Row-Along Video Recorded – Page 2

9.4% Normal

Today’s total workout time was one hour, 4 minutes and 1.5 seconds, including a 2 minute warmdown which will not be shown here. For all but the last 5 minutes 44.5 seconds, heart rate was too high for the effort level, based on past experience. Then it became normal and remained normal, for those final 5 mins 44.5 seconds, which was about 9.4% of today’s total workout time.

That qualified as strange behavior on the part of the heart and therefore the category tag, “heart strangeness” is added for today’s blog post.

The first portion of today’s workout was 10,000 meters rowing, aiming for an average pace of 2:17 and a rating of 28. Heart rate was about 10 BPM too high for the effort, all the way through the rowing session, based on a lot of past experience. The rowing session was screen-recorded and is available on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K 06202019

The next portion of today’s workout was 161 Calories on the SkiErg. Heart rate immediately climbed to be too high for the effort and remained too high until after 12 minutes and 40 seconds, then it went down into its normal BPM range for that effort level. You can see what I’m referring to, on the chart for today’s SkiErg session, where I circled the too-high HR area.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.

Chart and data for today’s 161 Calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

5X750mR250m

Finish screen after today’s five 750 meter intervals.

Today’s title is shorthand for today’s main workout: Five intervals of 750 meters each, with 250 meters of rest after each of those five intervals.

The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording, for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. It is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 5X750metersR250meters 05102019

There was also a SkiErg session of 1,000 meters. Data for the SkiErg session won’t be posted here, but you can see it on the Concept2.com website if you are logged in and view my rowing sessions.

RowPro graphs of today’s five intervals.

Happy rowing to you.

Twenty Minutes With 4 “Bursts”

I didn’t believe today’s HRV analysis should be taken seriously, but it seems to have been correct.

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

Finish screen for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

Report for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

RowPro graph for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

The Heart Cooperative

Finish screen for today’s intervals pyramid session.

Today the heart and everything else in the propulsion system cooperated and the workouts happened as planned. The main workout was a set of pyramid intervals of 2-3-4-3-2 minutes within a single 30 minute session.

A screen recording was made of that session, for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. That screen recording is available on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing 30 minute pyramid 05082019

After the 30 minutes of rowing, there was a 135 calorie SkiErg session.

Report for today’s intervals pyramid session.

Graphs for today’s intervals pyramid session.

Chart and some data for today’s 135 calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Confusion of the Heart

Today’s main rowing session was a series of twenty intervals of 20 seconds, with 4o seconds of rest after each. After completing 7 or 8 of the intervals, heart rate got a bit confused. At the very end of the session, heart rate got very confused and went up when effort went down. It seemed logical to slow down when heart rate was acting that way, so the intervals weren’t as vigorous as hoped.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available for anyone who’d like to row-along with it, at this link: Indoor Rowing 20X20 seconds R 40 seconds 05042019

Finish screen view for today’s intervals series.

You can see the oddest behavior of heart rate right near the end. Heart rate should have decreased when effort decreased, but instead it made a new high for the session.

The report for today’s rowing session is rather long, with a total of 40 splits for the 20 work intervals plus 20 rest intervals.

RowPro graph for today’s interval series.

Chart and data for the 131 Calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Begone, Valerian! A Half Marathon Works Better!

Today’s HRV analysis score is better than yesterday’s, despite having rowed a half marathon yesterday.

If any of you have been reading every word of these blog posts you will know that I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping. I’ve had many middle-of-the-night periods of being wide-awake insomnia.

But more important: if any of you have been reading every word of my blog posts: How do you manage to do that? I’ve been told in no uncertain terms that this blog is exceedingly boring and I totally agree. There’s no plot, etc. Just a daily splattering of bits mostly about what indoor rowing was done. To read every word of these blog posts would be an exceptional, amazing task.

Anyway… with regard to the SLEEP issues, I was somewhat amazed to have had a “perfect” night’s sleep. Deep, restful and only interrupted very briefly once, for a call of nature. Below you can see a chart of last night’s sleep. It’s actually a chart of heart rate and activity levels (movement detected by Apple Watch) during last night’s sleep. But you can see from the chart that there was only one brief interruption between 1 and 2 AM. The recent doses of Valerian to help with sleep did nothing, compared to positive after-effect of rowing the half-marathon.

This was the best night’s sleep in a long time. Do I have to row a half-marathon, to get a good night’s sleep?

Today’s workout consisted of a 30 minute online session, 2K warm down and 126 Calories burned on the SkiErg.

The 30 minute online session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube and it can be found at this link: Indoor rowing 30 minutes online 04192019

Finish screen view for today’s 30 minute online session.

Report for today’s 30 minute online rowing session.

Graphs for today’s 30 minute online rowing session.

Data for today’s 126 Calorie SkiErg workout.

Happy rowing to you!

A Two Week Hiatus

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.

Happy rowing to you!

Interrupted By A Call

Today’s heart rate variability analysis with EliteHRV app was a green light for any effort level.

Last night’s sleep was interrupted with a period of insomnia wakefulness but total sleep was sufficient at 7 hours 50 minutes.

Today’s main workout was a 30 minute rowing session with a target pace of 2 minutes 3 seconds/500m. It was interrupted by an urgent call. After returning to the erg, used most of the remaining minutes as a warm down.

The 30 minute session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen-recording. If you row-along with it and don’t take any breaks during the 30 minutes, you should have an easy time finishing ahead of me. It’s link is at this location: Indoor Rowing 30 minutes interrupted 03032019

Finish screen for today’s 30 minute 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!

Afib Is A Drag When Racing

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.

Happy rowing to you!

SkiErg 2K Time Trial

Today’s 2K on the SkiErg was done at RPE Level 9. If you play the session screen recording, you will be able to hear me quite out-of-breath when talking after the end of the 2K.

Today’s HRV reading gave a green light to race or workout as hard as I wanted.

Though last night’s sleep had a huge interruption, I managed to get enough sleep at 7 hours 35 minutes to still have a good HRV reading.

The main workout today was the shortest, a 2,000 meter session on the SkiErg. It might correctly be called a “time trial,” because though it was solo, I was trying to go as fast as possible for that distance. It felt like RPE level 9 but I’m new to the SkiErg, so there is lots of room for improvement.

A screen recording was made of the SkiErg 2k and it can be found at this link: SkiErg 2K 02162019

The longest workout session today was 8,000 meters on the rowing machine. It was done as a warmup for the SkiErg 2K and was done with a target heart rate zone of 133 to 158 and it felt like RPE Level 5. Heart rate was allowed to rise above 158 near the end because it felt good, I was barely perspiring and was breathing easy.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for SkiErg 2K.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 8K warmup.

Happy rowing to you!