Today’s 10K put my total rowing calorie burn for the month past the goal of 20,000 calories, for the Concept 2 Big Burn challenge.
My target during this 10K was to aim for a heart rate of 120 BPM, plus or minus 10 BPM.
A screen recording was made of the session and will be available at the following link:”Indoor Rowing Target HR 120 01302018“.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was another one motivated by the goal of burning 20,000 calories rowing during this month of January for the concept2.com Big Burn challenge. After today’s half marathon, there are less than 500 calories remaining.
The half marathon included intervals every 5 minutes, to make it interesting.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was an hour session with a few intervals. For the Concept 2 challenge of the Big Burn, I have only 2,886 more calories to burn between now and midnight on January 31st, to reach 20,000 calories this month.
The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube and may be found at this link: “Indoor Rowing 60 minutes 143 Watts 01272018”
Happy calorie burning to you.
It’s impossible of course, to get a perfectly straight line when rowing with one single target heart rate, but it gives you something to do while rowing. Today there was only enough time for a 20 minute session.
The session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and when it is finished uploading and processing it will be at this link: “Indoor Rowing 20 minutes at 159 Watts with No Music 01262018“.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was 10K with a target of 140 Watts average power. When the session was finished, the RowPro 5 for the Mac screen display showed an average of 140.0 Watts but the RowPro 5 for the Mac session report listed average Wattage as 142.5.
I arbitrarily chose the higher number as being most correct and named the session “Indoor Rowing 10K at 142 Watts 01252018” which is what it is called at that link to which its screen recording was uploaded on YouTube.
There was also a warm down of 2,000 meters but I’m not bothering to insert that in today’s post.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was 10,000 meters at a turtle pace, with one minute intervals moderately fast, every 5 minutes. After that, there was a very slow warm down which wasn’t needed for the sake of warming down, but was done for the sake of getting the day’s quota of rowing calories for the Concept 2 Big Burn challenge.
The two rowing sessions were uploaded to YouTube as screen recordings and can be found at the following links: “Indoor Rowing 10K at 136 Watts 01232018” and “Indoor Rowing 3K Warm Down at 97 Watts 01232018”
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing started with a 6K laced with 5 intervals, then a 5K with 4 intervals and finally a 5K at constant pace of about 2:23/500 meters (121 Watts) with no intervals and a “power 10” when the distance counted down to 500 meters remaining.
Two of the sessions were uploaded to YouTube as screen recordings and will be available at these links: “Indoor Rowing 5K at 135 Watts 01222018” and “Indoor Rowing 5K at 121 Watts 01220218“.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing was like yesterday’s, only better because unlike yesterday, today the horse was calm.
It consisted of three 5K sessions which were recorded and uploaded to YouTube as screen recordings.
They can be found on YouTube at the following links: “Indoor Rowing 5K 1st of 3 on 0121018“, “Indoor Rowing 5K 2nd of 3 on 01212018” and “Indoor Rowing 5K 3rd of 3 on 01212018“.
Happy and peaceful rowing to you.
Sometimes I think of my heart as being like a horse. Having a mind of its own and relatively simple minded, but it wants to get along with me as well as it can.
Today the horse was wild and crazy or agitated. A possible reason for its agitated behavior might be because of a chemical unbalance due to having taken a dose of a supplement called “NOS”.
The bottle was a gift to me, years ago, and is supposed to help produce a natural and helpful amount of Nitric Oxide. I haven’t taken any for quite a while and had forgotten about it until I spotted it on a shelf today and decided to take a dose to see if it would help me to row faster while not seeming to work any harder.
After taking the NOS, heart rate went crazy irregular and its rate went way too high. It hadn’t bothered me that way before. I looked at the expiration date on the bottle and it was sometime in 2010. Did it change into something else, in the years since 2010?
I couldn’t undo the fact that I’d swallowed them about 45 minutes earlier, so I tried some rowing as therapy to calm the horse.
Three short sessions had more appeal than one longer session so I rowed three 5Ks. The first 5000 meters didn’t seem to help (see the graphs or watch the video for proof that it was still agitated during the first 5K). Neither did the second one (see the graphs or watch the video for proof that it was still agitated during the second 5K).
But somewhere early in the third 5K – after about 1200 meters- the horse finally calmed down and returned to its normal regular and steady behavior with a normal BPM. It still seemed to be a bit agitated, because it seemed to speed up a bit too quickly when I would increase the effort level and when I GREATLY decreased effort level, it didn’t seem to slow as much as it normally would, but it felt quiet and calm in my chest instead of feeling “fluttery” and “agitated” like it had felt before and so it was almost “perfect” and resulted in a perfect line graph with no vertical lines disrupting it.
Third time was the charm, for calming the horse.
In the graphs below which show vertical lines in the heart rate graph, those vertical lines happened each time heart rate was too irregular for a reading to be calculated and displayed. You can clearly see that the vertical lines disappeared from the heart rate graphs during the last 3800 meters of the third 5K session.
The three 5K sessions were recorded and uploaded to YouTube as screen recordings and will be active either late tonight or early tomorrow at these links: “Indoor Rowing 5K 1 of 3“, “Indoor rowing 5K 2 of 3” and “Indoor Rowing 5K 3 of 3“.
Happy rowing to you and your calm horse.
Today’s indoor rowing was 14K with intervals, interruptions, daydreaming and RowPro software glitches.
The interval setup was 14×200 meters with active rest of 800 meters after each interval. Before the 14K session began, there was 750 meters of warm up. After the 14K session started, there were several interruptions where I had to either row one-handed or stop, so I could respond to text messages. Two or three times during the session, RowPro partially froze with the area that displayed effort as either Watts, Calories per hour, pace etc remaining unchanged for a while. The rest of the software seemed to continue to function. Once, when it was time to row the 9th interval, I was daydreaming and totally didn’t notice it until it was too late.
Other than that, everything went okay. Especially the heart – it remained 99% regular and was in the right BPM range for all the variations in effort.
Happy rowing to you.