This photo was found on a blog with the appropriate name Evidence of Things Unseen.
This morning I decided to take a one day vacation from the daily workout. It was a working vacation or perhaps it could be called a working out vacation. Instead of the recently usual 200C SkiErg and 10,000 meters rowing, I limited it to 250 Calories on the SkiErg and four very short, brief and easy rowing pieces. You can see how short, brief and easy they were from their screenshots below.
Strange as it may seem, there was no heart strangeness (aka Afib) today. Atrial fibrillation is evidence of something unseen in the region of the heart. The above photo seemed in tune with that thought and it was found on a website called Evidence of Things Unseen.
One of the valuable benefits from working out is sweating and what happens when you sweat. There was a tiny bit of sweat today but not enough to warrant taking a shower. So I acted as though I was allergic to water and skipped the shower.
But later in the day I worked outside where the temperature was about 90° Fahrenheit and there was as much sweating as if I’d rowed a respectably paced 10K. So I turned away from the water allergy and took a shower.
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A listing of today’s abbreviated workout session activities.
Today’s first activity was 250 Calories on the SkiErg, with almost 100% easy effort and virtually no extreme effort.
Today’s second activity was this 100 meter rowing piece.
Today’s 3rd activity was this 250 meter rowing piece.
Today’s 4th activity was this 500 meter rowing bit.
The last of today’s abbreviated workout tidbits was this 4 minute rowing piece.
Today’s workouts were hampered by irregular heart rhythm and too-high heart rate. It started yesterday evening, persisted all night and through this morning’s workout. Yesterday there was no coffee consumed at all, so coffee wasn’t the problem.
During the SkiErg session heart rate was a bit irregular and 30 to 40 BPM too high for the effort level, from beginning to end. During the rowing session heart rate became more irregular and remained too high for the effort level.
After today’s workouts I had breakfast with coffee and the heart’s behavior returned to normal. Perhaps it needs coffee.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.
Due to sleep issues involving sleep disruption between midnight and dawn, I got in some early morning reading today. Went back to bed after dawn and slept in very late. Today’s workout was very late also but the daily dosage was done.
Today’s first workout was 200 Calories on the SkiErg. That was followed by a 100 meters easy test row. The 100 meter rowing session didn’t appear in RowPro’s online logbook so I did another short test row of 500 meters. The second test row appeared in RowPro’s online logbook and it brought the 100 meter results with it. So I uploaded both of those to Concept 2 and then set up a 10,000 meter rowing session.
The 10K rowing session was interrupted after a little over 4,000 meters so I set up another rowing session which made up the balance of the 10K for today.
Listing of all of today’s workouts.
Finish screen for the 4148 meters rowing which was the most enjoyable part of today’s workouts.
Today’s awakening was after only 5 hours 35 minutes sleep. But that was okay because I’d been sleeping a bit too much and this balances things out.
The first of two workouts was on the SkiErg targeting 200 Calories. The second was on the rowing machine targeting 10,000 meters.
The graphs tell the main story for today’s workouts. Near the end of the SkiErg session, heart transitioned from regular and normal rate to irregular and a bit too high. It remained a bit irregular and a bit too high throughout the rowing session, but not problematically so.
Finish screen for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
Glutathione in your body acts like many little Pac Men working on your behalf to gobble up toxins.
Detours and excuses abound, to avoid working out.
Entertain some rational consideration of any one of the benefits of working out, however, and you can gain some motivation to detour the detours.
Today’s featured motivation is something you can either pay about $20 an ounce for or which you can get for free if you workout. It is called glutathione.
One doctor whom I heard mention glutathione recently said that glutathione in your body acts like a Pac Man which gobbles up toxins.
Xlnt! A new motivation to add to the list of good reasons for working out!
In other words (if you don’t know what “xlnt” means), “Excellent!”
Funny that I’ve never before thought of Pac Man as anything other than one of the first and most wildly popular of early video games.
