Category: Rate of Perceived Exertion 6

Afib Truly Woke Me

This is a graph of this morning’s heart rate samples, taken every few minutes by the Apple Watch. You can see that at about 5 AM heart rate spiked a bit and stayed elevated from 5 AM until this screenshot was taken at about 9 AM. HR returned to normal sometime before noon.

There is no HRV analysis reading for this morning because I was having a bit of Afib at the time the HRV reading should have been taken. Afib during an HRV reading skews the reading and basically makes it worthless. So the EliteHRV app was skipped for today and instead I savored and drank black coffee.

The Afib started early this morning after I woke for a bathroom call at about 0500 and returned to bed. So… rather than lay awake, I got up. Sleep had been good until then but total sleep was a little short, at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Sleep was good and without interruptions from about 11 PM to 5 AM.

I felt okay, so I assumed the HRV reading would have been a “GO” for doing any workout. The goal for today’s aerobic activity was to burn 800 calories. The goal was reached with 3 sessions on the SkiErg and one on the rowing machine.

From first to last they were (1st): A 99 calorie warmup on SkiErg at RPE Level 3, (2nd): 1K on SkiErg at RPE Level 5 (3rd): 2K on SkiErg at RPE Level 6, (4th) 540 calories in 8,995 meters on rowing machine at RPE Level 5.

A screen recording for those who’d like to row-along was made of the rowing session and it is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 540 Calories 01232019

Summary data and chart for the SkiErg warmup.
Summary data and chart for the 1,000 meter session on SkiErg
Summary data and chart for 2,000 meter session on SkiErg
Finish screen for 540 Calorie session on rowing machine.
Report for main calorie session on rowing machine.
RowPro graphs for main calorie session on rowing machine.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for main calorie session on rowing machine.

Happy rowing to you!

Tingly All Over

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading didn’t seem to have been dampened at all by yesterday’s workout and it even improved over yesterday’s.
Last night’s sleep was good, though a little short at 6 hours 35 minutes and with two brief interruptions.

After today’s aerobic workouts I felt tingly, all over. It’s a good feeling.

Today’s rowing was a preset distance of 13,400 meters. That distance was chosen based on the distance rowed yesterday to reach 800 calories. That was the main workout and it was done at RPE Level 6. It was followed by another attempt at doing a 500 meter sprint on the SkiErg, which was done at RPE Level 10. Lastly there was a 2 minute warmdown at RPE Level 1.

Screen recordings of each were made for those who’d like to row or SkiErg-along with either of them. The 13,400 meter indoor row is at this link:Indoor Rowing 13400 meters 01222019 and the 500 meter SkiErg sprint is at this link: Indoor Skiing 500 meters 01222019

Finish screen – today’s 13,400 meter session.
Report- today’s 13,400 meter session.
RowPro graphs- today’s 13,400 meter session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart- today’s 13,400 meter session.
Finish screen-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.
Report-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.
RowPro graphs-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.
Concept 2 online logbook chart-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!