Category: Easy Workout

Avoiding Procrastination Again By Rowing Online

Finish screen for warm up session.

Scheduling an online rowing session with other people isn’t guaranteed to conquer any tendency to procrastinate about doing some daily rowing.  Everybody knows that the “hardest thing about running” is “putting on your shoes and going out the door” or whatever is your equivalent “ON switch” that gets you started.  Its hard, because you can always find something else to do first, before going out the door to run.

Same with rowing.  There are always plenty of other little things that can be done first.

Yesterday, I scheduled an online rowing session for 7 a.m., set my wake-up alarm for 5 a.m. and set a second reminder alarm for 6 a.m.

The alarm woke me at 6 a.m. and when I looked to see why the 5 a.m. alarm hadn’t done its job, I discovered that it was also set for 6 a.m.  Hmm.  I can’t explain that.

My heart was being irregular again so I tried doing a 10 minute sort of warm up rowing session which helped it settle down a bit.  The warm up session was recorded and can be rowed-along with at this link: Indoor Rowing 10 Mins 08212018

10 min warm up report
Heart rate was so extremely irregular that it wouldn’t even register with the heart strap for the first 5 or 6 minutes. Then it seemed to settle down, though it was beating too fast for the easy effort level.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for the 10 minute warmup.

Heart rate was still a bit flip-floppy irregular when the scheduled session started, but I took it easy so as not to get the heart over-excited and it settled down into a well-behaved semblance of normalcy.

The scheduled session was also recorded, though I forgot to start recording it until just after the session started.  The YouTube link for the scheduled session of 30 minutes is located here: Indoor Rowing About 30 minutes online 08212018

Finish screen for today’s online session.
Report for today’s online session.
RowPro graphs for today’s online session
Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s online session

Happy rowing to you.

7K Online

Today’s rowing session was scheduled a day in advance as an online session.  The main reason I did that was because it is strong incentive to avoid procrastinating about rowing, if I’ve made a commitment to row online with others.

I was totally free of atrial fibrillation during the session, so that alone made it a good session.  But the best thing about rowing online is having the virtual company of one or more other actual people rowing with you.

The session was a distance of 7,000 meters.  It is available for rowing-along-with, at the following link: Indoor Rowing 7K online 08202018

Happy rowing to you.

An Early Quit

Today’s rowing distance was going to be 12,992 meters but it was cut short at around the halfway mark. The reason it was cut short is because the heart, which had been making occasional sputters of irregularity, shifted in to total irregularity and started beating way too fast for the low effort level.

Another way to say it is, that the rowing stopped being fun.

The session was recorded and is available at: Indoor Rowing 377 Calories early quit 08172018

Happy rowing to you.

Revenge On The Cheetos

 

One way to burn calories without exercising is to literally set the food on fire. In the photo above, someone is burning the calories in a single peanut.

Taste bud temptation got the better of me and I recently made the impulsive purchase of a largish bag of “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos”.  The cashier tried to warn me about them, saying things like “they are just too hot!” and “they don’t have any flavor, they just hurt!”.  Though I disagreed with him, I just smiled and told him I’d “give them a chance,” or something like that.

I used to indulge in the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos rather frequently.  Never could eat just one … bag … of them.  Always had to get another bag of them before very much time passed.  I liked what I remembered of both the flavor and their heat.

So when I told the Flamin’Hot Cheetos-hating cashier I’d “give them a chance,” what I meant was that I hoped they were the same as I remembered them.  They were.  I ate a lot of them, to the astonishment and gracious admonishment of my better half.  She (my better half) referred to the back of the bag and calculated that I had consumed about 3,000 calories.

Wow that’s quite a bit.

So today I decided to row 10K.  It might be said that I took a little bit of “revenge” on that Cheeto indulgence, by burning 580 calories rowing today.  Of course, that is only about 19% of the 3,000 calories… so I’d have to row four more 10Ks and then some in addition to those, to merely “break even” on the cheating with Cheetos calories fling.

Anyone feel like keeping me company for an online marathon?  Those 42,195 meters ought to help finish the job of burning the remainder of the 3,000 excess calories.  If you’d like to row a marathon online with me, let me know.  Until then, I will be doing shorter daily distances.

Don’t believe all the tables you find on the internet. There’s something wrong with this chart that I found today because it shows that for someone of my age, according to my heart rate today I was in the “anaerobic (hardcore training)” zone much of the time. But that is simply NOT true because if anybody is in the anaerobic zone, they are breathing hard. I was breathing quite slow and easy.

Any level of exercise will burn calories.  My effort level for today’s 10K was subjectively classified as “easy” because I never had to breathe harder than as if I were walking leisurely.

Today’s 10K was put on YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: Indoor Rowing 580 Calories 08162018

Happy rowing to you.

Rock And Row

After today’s indoor rowing session was done and I touched the Apple Watch to have it stop logging the rowing workout, one of my Activity friends for that watch app sent the encouraging message, “You rock!” (The Apple Watch app gives you the option to reply each time it notifies you that one of your activity friends has completed some kind of workout.  It has a varying selection of pre-formatted responses that you can opt from to send to that friend also.)

I don’t always respond back, because they don’t expect it for most of them, but this time I responded back with my pun for the day of “Rock and row.” A while later, she took a few more moments from her busy day and responded to my pun with “Ha ha” which I thought was nice also, since my puns usually only get groans in response.

Today’s session was 5,344 meters in 16 splits.  A screen recording for rowing-along is on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 321 Calories 08132018

Happy rowing to you.