You can buy glutathione supplement at places like Results RNA website which features bottles of it like the one pictured below, for either about $40 or $75 for the 2 or 4 ounce bottles. But why buy it? How do you know that spraying it in the mouth is an effective way to boost glutathione? I’d rather have it made “in-house” in my own body. Of course for some people who are perhaps bedridden or for some other reason not able to workout, it might be worth considering. My personal opinion is that personally manufactured glutathione probably works best of all. (I have no affiliation with the “Results RNA” website and can’t say anything pro or con regarding their products.)
Today’s workouts were hampered to a degree by annoying heart behavior. They consisted of a 200 Calorie SkiErg session and a 10K rowing session. Each of the workouts caused some sweating and generated new Pac-Men to gobble up toxins.
The heart rate graphs for the 10K rowing are very messy looking because heart rate was so irregular that the Polar Heart Strap transmitter and Concept 2 PM3-mounted heart rate signal receiver had a difficult time figuring out what to display. Heart straps on the chest tend to be more accurate than wrist-mounted heart rate detectors but the Apple Watch seemed to have an easier time keeping track of heart rate than the Polar Heart Strap did today. Perhaps it was something to do with the irregular heartbeat.
Today’s SkiErg session stuff.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing. It didn’t seem to matter what effort level I rowed. If I rowed moderately or a lot easier, heart rate remained in the 140 to 150 BPM range which was too high for either effort level.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.
Screen shot of Apple Watch’s heart rate graph display for 10K rowing session.
When I looked for confirmation about sweating removing toxins, I found something about it on this website at mindbodygreen.com
Sweating is very helpful in removing toxins from the human body. Cool. Another good reason to row.
While I didn’t first learn about sweat removing toxins from the mindbodygreen.com article or the doctor pictured above, it was another doctor from whom I first heard it.
Enduring exercise at a level that will promote at least a little bit of sweating is easier if a person is aware of the immediate benefits.
A verse in the Bible says “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread.” I’m paraphrasing it. That’s not an exact quote from any particular translation of the Bible.
The particular verse, if you’d like to look it up in your favorite translation of the Bible, is Genesis 3:19.
It (Genesis 3:19) seemed like it might be a curse or punishment, the first time I read it. But I changed my mind about it a long time ago and decided it was just a health and lifestyle recommendation from the Good Doctor of doctors.
The fact that sweating removes nasty toxins like heavy metals from our bodies is more confirmation that it is good advice from our Creator.
Of course if sweat removes toxins then it follows that taking a shower after sweating is a good thing to do, to help wash the toxins off the body.
Unless you are allergic to water.
That would be a serious problem, to have an allergy to water.
Today’s sweat-generating workouts each produced a little sweat. First there was a 200 Calorie SkiErg session. That was followed by setting up the rowing machine for 10,000 meters and rowing 1,022 meters and stopping. I stopped, because that annoying heart behavior was happening again. Heart rate irregular and much too fast for the effort level. So I took an aspirin break, ate something & drank water, then returned and rowed a 9,000 meter session. That was all for today.
Yes, I took a shower afterward. 🙂
Heart strangeness first appeared in the last part of the SkiErg session.
Report for what was supposed to be 10,000 meters but which was only 1,022 meters due to an aspirin break.
RowPro graph for the 1,022 meters.
Report for the 9,000 meter session. Notice that heart rate is abnormally high at the end of each of the nine splits.
RowPro graph for the 9,000 meter session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for the 9,000 meter session.
During the 9,000 meter session when heart rate was visible it reached 210 BPM a few times on the RowPro display. This Apple Watch view of its independent record of heart rate during the 9K confirms the new high of 210 BPM.
First impression from today’s first few minutes on the SkiErg were slight amazement. Heart rate remained low, even though I was starting out faster than the two previous sessions (Sept 2nd and Sept 4th) when heart rate was irregular and also insisted on being way too high for the pace / effort level.
Not sure if I should believe that it would continue normally, I watched it closely with every stroke. The heart can be tricky and deceptive, you know. But it continued to behave well on the SkiErg. In fact, it behaved very well and its average rate was less than 100 BPM during the first 100 Calories. During the second 100 Calories I added 5 intervals of 10 Calories each and heart behavior remained very good. The overall effort for today’s SkiErg session was RPE Level 2.
