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 )
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Today’s rowing session was 10K with target HR zone of 138 to 150. For a few minutes during the session I was absent minded from rowing, letting my thoughts drift elsewhere. During those few minutes, HR exceeded the upper boundary.
Today’s is the first rowing session since earlier this same month on the 19th. This session was 10K done with a target heart rate zone of 137 to 149. The first 2K was done slowest, to serve as a warm up. After the first 2K I stopped and announced to the “viewing audience” that the warmup was over.
Today’s session was another 10K done with target heart rate zone. The target zone was 133 to 150 BPM.
An article I saw recently mentioned that sustained aerobic exercise literally “cleans the brain,” as I may have mentioned recently in another blog post. So today’s rowing session could be considered a routine brain cleaning, from that perspective.