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Oh Dear! No Workout Today!

Today there was no workout done. 🙁 All activity was merely walking to and from, to and fro in the course of doing things that had to be done. So I guess that would be RPE Level 1, tops.

The EliteHRV Morning Readiness score recommended taking it easy. I did more than that, it turned out, and there was no workout at all.

Last night’s sleep was a bit short again at 6 hours 10 minutes but other than that it was pretty good quality.

Happy rowing to you!

Only Time To SkiErg

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading.

Today’s sleep was good quality but a bit short again at 6 hours 35 minutes.

Today’s aerobic workout was limited to less than 40 minutes. It consisted of 2 sessions done on the SkiErg. First was a 5K at RPE Level 3. Next, was 5 minutes at RPE Level 5.

The 5K SkiErg session was done without connecting to RowPro so there are not the usual screen shots. Above is a summary of the session.

Summary of the 5 minute session on SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s main session was 5K done at an easy pace on the SkiErg, but slightly faster than yesterday’s 5K SkiErg pace. It was done mostly at RPE Level 2, except for slight pickup in pace during part of the last 500 meters. I’m trying to get a feel for the “alien” body involvement with the SkiErg. It is alien, compared to what I’ve become so used to on the rowing machine. I’m liking the SkiErg more and more, as a supplement to rowing – it’s nice to be using some upper body muscles that aren’t used when rowing.

A screen recording was made of the SkiErg 5K, for those of you who’d like to row-along or ski-along with it. It is at this link on YouTube: Indoor Workout 5K SkiErg Easy 01272019

Finish screen for the 5,000 meter SkiErg session.

Report for the 5,000 meter SkiErg session.

RowPro graphs for the 5,000 meter SkiErg session.

Concept 2 online logbook chartfor the 5,000 meter SkiErg session.

After the 5K SkiErg piece, this rowing session was done. It was done at RPE Level 2. Its distance was 8995 meters.

RowPro graphs for the rowing session of 8995 meters.

Happy rowing to you.

Racing My Past

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading was done at the right time, in the morning. It indicated caution, but I interpret that differently – I’ve been doing “deep breathing” sessions daily for a while, which is supposed to have many benefits, including an increase in HRV. So my opinion is that while my HRV is increasing in response to my new habit of the breathing sessions, EliteHRV needs to establish a new baseline, which may take a while.

Three interruptions of sleep last night but other than that it was good quality sleep and sufficient quantity at 7 hours 55 minutes.

Today’s main rowing session was 8995 meters with the goal of staying ahead of my most recent session of the same distance by about 10 meters and then going a faster pace a few hundred meters from the finish until calories burned added up to 545. Once reaching 545 calories, I eased up for the few remaining meters of warm down. It was done at RPE level 5. A screen recording was made for those who’d like to row along with it. The screen recording is on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 547 Calories 01262019

There was another 2K done very slowly on the rowing machine at RPE Level 1 and a few kilometers on the SkiErg at an easy effort level of RPE Level 2. All totaled, the distance on rower and SkiErg today came to 16177 meters.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8995 meters.

One of the sessions done on the SkiErg today was a very easy 5K. This is a screenshot of the Apple Watch heart rate graph for that particular session.

Listing of the four sessions done today.

Happy rowing to you!

Racing Father Time

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis was very low. But I had problems going to sleep and staying that way last night which resulted in staying in bed until a little past NOON(!) today. Therefore, the EliteHRV reading was several hours late. The readings are supposed to be taken about the same time every day. I decided to disregard today’s reading, since it was taken much later than it should have been.

Last night’s sleep was more than enough at 9hours 10minutes but it was poor quality due to an interruption of wide-awakeness and some Atrial fibrillation.

Today’s main rowing session was 30 minutes online. It wasn’t a race, because there was an agreement between the other guy and me that we’d aim for a pace of 2:10 and I would pace him. I enjoy pacing another rower. I also enjoy racing, which might be why thoughts, cognition and imaginations of racing came to mind during the session. In the midst of that cloud of race-themed neuron activity, entered the thought that both the other guy and me are each in a race against the fictional figure, “Father Time”. We row daily and do other workouts, to avoid being ravaged by some of the effects of passing time which can be mitigated or avoided through aerobic activity.

