Mentally absorbing workout – Page 5

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 Long Minute

Each second seems longer than normal, when sprinting with maximum effort.

Today’s main session was the shortest, a one minute rowing sprint. It was the “main” session, mainly because it was the most fun. The other, longer session was 146 Calories on the SkiErg, which was done first, as a sort of warmup for the one minute rowing sprint.

Time does seem to pass more slowly, when doing something like sprinting with maximum effort. In contrast, each minute of today’s much lower effort-level session on the SkiErg seemed to pass relatively quickly.

The report for the one minute sprint is divided into 3 splits of 20 seconds each. First split was slower than the second split, though I was freshest during the first split – because it took extra time to accelerate from a stop. The third split was slower than the second split for a different reason: because after 40 seconds I was getting tired and involuntarily slowing.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data display for the SkiErg session

RowPro finish screen for the one minute sprint.

RowPro report for the one minute sprint.

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 Steadier Paced 10K

Today was a 10K rowing session like yesterday, only a bit steadier pace was maintained.

Happy rowing to you!

Successful Launch, Heart Systems AOK

Today’s 500 meter push and final sprint was successfully launched after the countdown on the 5,500 meter launchpad was 100% AOK with all heart systems go.

Today’s main workout was another attempt to do the SkiErg 6K which had to be scrubbed the day before yesterday.

Today’s plan was same as previous: Use a Pace Skier @ 2:19.6 and stay even or slightly ahead until distance counted down to the launch.

The “launch” was a faster pace beginning when 500 meters remained. Pace was increased from start to finish of the final 500 meters and was just short of an all-out sprint during the last 100 meters.

There was a 3 minute warmup before the 6K and there were two warm downs after the 6K. Of those warmup/warm downs, I’ll only show screen shots for the last warm down.

The “launch” is the circled area to the right of the 5,500 meter “launchpad”.

Finish screen for today’s final warm down.

Happy rowing to you!

Encouragement Helped To Resume

This morning I managed to muster enough motivation to engage in some erg-motion. After the workouts on the ergs, emotion was positively enhanced.

Recently I asked another guy who also uses the concept2.com online logbook what he does to motivate himself. I hadn’t done a workout in about three days and my better half had remarked about that. Her remark was part of what led to me asking the question of another concept2.com logbook user.

His reply in part was: “Most important to me is keeping healthy, active, keeping my mobility and living a long happy life, as much as is possible. “

What he said wasn’t actually anything I hadn’t heard or thought about before, but it was in my mind this morning and thinking about it was a catalyst to get me on the ergs today.

The first of two workouts today was on the SkiErg.

Today’s workouts consisted of 142 calories on the SkiErg (see above) and 10,000 meters on the rowing machine (see below). Both workouts included intervals of alternating work and rest.

The second workout today was 10K on the rowing machine. This is a view of the RowPro finish screen for that workout.

Report for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.

RowPro graphs for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Cautious Day

This caution sign seemed appropriate for the top of today’s post. It was found on a website whose focus is dark matter and related stuff. A link to the website where it was found is in the text of the first paragraph below.

Today was a cautious workout day. Avoidance of atrial entropy was the reason for caution. The above image seemed appropriate as a header for today’s blog post. It was found on a website about dark matter and related stuff. Pardon my lack of precision after merely glancing at a few articles on the website, which is titled: Dark Matters a Lot

The reason for today’s caution was today’s Morning Readiness score with the EliteHRV app.

The cautious approach chosen was: Do one workout each, on SkiErg and rowing machine, but do each of them moderately without getting carried away with exuberant effort no matter how good I felt.

The SkiErg workout was done first, as a 141 Calorie session with alternating work/rest intervals of about 10 calories each. Following the SkiErg, a 30 minute rowing session was done as single combination session consisting of 2 minute warmup, four 4-minute intervals and a warm down.

Atrial entropy didn’t increase, so the two sessions must have been sufficiently moderate.

After the SkiErg session a 30 minute rowing session was done. This is a view of the finish screen for that rowing session.

Report for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

Workout Circuit Interrupted

This curious looking photo was chosen for the top of today’s blog post only because it is a photo of an interrupter. ( For more about it see this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_circuit_interrupter )

Today’s workout wasn’t much of a circuit: A 140 Calorie SkiErg workout followed by a 30 minute rowing session. The SkiErg session was completed but the rowing session was interrupted and cut short, from the planned 30 minutes, to a little more than 10 minutes.

The SkiErg session was done first, without interruption.

A little more than 1/3 of the planned rowing session was done before interruption.

Graph of what little rowing was done today.

Happy rowing to you!

Skiing on a Perspiration Pool Towel

The damp area on the towel is about a pint of sweat lost during today’s SkiErg 5K session.

Today’s main erg workout was the shortest of two. It was a 5K done as a time trial on the SkiErg. To intercept the sweat, there is an old towel covering the SkiErg platform. In the photo above, you can see the damp area where the towel caught the rain of perspiration.

After the 5K SkiErg, I did 30 minutes on the rowing machine. The rowing session was done as a series of eight 2 minute work/1 minute rest intervals. Though I worked harder on the rowing machine, my legs did most of the work and the rowing wasn’t enough effort on the legs, to cause much sweat at all. Just a few scattered droplets near the end of the 30 minutes rowing, instead of a rainstorm as happened with the shorter SkiErg session.

Chart and some data for today’s 5K time trial on the SkiErg.

Finish screen view for today’s 30 minutes rowing.

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!