Category: Easy Workout

Today’s indoor rowing was a total of 12,000 meters, split into a 10K session and a 2K ultra-slow warm down. During the first half of the 10K, I rowed slowly as a warmup.  During the warmup, I watched miscellaneous videos related to rowing on the water.  The highlight of those videos was the one for which you see a screenshot, above, of a coxswain “surfing” while her crew of 8 rowers propels the boat at a moderate effort.  The crew cheers her, when she manages to stand up and “surf” while maintaining her balance, which is no easy task with the alternating applications of sudden accelerating power when the crew pulls the oars and the sudden deceleration and “glide” as the crew recovers and re-positions for the next stroke.

The second half of today’s 10K was a series of intervals, while watching the same video as yesterday’s session (HOCR Power Workout).

The final 2,000 meters was an ultra-slow-and-easy warm down.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s rowing session followed the idea that was mentioned in yesterday’s blog article. I rowed along with the entire youtube video titled HOCR Power Workout.

Before starting the video, I rowed for about 15 minutes as a warmup.

I didn’t push too hard during the intervals, but hard enough to have some fun.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s rowing session started out with me in a pensive mood, after having returned from a bi-annual doctor visit.  The rowing piece chosen was 10,000 meters which I opted to do offline because I was fairly certain that my average pace would be far too slow for any of my most usual online companions.

Starting out, I decided to watch some video documentaries on youtube.  I had to row very slow, to be able to give attention to what was being said and to be able to hear it clearly.

After about 5,000 meters of that, I switched to a rowing video on youtube which was about 28 minutes in duration and which included several intervals of 30 seconds and 60 seconds duration.  That was quite enjoyable, so the Idea For Tomorrow’s Rowing Session is to do 10,000 meters while watching that same video and use whatever distance remains of the 10K after the 28 minute video is finished, for a warm down. If that is done tomorrow, the blog post will include a screen shot of the video and a link to it, for anyone else who wants to try rowing with it.

It has a sound track with a musical rhythm that works well with its alternating scenes of relatively slow rowing and sprint intervals.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s main indoor rowing was 4,829 meters, which is about three miles.  It was done while watching a youtube video of someone rowing the HOCR 2014 race.  I started when he started and finished when he finished.  Of course, I didn’t have to steer a boar or avoid colliding with other boats, which are some of the things he had to contend with.

The main session was followed by a few minutes of easy rowing in “just row” mode.

Happy rowing to you.

Time was slippery and elusive and it got away from me today, so instead of rowing the usual 10 or more, I only rowed 5K.

Because of the heart problem recently, I restrained myself from jumping in and doing any fast rowing.  Not right away at least.  Instead, I started out with some featherweight rowing at about 60 Watts and then tried to gradually increase the pressure with each split.  The splits for this session were 250 meters.

So the effort was sort of like climbing a hill that got steeper, every 250 meters.  By the 16th split, I had worked up to about 300 Watts and kept it at about 300 Watts for that entire split, then used the last four splits, the final 1,000 meters, to warm down gradually so as to not set off any heartquakes in that persnickety heart.

Happy and persnicketiness-free rowing to you.

It seems like this has happened several times before.  But this one was the worst so far.  From the middle of yesterday’s rowing session until shortly after the beginning of today’s rowing session, heart rate was too high.  By that, I mean:  normally, resting HR is around 50-60 but instead it was around 100 BPM and it felt like it was skipping and galloping all the while.  Part of the result was, that I was awake most of the night and got less than 3 hours of fitful sleep last night.

Today I decided to not do any of the most fun type of rowing, which is to row fast.  So I started out super slow and maintained a super slow pace for a couple thousand meters, then gradually increased the effort every couple K but never rowed very hard.  Heart rate started out high because it was already too high and had been for about 24 hours.  But it settled down to a regular rhythm and a normal rate within the first 1,000 meters and behaved normally!!! for the rest of the 10,000 meters!!!  Thanks be to God!!! – maybe I’ll get a normalish night’s sleep tonight.

Happy rowing and good sleeping to you.