Category: Easy Workout

Quick Heart Rate Recovery Is Good.

Today’s choice of rowing session distance was arrived at by summing up the distances rowed by one of my Concept 2 online logbook “training partners” which she rowed for the previous two days.

I’m currently letting her be my inspiration to row, by using something involving times or distance of her recent rowing sessions.

The distance amounted to 5,226 meters.  I started out at the easiest pace of the session and made the pace slightly less easy as the session progressed.  All-in-all, it was an easy session from start to finish and heart rate rapidly recovered during the two minutes immediately after the 5,226 meters were completed.

The above to charts show the displays of data logged by an Apple Watch for today’s rowing workout. The graph on the left is of the 5,226 meter session and the graph on the right is for the two minute period immediately following the workout. It shows the rate of HR recovery.

The session was divided into 26 consecutive splits and a screen recording was made, which is available for row-along at this link: Indoor Rowing 5226 meters 06062018

Happy rowing to you.

A Prime Number Training Partner

Today’s distance was chosen because it was the distance rowed yesterday by one of my training partners, who rowed it while she had RowPro 5 for the Mac in “just row” mode.

3023 meters happens to be a prime number so if you have read anything I said about RowPro 5 for the Mac having a bug show up if it tries to split a distance into unequal splits, you might have guessed why I did it all in one split.

A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 3023 meters 06052018

Happy rowing to you.

6,728 Of Training-Partner-Derived Meters

Today’s session distance was chosen by using the recent total session rowing time of a training partner, 31 minutes 19.9 seconds and dividing that time by the average pace per 500 meters of my easiest recent rowing session, 2 minutes 19.7 seconds.  The quotient was then multiplied by 500 meters, to get 6,728 meters which is the distance used for today’s session.

I started out feeling rather sleepy and lazy.  As the meters counted down, I felt a bit more energetic and used a little more effort.

A screen recording is at: Indoor Rowing 6728 meters 06012018

Happy rowing to you.

Fun Is Relative And In Inverse Proportion To Caffeine Intake

Today’s rowing session was fun, compared to yesterday’s session which was not fun.  Fun is always relatively speaking, of course, compared to doing something else or doing nothing at all.

Yesterday’s session was not fun, because heart rate yesterday was too irregular for the heart strap to display HR during the entire session.

Looking back, I think it may have been because of too much real coffee.  More specifically:  I’ve recently been having a mix of real (caffeinated) coffee and decaf every morning, which amounts to the caffeine of one or two cups of coffee.  But on the day before yesterday, I had 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee, which was about 300% more than usual.

I should have learned this lesson already, because it has happened before, as I have mentioned, for example, in the rowing session of July 23, 2017 whose corresponding blog post was appropriately titled Too Much Coffee Today.

The difference between July 23, 2017 and yesterday’s similar problem was that on that day in 2017, I drank 5 or 6 cups of caffeinated coffee immediately before rowing the same day.

But yesterday, I drank the 6 cups of caffeinated coffee late in the morning the day before.  I would have thought it would have worn off overnight, but I guess it lingers quite a while as far as the heart is concerned.

Today’s heart rate and behavior was normal, like yesterday’s “normal” amount of caffeine (my usual recent “normal” is: 1 cup of coffee mixed with 5 cups of decaf).

The session distance was a prime number so the session was not split today.

A screen recording of today’s session for row-along is at: Indoor Rowing 4027 prime meters 05312018

Happy rowing to you.