The 30 minute online session was done at RPE Level 5 and it’s available as a screen recording for those who’d like to row-along. It’s link is: Indoor Rowing Online 30 mins 01252018

Like last night’s sleep was bothered by atrial fibrillation, today’s 30 minute session was also visited by Afib. However it wasn’t the kind of Afib that changes into tachycardia – it just manifested itself with occasional feelings of fluttering and causing the heart strap to lose track of its count which caused the heart rate display to go blank. After about 15 minutes it settled down and went steady again.

The Afib did not reappear after that first 30 minute session. I did 8 more sessions after the 30 minute piece, some on the rowing machine and the rest of them on the SkiErg and there was no more Afib with any of those.

The RPE Levels for the sessions after the 30 minute session were: RPE Level 2 for the 2K warm down, RPE Level 3 for the 3,000 meter piece, RPE Level 10 for the 100 meter sprint and all the rest of them were done at RPE Level 4.

Finish screen for the main 30 minute session.

The atrial fibrillation was during the first part of the 30 minutes, where heart rate kept disappearing.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for the main 30 minute session.

Chart of the session following the 30 minutes – a 2K warm down with no Atrial fibrillation.

Chart of the 3rd of nine sessions today. This was a 3K and there was no atrial fibrillation.

This is a listing of all nine of today’s sessions on rowing machine and SkiErg. The one that was the most fun was also the shortest – the 100 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!

Deliberate Déjà Vu

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis said it was okay to do anything, so I didn’t have any excuse not to row.

Last night’s sleep was okay until just before 5 AM again, when I became wide awake after the second of 3 trips to the bathroom. I tried to just lay still and fall back to sleep but it didn’t work. So I went to another room and sat and did “HRV breathing” in “coherence” for about 20 minutes. At least there was no Afib like the night before. Felt relaxed enough after that to get a total of 7 hours 55 minutes of actual sleep.

Today’s main workout was the same distance as yesterday’s main session and it was done to the accompaniment of a pace boat that duplicated yesterday’s rowing. My goal was to stay about 10 meters ahead of yesterday’s rowing, throughout the distance. Near the finish, I picked up the pace a bit more to make sure that today’s session was a few calories more than yesterday’s. The estimated level of exertion for today’s main session was RPE Level 5.

A screen recording was made for those of you who’d like to row-along. It is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 545 Calories 01242019

In addition to the rowing session, I also used the SkiErg, to burn almost another 300 calories. There will be no screen shots relating to the SkiErg in this post.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s main session

Happy rowing to you!

Afib Truly Woke Me

This is a graph of this morning’s heart rate samples, taken every few minutes by the Apple Watch. You can see that at about 5 AM heart rate spiked a bit and stayed elevated from 5 AM until this screenshot was taken at about 9 AM. HR returned to normal sometime before noon.

There is no HRV analysis reading for this morning because I was having a bit of Afib at the time the HRV reading should have been taken. Afib during an HRV reading skews the reading and basically makes it worthless. So the EliteHRV app was skipped for today and instead I savored and drank black coffee.

The Afib started early this morning after I woke for a bathroom call at about 0500 and returned to bed. So… rather than lay awake, I got up. Sleep had been good until then but total sleep was a little short, at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Sleep was good and without interruptions from about 11 PM to 5 AM.

I felt okay, so I assumed the HRV reading would have been a “GO” for doing any workout. The goal for today’s aerobic activity was to burn 800 calories. The goal was reached with 3 sessions on the SkiErg and one on the rowing machine.

From first to last they were (1st): A 99 calorie warmup on SkiErg at RPE Level 3, (2nd): 1K on SkiErg at RPE Level 5 (3rd): 2K on SkiErg at RPE Level 6, (4th) 540 calories in 8,995 meters on rowing machine at RPE Level 5.