Once the SkiErg session was over, I wondered if the heart’s good behavior would continue through the rowing session. RowPro was set to 10,000 meters and I decided to row a bit faster than either of the previous two 10K rowing sessions to put the heart to a little test.
The results were about as good as I could have hoped for. Heart rate disappeared momentarily, nine times during the session. But I didn’t feel any fluttery feeling of irregular heart beat. The rowing session was done at RPE Level 4. For a bit more more motivation during the rowing session, I played the screen recording of a 10K session done in July 2018. It had been done at a pace of 2:17.5 and I prodded myself to stay ahead of it. It’s link is Indoor Rowing 10K 07062018 .
Eager to attribute today’s heart behavior to some cause, however illogical that is, I first decided that today’s good heart behavior was due to persisting in doing workouts during the previous sessions, even though the heart had acted cantankerously irregular and its rate was much too high during those two sessions.
But then I remembered something said by the doctor who had talked about microbiomes and the diet and how some of our most beneficial microbiomes thrive on an abundance of fiber in our food. They actually digest it and get nourishment for their little microbiome bodies from fiber in our food.
So it’s equally if not more likely that today’s good heart behavior is attributable largely to the gigantic salad which was the main course for last night’s dinner. To paraphrase something the doctor said about how fruits and vegetables are so amazingly good for us: It’s almost as if they are designed to be beneficial to us.
Heart strangeness was notable for its absence.
Today’s SkiErg session.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing 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.
Patience is a virtue. The part of my mind that likes coffee the most is not patient. As I changed into workout clothes, it tried to strike a bargain to delay the start of the workout for the sake of making a pot of coffee so that coffee would be ready already afterwards.
As if simply making a pot of coffee was all it wanted. After coffee was made, it would want just a little sip, etc., and it would try to arrange for something else with the ultimate objective of avoiding doing any workout whatsoever.
Tabling its suggestion of making a cup of coffee, I sidestepped whatever other suggestions for further delay it had in its subliminal mind.
I was inspired to go directly to the workout this morning because heart rate had been irregular and too high since sometime between 8 and 9 PM last night.
Eating a tiny bit later than usual late-ish evening eating might have had something to do with it. At least that was a speculation that crossed my mind this afternoon when I listened to part of a talk given by a doctor whose specialty includes special attention to the microbiomes in the human body and when he mentioned that they all have their own circadian rhythms.
Not that there couldn’t be other reasons for my heart to have been persistently irregular and too fast since yesterday evening, but that reason sounded as good as any of the other unproved possibilities.
Clinging to the hope that if I changed into workout clothes and “just did it” there would be a repeat of the sudden return to normal as had happened during the rowing workout of September 2nd, I started without further delay. The SkiErg session was first. Two hundred Calories was burned on the SkiErg but heart rate remained too high and fluttery-feeling, irregular from start to finish.
Easy-going, slow skiing was done for most of the SkiErg session with the exception of three tiny increases of pace near the end. But on September 2nd, the heart had remained stubbornly irregular during all the time on the SkiErg also.
So I held out hope that heart behavior would return to normal during the rowing session and set up RowPro for 10,000 meters. As a rowing “companion” and additional motivation I used another monitor to play a YouTube video of a 10,000 meter session I’d rowed in 2018. That session had been done at an average pace of about 2:20/500 meters, which was slower than I wanted to row today. Its name on YouTube is Indoor Rowing 10K constant pace 04302018 .
My rowing goal was to stay ahead of the 10K on the YouTube video by rowing a pace averaging at least 2:15/500 meters. The pace goal was satisfied but heart did not return to normal behavior. Bad heart!
Heart behavior did eventually return to normal rate and regular rhythm but not until after I had breakfast and coffee. Go figure.
Should I have listened to the wily subconscious voice when it tried to delay and divert me? I believe I made the right choice because its delays and other subterfuge would have probably led to doing a workout late in the afternoon, if at all.
Chart and data for today’s SkiErg session.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graph for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing session.
