “a day away”
Today was a day away from any indoor rowing or other workout activity.
The above image was found on a website page titled “Stronger than death”-Happy Easter . It isn’t related to anything in particular regarding today’s blog entry and I only glanced at the website without reading the article. So I don’t know if the article or its website is “good,” “bad” or indifferent but the picture got my attention as being a thought-inspiring one and so the link to the webpage where it was found is provided above.
This morning’s analysis of heart rate variability gave a green light for working out, but other activities crowded out the opportunity today.
Gazing at daydreams and passing thoughts while sitting and thinking. No matter how old or how young you are, this is something everybody spends some time doing.
While I was changing from rowing clothes back into jeans and t-shirt, my better half walked into the room and remarked, “You worked out for a long time! Are you making up for some missed workouts?” I gazed at her and gathered my thoughts for a moment before responding, “No. It wasn’t a long workout, but I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking.”
Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability analysis wasn’t quite low enough to give me a reason for a day off.
Today’s rowing workout was 5,000 meters rowing at specific target stroke rates for each of the five 1K splits. The rating targets were 26-24-22- 24-26 Strokes Per Minute. It took a lot of mental focus. I had a dreamy attitude but the wandering thoughts and daydreaming were done before and after the 5K with its targeted strokes-per-minute for each 1K split.
After the rowing, I did a 129 Calorie session on the SkiErg, arranged in alternating splits of 10 calories work/10 calories rest.
Finish screen for today’s 5K piece.
Report for today’s 5K piece. Notice the circled column headed “Avg SPM”. The targets were met for each split except for the 4th split, which was too high at 25 instead of the target of 24 SPM.
RowPro graphsfor today’s 5K piece.
Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s 5K piece.
Chart and data for today’s 129 calories on the SkiErg.
Cactus blossoms were glowing with sunlight this morning.
There were two workouts today. They were both interval sessions. One on the rowing machine and the other on the SkiErg. Afterwards, and now while this is being typed, I feel like I’m tingling all over with the afterglow of the intervals.
Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability analysis gave permission for any level of effort.
Today’s rowing workout was selected from Concept 2’s suggestions for “workout of the day”. It was called “2 x 10 min short intervals” and the instructive description was: “Pre-set the monitor for a work time of 10:00 and a rest time of 4:00. Each interval alternate between 40 seconds fast rowing and 20 seconds easy rowing. During the rest time continue rowing at light pressure.”
The above photo is a display of one result of Einstein’s formulation of the Theory of Relativity… or his contributions to quantum physics… or both. At any rate, it is showing some of the effects of converting the mass of a few ounces of uranium into energy.
After 8 days without working out, today I finally managed to do a workout on both the rowing machine and SkiErg. There was no earth-shaking result, but it seemed like there was a huge amount of some kind of inertia to overcome when I first started pulling the handle on the rowing machine. The result of today’s workout was to convert about 2 1/2 ounces of my body’s mass into a modest 552 calories of kinetic energy. There was additional energy conversion resulting in heat and myriads of other changes in the body, but those were not measured by the ergometers.
The two ergometers, rowing machine and SkiErg, only measured the kinetic energy required to operate them and that totaled to about 552 Calories. *
Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app gave a green light for doing a workout.
Today’s workout was once again strictly aerobic. I need to start incorporating resistance/anabolic activity into a few days of each week’s workouts. How do I cultivate that as a habit?
The above question will have to remain unanswered for the moment. Screenshots of today’s workout reports are below. They were a series of 4 minute hard/3 minute easy rowing intervals followed by a series of 10 Calories hard/10 Calories easy cross-country SkiErg intervals:
Finish screen for the rowing intervals.
Report for the rowing intervals.
Graphs for the rowing intervals.
Graphs and data for the SkiErg intervals.
Happy rowing to you!
*If you are a physicist and want to get technical, it totaled to 552 kilo calories.
