This morning’s HRV analysis gave a green light for any effort level during the workout.
Although I gave today’s workouts an overall RPE Level 4 rating, which is unremarkable, the observed lowest and highest heart rates seemed very remarkable.
One thing I have a habit of doing every morning is checking to see what my lowest/resting heart rate was during the night, and jotting it down in a notepad. The lowest heart rate during the night had been 53.
But after I changed into rowing clothes, put on the heart strap and sat on the rowing machine before starting to row, heart rate went as low as 51 BPM, which was 2 BPM lower than the lowest it had been during the night while I was laying motionless and in deep sleep!
Perhaps my body was anticipating morning coffee, with its dose of caffeine stimulant and was suppressing its own production of whatever comparable stimulant(s) it makes?
Heart rate was nice and low, before doing any rowing this morning. Just before I reached out to the keyboard to take this screenshot, displayed heart rate had been 51 BPM.
After today’s rowing session, I did a short session on the Concept 2 SkiErg. Heart rate managed to surprise me again by going to the other extreme and reaching as high as 185 during one of the SkiErg intervals.
After the workouts, I made coffee and enjoyed about 5 “cups” (30 liquid ounces) of dark black coffee during the next few hours of the morning.
After the 4th of 5 intervals during the SkiErg workout, HR went as high as 185. Its easy to work hard on the SkiErg…
The main workout today was 10K on the rowing machine. It was done online. This is a view of the finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for today’s SkiErg session.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app gave a green light to workout at any effort level.
Today’s main workout was one hour of rowing, like yesterday’s session. It was also done online, like yesterday’s session. But nobody else signed up for this session, so I did it alone.
After the 60 minutes of rowing, I did a couple hundred calories on the SkiErg.
Finish screen for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Report for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s SkiErg session.
Finish screen view immediately after today’s hour session.
Yes, it has been about 14 days since the most recent previous post here. In that time, some mostly invisible changes and improvements have been made to this website. Those changes are: the website is now encrypted and has an https address. It took a bit of work, but now if you post a comment and include your email address when making the comment (an email address is required to make a comment), that information is all encrypted and cannot be read by anybody who may be snooping/sniffing on any wifi network you use.
Though I took a hiatus from posting to this blog, I continued doing workouts on Concept 2 machines and have logged an additional 112,263 meters since March 9th.
Today’s Elite HRV morning readiness reading was good, so I was free to row at any effort level:
Today’s HRV analysis with the EliteHRV app.
Today’s session was done online. For those of you who would like to row-along with it, a screen recording was made and it can be found at this link: AHh Indoor Rowing 60 minutes online 03232019
RowPro report for today’s 60 minutes online.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes online.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 60 minutes online.
This morning’s HRV reading was okay and without artifacts.
Last night’s sleep was a bit short at 4 hours 25 mins but getting up at the same time every morning is hopefully going to get me on a healthy schedule.
Today’s main session was 1K for a time challenge. It was done online, with two other guys. It was done at RPE 9 to 10. I didn’t know what pace would be best to target and seem to have started out too fast and faded through the distance.
Today’s EliteHRV analysis said that any level of effort would be okay.
Last night’s SleepWatch-logged sleep was adequate, at 6 hours 55 minutes.
Today’s workout was 30 minutes online with 5 other guys who were in Europe and North America. Unlike those with whom I rowed yesterday, today’s rowers were all rowing at a faster pace than my target pace.
My target pace was exactly the same as yesterday, 2:07. I wanted to see if any Afib would develop again today like it did yesterday at that same pace. Everything behaved well. Perhaps it helped, that I warmed up for 10 minutes before today’s session?
Finish screen for today’s 30 minutes online.
Report for today’s 30 minutes online.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minutes online.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minutes online.
This guy was knocked out of a race in the 2016 Olympics by an obstacle. At least he didn’t have Afib…
Today’s rowing session was a 30 minute online race. There was a total of 14 people in the race. After the race began and I watched everyone’s paces for a few minutes I decided that I could finish in 9th or 10th place, if I aimed for a pace of about 2:07.
That was working out well until about halfway through the half hour, when heart rhythm went into its Afib nutso-mode and I had to slow down. So I slowed, picked up the pace, slowed again and repeated that several times, but couldn’t shake the Afib. The result was that I finished last place. At least I finished. 🙂
Perhaps I should have warmed up a bit first?
A screen recording was made of the online race and is available for those who’d like to row-along with it. It’s YouTube link is: Indoor Rowing 30 Minutes with Afib 02242019
Today started out with a good reading from EliteHRV.
SleepWatch app recorded a good night’s sleep at 8 hours 10 minutes.
Finish screen for today’s 30 minute online session.
Report for today’s 30 minute online session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute online session.Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute online session.
Yesterday was a day of global cooling and it snowed in the desert.
Today’s main workout was one hour rowing. It was done at an overall RPE Level 4, with variations.
Finish screen for today’s 1 hour rowing session.
