Heart Strangeness – Page 5

Followup of Yesterday’s Approach

Finish screen for today’s first workout, a 10K done at constant pace of 2:20/500m.

With strange heart behavior still in mind, today’s workout was a followup of yesterday’s. I may not have mentioned it lately, but I’m also making sure to do these daily workouts before breaking fast for the day, with the hope in mind that it will help the mitochondria better sort out any problems they might be having in relation to the strange heart behavior.

Today’s first session was rowing 10,000 meters at a constant, average pace of 2:20. Heart rate behaved normally again today as it had during yesterday’s similar 10K.

The second session was a SkiErg session similar to yesterday’s, but with one more calorie added to the goal. Heart rate acted up and got strange again during today’s SkiErg session: At 2 minutes 42 seconds into the session, heart rate spiked even though I was in a rest interval. It remained way too high for remainder of the session.

RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing session.

RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing session.

Chart and data for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Bit Experimental

Today’s erg workouts were like yesterday’s only they were different in minor respects. Today’s 10K was a constant pace. It did not include sprinting or interval(s) like yesterday’s. I’m unscientifically experimenting to see if there is any correlation between higher effort levels and heart strangeness.

Today’s SkiErg session was similar to yesterday’s, with a total goal of one calorie more, 150 Calories. The SkiErg session was not constant paced and consisted of alternating work/rest intervals of 10 calories each.

Heart behavior was normal during today’s rowing session of constant-rate 2:20/500 meter paced 10K. Heart strangeness happened on the SkiErg, in that it took longer than normal for heart rate to recover after each work interval.

After the rowing and SkiErg sessions, a 2 minute rowing warm down was done. The w/d was done at a very easy pace but heart rate remained high during those 2 minutes.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.

Chart and data for today’s SkiErg session. Heart rate went too high after the 2nd of seven intervals and remained too high through the end of SkiErg session and the warm down afterwards.

Finish screen for the two minute warm down.

Happy rowing to you!

Normal Start, Strange Finish

Finish screen for today’s 10K. See below for a closer-view of the graphs…

Today’s erg workouts were planned to be a repeat of yesterday’s. Today started out with a 10K, targeting a pace of just faster than 2:20 and a rating of 28, like yesterday. Also like yesterday, a single 500 meter interval was done at a pace of about 2:00, beginning when the remaining distance counted down to 4,000 meters.

Every thing was normal from the start, through the 500 meter interval and a little beyond the end of the 500 meter interval. Then things got strange, like the day before yesterday. Heart rate became irregular with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and heart rate also spiked up to a rate too high for the low effort level of 2:20/500 meters rowing.

On the heart rate chart you can easily see that heart rate shifted/jumped from a normal rate of around 120 BPM when pace was 2:20, to an abnormally high rate of around 150 BPM.

Heart behavior and rate remained strange after the rowing session was over and all through the SkiErg session which immediately followed the rowing session. After I changed from workout clothes back into regular attire (jeans and T-shirt), heart rate became normal again. Perhaps it is something to do with the clothes? 🙂

Chart and data for today’s SkiErg session. Heart rate was way too high for the moderate effort levels.

Happy rowing to you!

Strange Heart Strangenessless

Both today and yesterday’s 10K rowing sessions were done at identical pace and each had one interval of 500 meters. Today’s (on the right) was NORMAL heart rate for that effort, at about 120 BPM. Yesterday’s heart rate was HIGH for that same effort level, at about 150 BPM.

Today started out differently than yesterday in a couple respects. The first of those was that there was no atrial fibrillation overnight or this morning, as there had been the previous day and night. As a consequence of that, the second immediately noticeable difference was that today’s HRV analysis by EliteHRV was a perfect 10, the greenest “green light” possible for any sort of workout today.

Another difference between today and yesterday is that yesterday I did some sweating during both the rowing and SkiErg workouts but today there was no sweating, no drips of sweat today on either the rowing machine or on the SkiErg platform, like there had been yesterday.

Yesterday, there was “heart strangeness” and I categorized yesterday’s blog post, accordingly, with that tag of “heart strangeness”. Today, heart behaved perfectly but because the difference between yesterday and today is so surprising, “strange” to me, I’m using that same tag for today’s post.

Though I rowed yesterday and today at the same easy pace, with sweating while rowing yesterday but not today… today’s SkiErg session was a bit harder than yesterday’s but today there were NO drips of sweat on the SkiErg platform, like there had been during yesterday’s easier SkiErg session while experiencing irregular heart rate which was abnormally high.

Happy rowing to you!

A Trial Of Fibrillation

This morning’s EliteHRV analysis on the left and EliteHRV’s graph of my irregular Afib in the graph on the right.

Today started with a very poor HRV analysis by the EliteHRV app and today’s workouts were both blah.

They were blah, because atrial fibrillation happened throughout. Not only did the heart go flutter-flutter, but it also went way too fast for the low effort level. I thought that maybe it would “straighten up and fly right,” before the end of the 10K rowing or the SkiErg session but it didn’t. Hopefully, it will straighten up today or tonight.

But on the BRIGHT SIDE: Though both rowing and SkiErg workouts were very moderate, at least I was able to work up a bit of a sweat. Eventually… it took quite a while, but eventually, sweat happened during the rowing session and continued, through the SkiErg session. The sweat was not profuse, by any means, but it was drippy like proper, respectable sweat should be.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you.