A screen recording for those who’d like to row-along was made of the rowing session and it is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 540 Calories 01232019

Summary data and chart for the SkiErg warmup.

Summary data and chart for the 1,000 meter session on SkiErg

Summary data and chart for 2,000 meter session on SkiErg

Finish screen for 540 Calorie session on rowing machine.

Report for main calorie session on rowing machine.

RowPro graphs for main calorie session on rowing machine.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for main calorie session on rowing machine.

Happy rowing to you!

Tingly All Over

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading didn’t seem to have been dampened at all by yesterday’s workout and it even improved over yesterday’s.

Last night’s sleep was good, though a little short at 6 hours 35 minutes and with two brief interruptions.

After today’s aerobic workouts I felt tingly, all over. It’s a good feeling.

Today’s rowing was a preset distance of 13,400 meters. That distance was chosen based on the distance rowed yesterday to reach 800 calories. That was the main workout and it was done at RPE Level 6. It was followed by another attempt at doing a 500 meter sprint on the SkiErg, which was done at RPE Level 10. Lastly there was a 2 minute warmdown at RPE Level 1.

Screen recordings of each were made for those who’d like to row or SkiErg-along with either of them. The 13,400 meter indoor row is at this link:Indoor Rowing 13400 meters 01222019 and the 500 meter SkiErg sprint is at this link: Indoor Skiing 500 meters 01222019

Finish screen – today’s 13,400 meter session.

RowPro graphs- today’s 13,400 meter session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart- today’s 13,400 meter session.

Finish screen-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Report-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

RowPro graphs-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Concept 2 online logbook chart-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!

800 Calories Was Just Dandy

Today’s EliteHRV morning readiness analysis was good again.

Last night’s sleep was a little short at 6 hours 10 minutes, but it was good sleep with no insomnia interruption.

Today’s main session was rowing until arriving at a total of 800 calories, done at RPE level 7. The main session is available as a screen recording for those who’d like to row-along. It’s link on YouTube is: Indoor Rowing 800 Calories 01212019

The Concept 2 rowing machine is an ergometer and it accurately measures work. It registered 800 calories for the main rowing session today, but the **Apple Watch**, which independently logged the workout as a rowing session, shows quite a few less calories than the Concept 2 ergometer. So don’t rely on the Apple Watch calorie count if you do a rowing workout.

Today’s second of three sessions was another attempt on the SkiErg to do a one minute sprint. The sprint was done at RPE level 9 and it was a better result than yesterday’s because I didn’t start out too fast and was able to maintain the pace for the entire minute. The third and last session today was going to be another attempt at a 500 meter sprint on the SkiErg, but I started out too fast or didn’t have a suitable drag factor setting (or perhaps I was too tired??), so I let that “sprint” fade into a warm down and the resulting RPE for the 500 meters was Level 4.

Report for 800 calorie rowing at RPE level 7.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for 800 calorie rowing.

There is no report or graph for the 100 meter sprint on SkiErg because it wasn’t done with RowPro but above is a screenshot of the summary data.

The final session for the day was 500 meters on the SkiErg which started out as an attempt to improve the previous, ranked result. But I started out too fast to maintain it so let it fade into a warm down. Heart rate fade lagged behind the fade of effort level.

Happy rowing to you.

1,153 Assorted Calories

Today’s HRV Morning Readiness analysis was good, so rowing was okay to do. Of course, it has been good for several days WITHOUT having done any rowing on those days… but today some rowing was actually done!

Today’s main workout was an aerobic row of 19,384 meters. It was at RPE level 2. It was followed by a first time attempt at a one minute sprint on the SkiErg, at what started out at RPE level 10 and faded. That was followed by 500 meters on the SkiErg at RPE level 5, to serve as a warm down for a warm down. Lastly, there was a SkiErg final warm down of about two minutes at RPE level 1.

A screen recording was made of the main aerobic rowing session and I will post the live link here: Indoor Rowing 1100 calories 01202019