Smooth Going With Heart Strap And What It Monitors

Today’s distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 18th by training partner DN. There was a 750 meter warmup but it is not on the screen recording.

Heart strap was thoroughly soaked with water before applying and as the graphs show, everything worked well.

Screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 4046 meters 06202018

Happy rowing to you.

Thoroughly Wet This Time

To avoid yesterday’s problem of delayed and then intermittent heart rate display, I took a few extra seconds to thoroughly soak and massage water into the conductive pads on the heart strap.  It worked – heart rate was displayed from the beginning and throughout.

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the distance rowed on June 17th by a training partner, DN.  It was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

Screen recording will be at this link after it finishes uploading: Indoor Rowing 4010 meters 06192018

Happy rowing to you.

Insufficient Moistening

Today’s session distance was chosen to match the June 16th distance rowed by training partner DN. In addition, it was preceded by a 750 meter warmup.

The heart strap wasn’t wet enough when the rowing started, so it didn’t transmit the heart rate signal for a while. After I rowed for a few minutes and started to perspire, that boosted the moisture enough to conduct the electric signal for heart rate to be displayed.

Today’s screen recording is at this link: Indoor Rowing 3554 meters 06182018

Happy rowing to you.

An Abundant Number

Lately, I’ve been using the distance or time rowed by one of my training partners as inspiration for the session.  Today was another of those, and I chose to row 7,812 meters because it was the total distance rowed by training partner “FR” on June 13th.

One of the properties of the number 7812 is that it is an abundant number, thus today’s title. Because 7812 is an abundant number, there was an abundance of integers, equal to or less than 30, from which I could choose to have RowPro 5 for the Mac divide the distance into equal splits.

I chose 28 splits and counted down from 28 to 1, as each split was rowed during the session.  I counted out loud, but so quietly that it is probably not audible on the screen recording.

The screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 7812 meters 06162018

Happy rowing to you.

2182 Plus A Few For Warmup

Today’s distance was chosen to match the distance of training partner FR which he rowed on June 11th. A 750 meter warmup was done first.

Today’s rowing session was totally free of “Nuisance Complications” as had been experienced during all of yesterday’s session.

Screen recording for today is at: Indoor Rowing 2182 meters 06142018

Happy rowing to you.

2695 Meters With Nuisance Complications

Today’s main rowing was 2,695 meters, chosen because it matched the distance rowed by training partner DN on June 11th.  There was also a 750 meter warmup beforehand.

The “nuisance complications” were irregular heartbeat, which was so irregular that it wasn’t displayed most of the time.  When it was displayed, it was about 30% to 50% too high – way, way too high for the brief time and effort being expended.

Its back to normal now, but there’s no more rowing until tomorrow.

A screen recording of the session is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 2695 meters 06132018

Happy rowing to you.