A Green Lit 10K

Today’s EliteHRV analysis was better than yesterday’s and it was green, so I did a bit longer workouts, each at a bit brisker pace than what was done yesterday. The main workout was rowing 10K with a 2:10 pace boat, aiming to stay ahead of the pace boat. There was occasional Afib sputtering of the cardio engine during the 10K but it never persisted and was flutter-free smooth-running for most of the time. You can see the times when the ticker got irregular and fluttered with atrial fibrillation, in the RowPro graph of the rowing session where the vertical spikes to zero are located. There were five of them… possibly six, if you count the very beginning, but heart rate just before the 10K started was 46 to 49 BPM, so that thing which looks like a spike right at the beginning might just be heart rate raising quickly from its low resting rate.

After the rowing, there was a 145 calorie intervals session on the SkiErg.

Today’s green 8 was better than yesterday’s yellow 5 for HRV.

Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing. The Afib spikes in heart rate are not visible in this view but are quite visible, further below, in the RowPro software graph.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data display for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Recovery Day 10K

Continuing the past few days’ theme relating to rockets, the above photo is showed parts of someone’s recovered rocket.

Today’s workout was done as a recovery session after yesterday’s harder work on the SkiErg. It was a steady though sloppy pace for all but the last few hundred meters. Picked up the pace a bit near the end. There were a few brief bits of atrial fibrillation but none of them lasted long. In almost every instance of Afib, the heart rate display went to zero when the fluttery bits happened.

After finishing, I noticed that I hadn’t yet ranked a rowing 10K this season, so this one was entered into the online rankings.

Finish screen for today’s recovery day 10K.

RowPro report for today’s recovery day 10K.

RowPro graphs for today’s recovery day 10K.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s recovery day 10K.

Happy rowing to you!

Launch Postponed

Today’s main workout was originally intended to be a respectable 6K time on the SkiErg. The plan was to target a pace of 2:19.6 for the first 5,500 meters and then do a fun sprint for the last 500. But the launch of that sprint was postponed and the countdown halted because of technical difficulties with heart rate.

In the screenshots of today’s SkiErg charts, below, you can see where heart rate first spiked even though there was no change in pace to cause it to spike. That happened with a little over 2,000 meters remaining. So I slowed down and fiddled with the pace to see if I could influence the heart rate to return to normal, but it was to no avail and the launch of the final sprint had to be scrubbed for today.

Close-up view of where heart rate first spiked though I hadn’t provoked it with any change in pace.

Close up view of the end of the session where heart rate spiked the highest, though the pace was still moderate and a lot slower than original target pace of 2:19.6.

Happy rowing to you!

10K Cut Short

The heart strangeness happened before the last work interval. Heart rate increased before I started working again (first green arrow on the left) and then after I started working to increase the pace, heart rate slowed down. After I stopped working hard, heart rate increased again. But it seemed normal by the end of the session.

Today’s main workout was supposed to be 10K on the rowing machine but it had one falst start and finally got started too late in the day to finish it in a timely manner before dinner.

Before rowing, I did 143 calories of alternating work/rest on the SkiErg (see screenshot, above). The SkiErg session went well except there was a wee bit of strange heart behavior near the end, when heart rate started to rise before I started the last in a series of work intervals. But heart rate seemed to return to normal by the end of the SkiErg session, so I put it out of my mind.

Next, I set up a 10K session and was intending to include 8 intervals of 500 meters each, spread throughout the 10K. But heart rate became irregular, so I got annoyed and went to take an aspirin. To buffer the aspirin, I had something to eat. The rowing workout resumed quite a bit later and there wasn’t enough time to finish it and be back to normal before dinner time, so I limited the 10K to about 4K and quit.

The first attempt at a rowing 10K was cut short after only about 500 meters.

There isn’t much of a graph for the first attempt at a rowing 10K today, but you can see that heart rate display was zero for quite a bit of the time during that 500 meters. When heart rate is zero, that usually means heart rate is too irregular for the heart strap to transmit a readable signal to the rowing machine monitor.

Finish screen view of today’s “main workout,” the 10K Cut Short.

Report for today’s “main workout,” the 10K Cut Short.

Graph for today’s “main workout,” the 10K Cut Short.

Happy rowing to you!

Software and Heartware Glitches

The SkiErg session was done first today. This is a screenshot of its chart and some of its datat. The area circled on the heart rate graph is where heart rate was too high for the effort.

Today’s erg workouts in the order in which they were done were: SkiErg workout of 139 Calories and rowing erg workout structured as 12X1minuteR45seconds within a continuous 30 minute session.

There was one software glitch with RowPro during the 3rd split of the 30 minute session. It is circled on the rowing session report. There were two heartware glitches, one during the SkiErg session and the other during the rowing session. They are circled on their respective graphs.

Another interesting thing in regard to the heart today was that in the moments while I was standing on the SkiErg before starting today’s 139 Calorie SkiErg workout, heart rate was unusually low, at about 50 BPM. Its usually in the 60’s or higher when I’m standing like that. (see screenshot immediately below).

Surprisingly low heart rate while I was standing on the SkiErg before starting work on today’s 139 Calorie session.

Finish screen view of the rowing session.

Report for rowing session. The circles in three of the columns are errors by RowPro 5.0 for the Mac. The bottom line summaries are correct, however.

Graphs of today’s rowing session. The circled areas are where heart rate was too high and also irregular.

Happy rowing to you!