Daily inclusion of intervals makes the 10K a lot more fun. Moderation in intervals seems to be a necessity for me, if I’m going to be doing them daily.
This session was screen-recorded for those who want to row-along. It is being uploaded to this link, where it will be available later today: Indoor Rowing with 4 moderate intervals 11152018
Happy rowing to you.
The plan today was to NOT do any HIIT during this 10K because of the suspicion that yesterday’s heart issues may have been caused by doing too much HIIT for several days in a row prior to yesterday. Hope realized and heart behaved normally today.
Of course, the heart problems yesterday could have been triggered by many other things. Including sleep problems. At about 4:15 this morning, after becoming wide awake following a trip to the bathroom, I found myself staring at the glowing clock faces as shown in the photo below.
There are actually three clock faces, as you can see in the photo below this paragraph. But only two of them are visible in the darkness before sunrise.
I managed to go back to sleep and get another hour’s worth of sleep before the alarm woke me at 06:00. A graph of last night’s sleep is below this paragraph.
A screen recording was made of today’s rowing and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Hope Realized 11142018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was supposed to be an all-in-one 10K with the first 15 minutes as warm up, then 4×4 minute R3 minute intervals. But the heart acted up and slowed everything down… except for heart rate which was impressively high, at one point reaching 217 BPM.
A screen recording was made and will eventually be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K With Paroxysmal Heart 11132018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K that started out for 15 minutes easy as warm up. After the first 15 minutes, four sets of 4 min R 3 min intervals were done.
I don’t know what is the best effort level for the intervals. The first 4 minute interval felt a bit too hard, so I did the next ones at a slower pace. The important thing was to work hard enough during the intervals to both elevate heart rate and cause myself to breathe hard, with some anaerobic effort.
The session was recorded and will be available at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with 4 Intervals 11122018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was similar to yesterday’s but today I forgot to start the screen recording until after the online session began.
During the 10K, I rowed the first 3K easy and then did ten pairs of 20 second intervals with 2 minutes recovery, to keep the mitochondria happy.
The screen recording for row-along is here: Indoor Rowing online late start recording 11112018
Happy rowing to you.
The plan for today’s rowing session was influenced by an article I read on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and also by a short (12 minute) talk and explanation by a medical doctor regarding some of the benefits of HIIT inclusion in daily workouts. (That 12 minute talk is on YouTube at this link: HIIT: How to Regrow Your Mitochondria? Really?- Ford Brewer MD MPH )
Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: Indoor Rowing HIIT within online 10K 11102018
After the screen recording starts and before the actual online rowing session begins, I do a little talking. I talk slowly and pause a few times while talking. I was rather sleepy 😴 and the pauses were made when I was yawning with sleepiness…
The session today was 10K done online in the virtual company of a few other rowers in the US and Europe. I rowed easy for about the first 15 minutes as a warmup. Then, I started an interval timer which alternated between beeping after two minutes and then beeping next, after 20 seconds. During the 20 second timer period, I would row about as fast as I possibly could. After each 20 second “high intensity” interval, I would row easy for two minutes. I did ten of those 20 second hard/2 minute easy intervals.
My mitochondria feel better already (see below)
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was done ASAP in the morning, before going to vote on this Election Day 2018. The rowing session was 10,000 meters with target heart rate zone. The boundaries for the target zone were “zones one and two, of five heart rate zones” which for me were 138 and 150 BPM.
This earlier blog post shows the zones which are referred to in the previous paragraph: Reaching For The Sweet Spot With A Steady Heart
The approach to entering the target zone was a gradual one.
A screen recording of the session is available for rowing-along-with at the following link: Indoor Rowing Before Voting 11062018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was online with a rower who was in England and another who was in Switzerland. The total distance was 10,000 meters and we each rowed at different paces. There was no competition nor pacing of each other during the session, but the virtual company of two other rowers was nonetheless a great incentive to keep rowing.
A screen recording was made for rowing-along-with. It is being uploaded now and it will be active at the following link: Indoor Rowing 10K Online with England and Switzerland 11042018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was 10K done online with about a dozen others. Not all of them showed up and not all of them kept connected to the server through the entire 10K, but most of them finished okay. After the 10K, there was a 10 minute warm down.
The entire session including warm down was screen-recorded and is on YouTube for row-along at: Indoor Rowing Online 10K and warmdown 11032018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K done with a HR target zone of 138-150. Instead of pushing to get HR immediately into the zone at the beginning, I rowed at what used to be an easy pace, according to my own subjective perceived effort. It felt harder today, so this session is categorized as Medium Workout.
For those who would like to row-along with this session, a screen recording is now uploading and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Drifting Into Heart Zone 11012018
Happy rowing to you.