The 60 minute rowing session was done online with the company and inspiration of another rower. I finished in second place, as you can see in the above screenshot of the session results.
Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis was very low. But I had problems going to sleep and staying that way last night which resulted in staying in bed until a little past NOON(!) today. Therefore, the EliteHRV reading was several hours late. The readings are supposed to be taken about the same time every day. I decided to disregard today’s reading, since it was taken much later than it should have been.Last night’s sleep was more than enough at 9hours 10minutes but it was poor quality due to an interruption of wide-awakeness and some Atrial fibrillation.
Today’s main rowing session was 30 minutes online. It wasn’t a race, because there was an agreement between the other guy and me that we’d aim for a pace of 2:10 and I would pace him. I enjoy pacing another rower. I also enjoy racing, which might be why thoughts, cognition and imaginations of racing came to mind during the session. In the midst of that cloud of race-themed neuron activity, entered the thought that both the other guy and me are each in a race against the fictional figure, “Father Time”. We row daily and do other workouts, to avoid being ravaged by some of the effects of passing time which can be mitigated or avoided through aerobic activity.
The 30 minute online session was done at RPE Level 5 and it’s available as a screen recording for those who’d like to row-along. It’s link is: Indoor Rowing Online 30 mins 01252018
Like last night’s sleep was bothered by atrial fibrillation, today’s 30 minute session was also visited by Afib. However it wasn’t the kind of Afib that changes into tachycardia – it just manifested itself with occasional feelings of fluttering and causing the heart strap to lose track of its count which caused the heart rate display to go blank. After about 15 minutes it settled down and went steady again.
The Afib did not reappear after that first 30 minute session. I did 8 more sessions after the 30 minute piece, some on the rowing machine and the rest of them on the SkiErg and there was no more Afib with any of those.
The RPE Levels for the sessions after the 30 minute session were: RPE Level 2 for the 2K warm down, RPE Level 3 for the 3,000 meter piece, RPE Level 10 for the 100 meter sprint and all the rest of them were done at RPE Level 4.
Finish screen for the main 30 minute session.
Report for the main 30 minute session.
The atrial fibrillation was during the first part of the 30 minutes, where heart rate kept disappearing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for the main 30 minute session.
Chart of the session following the 30 minutes – a 2K warm down with no Atrial fibrillation.
Chart of the 3rd of nine sessions today. This was a 3K and there was no atrial fibrillation.
This is a listing of all nine of today’s sessions on rowing machine and SkiErg. The one that was the most fun was also the shortest – the 100 meter sprint on SkiErg.
Today’s Readiness was taking with a grain of salt as I mentioned in yesterday’s post… but the grain of salt was later dispensed with after I received more knowledge about the app from a reliable expert on the matter.
There was no indoor rowing goal at the start of the day, except to do some rowing before eating anything. The goal of burning more than 1,000 calories rowing today was decided upon after rowing a 60 minute session, warming down, looking at the total calorie count and noticing it was less than 1,000. One of the current Concept 2 challenges is called “The Big Burn”. The object of that challenge is to burn at least 20,000 calories on a C2 machine this January.
This morning a friend explained how to easily check to see whether or not the EliteHRV app had detected any “signal artifacts” during its morning reading. If it has detected any artifacts, the reliability of its reading is in question, according to his analysis. Checking simply involves clicking/touching a few particular places on the app, but I had been unaware of that.
The happy news was that there were no artifacts and the morning readiness reading today is worthwhile as a training signal.
Another important training signal, quantity of sleep, was also “GO” for training today, at more than 8 hours sleep.
Resting heart rate was a little high at 55 BPM. That was not a drastic difference from normal and was probably due to the virus that tried to get a foothold the previous day. So I took the RHR as a “GO” training signal also.
There is another possible training signal that I don’t know what to think of yet, so I guess I’ll just have to keep watch on it from day to day to form an opinion. It is a relatively new data feature of the sleep logging app I use (SleepWatch): Average heart rate during sleep. It seems to me that average sleeping heart rate would be influenced by things like how much a person ate before bedtime, how much time passed after eating and before going to bed and room temperature, to name a few things that come to mind. I don’t know if it is as relevant as RHR or relevant at all, as any kind of a training guide or signal.
There is a screen recording of the main piece, a 60 minute rowing session today. For those of you who’d like to row along with it, the link for the screen recording can be found here: Indoor Rowing 60 minutes 01052019
Screenshots for the 60 minute piece are below. It was done at about RPE Level 5. The other two shorter shorter pieces were done at RPE Level 1 and I won’t bother posting anything about them. But they are visible to anyone who has a Concept 2 logbook account and who is logged in to the online logbook.
I didn’t get a very early start today and my legs felt a bit tired, so I put off rowing until after noon. For the sake of getting more critical repair and replacement work on my mitochondria, especially the heart mitochondria, I also put off eating until after rowing was finished. So the time before breaking fast was more than 20 hours, which was a solid 8 hours of special benefit to the mitochondria. Happily, both heart rate & rhythm behaved perfectly.
