Today’s workouts were short and avoided high intensity, because this morning’s EliteHRV analysis was a yellow light/caution recommendation.
The first workout was on the SkiErg, alternating work and rest intervals for a total of 144 Calories. After the SkiErg, I rowed an easy 2300 meters as a warm down.
Happy rowing to you!
That’s what today’s workout was: A single 10,000 meter rowing session. No intervals. Mostly steady pace with variations but no sudden or extreme changes.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s workouts consisted of, in chronological order: Two 2K distances at moderate pace, each with 3 moderate “power 10s” every 500 meters. Heart rate acted up by being too high and/or irregular during portions of each 2K. I will only show screenshots for one of the two 2Ks. Next, was a 139 calorie session on the SkiErg. But I felt low-energy/tired and cut that short after 59 calories. Heart rate was a bit too high for the effort, during the shortened SkiErg session. Finally, there was a 5 minute warm down. Heart rate was mostly regular but too high during the warm down – it should have been in the 90s or less but it was over 100. There is no screenshot of the warm down.
The “heart strangeness” was also accompanied by irregular heartbeat. Some evidence of the “strangeness” of the heart behavior can be seen in the graph for the report, below. Also, it can be seen in the report, if you look in the right hand column which displays “End HR”. On the graph, you can see that though I slowed down and greatly reduced my effort from the 15th split to the 20th split at the end, heart rate didn’t slow down like it normally does. Instead, it was sort of fluttery and too high. On the report it shows that it was measured as high as 194, which is higher than I’ve ever seen it when it is acting normally.
When my heart acts normally, it has only climbed as high as 191 with regular heart rate, in all the time I’ve been observing it. When my heart gets irregular, I’ve seen it as high as somewhere a few beats above 200. Today it was irregular and didn’t quite reach 200 BPM.
The strange heart behavior today is also visible on the chart for the SkiErg workout today. I cut that workout short because I felt a bit tired. But looking closely at the shortened SkiErg workout chart (it is the bottom-most screenshot in today’s posted screenshots) you can see that after the 2nd work interval, continued increasing as though I was continuing to work. Heart rate got as high as about 130 during that second work interval but it kept increasing after that second work interval ended, and it peaked at about 161, about the middle of the rest interval, before it started slowing down again like it normally does. That was strange. After the third work interval in that same SkiErg workout which was cut short, heart rate acted strange again and remained high for a lot longer than it should have, while I was gently resting. That was when I decided to cut the session short – I hadn’t really noticed the strange heart behavior, but I felt low-energy tired, as today’s blog post title, A Low Energy Day, says.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s workout was short but more vigorous than recommended by today’s Morning Readiness score from the EliteHRV app.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence or perhaps EliteHRV was right. In either case, an episode of atrial fibrillation happened, which put a damper on things.
So the only workout done was a 20 minute rowing session which included 4 “bursts” of a dozen or so hard strokes. The “bursts” were spaced about 4 minutes apart. The session was uploaded to YouTube, for those of you who’d like to row along with it and is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 20 minutes with 4 bursts 05092019
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The night before last I had a poor night’s sleep. Yesterday the EliteHRV analysis was a red “STOP LIGHT”. So I didn’t row yesterday.
But as you can see above, today’s HRV analysis was a “green light” which I take as permission to workout as hard as I want. I decided to do a long workout instead of a hard workout and rowed a half marathon. Half marathons usually result in a good night’s sleep.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s heart rate variability analysis with the EliteHRV app indicated that I should take it easy. So that’s what I did. The workouts were: 10K rowing at a much more moderate pace than yesterday’s, followed by a SkiErg workout at a more moderate effort level than yesterday’s.
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Today’s rowing was chosen to be low energy because I doubted the result of this morning’s HRV analysis. The graph accompanying the EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading had what appeared to be an artifact so that meant the reading might not be what it appeared to be. Also, I felt a bit low energy.
So the chosen session was an easy 12K. There was no screen recording made of today’s session.
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Today’s main session was a 10K done at RPE Level 2. There were 8 additional, shorter sessions. A screen recording was made for row-along. The screen recording is here: Indoor Rowing 10K 583 Calories 01312019
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Today’s main session was 5K done at an easy pace on the SkiErg, but slightly faster than yesterday’s 5K SkiErg pace. It was done mostly at RPE Level 2, except for slight pickup in pace during part of the last 500 meters. I’m trying to get a feel for the “alien” body involvement with the SkiErg. It is alien, compared to what I’ve become so used to on the rowing machine. I’m liking the SkiErg more and more, as a supplement to rowing – it’s nice to be using some upper body muscles that aren’t used when rowing.
A screen recording was made of the SkiErg 5K, for those of you who’d like to row-along or ski-along with it. It is at this link on YouTube: Indoor Workout 5K SkiErg Easy 01272019
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s main rowing session was 8995 meters with the goal of staying ahead of my most recent session of the same distance by about 10 meters and then going a faster pace a few hundred meters from the finish until calories burned added up to 545. Once reaching 545 calories, I eased up for the few remaining meters of warm down. It was done at RPE level 5. A screen recording was made for those who’d like to row along with it. The screen recording is on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 547 Calories 01262019
There was another 2K done very slowly on the rowing machine at RPE Level 1 and a few kilometers on the SkiErg at an easy effort level of RPE Level 2. All totaled, the distance on rower and SkiErg today came to 16177 meters.
Happy rowing to you!