Category: Row-Along Video Recorded

Today’s indoor rowing was different from yesterday’s in that the average power was increased by one more Watt, from 146 to 147 Watts. That resulted in a small increase in pace and a total increase of 1 “large” calorie but there was no resulting increase of heart rate at the end.

Tomorrow’s session is planned to be 148 Watts.

Today’s session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and will eventually be available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K at 147 Watts 02092018“.

Happy rowing to you.

Today was another in a string of indoor rowing 10Ks. Yes, I’m addicted to the ethereal* results of indoor rowing. Thus, today’s title.

The plan for today was to aim for a target pace of 2:14/500m and then to increase the effort for tomorrow’s 10K by 1 (one) Watt for tomorrow’s average power. And increase average power by one more Watt the next day, etc until the session’s End HR is about 140 BPM.  Its something to do that shouldn’t be overworking the heart, between now and the date of my next cardiologist appointment.

Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube and will eventually be available at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K Addiction Fix 02072018“.

Happy rowing to you.

*Happiness is ethereal.  Working or exercising at a sufficient level stimulates the body to produce the hormone serotonin, which is the hormone associated with happiness.

Today’s session was 10,000 meters with a pace target of 2:14/500m average pace while giving attention to heart rate.  The heart rate zone painted on the screen wasn’t the same as the mental heart rate zone being used.  The mental zone was an upper boundary of around 140.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording.  It may be found at this link: “Indoor Rowing 2m 14s Pace Target with Heart Zone 02062018“.

Happy rowing to you.

Today I decided to see what happened if I rowed slow enough that heart rate would be a lot lower than 120 BPM.  But the extra-slow rowing only lasted about 3,500 meters.  Someone started text-messaging me, so I replied by taking a brief video of the rowing monitor with one hand and continuing to row with the other hand.  The text I sent along with that brief video was “I’ll be done in about 30 minutes.”

You can see that one-handed rowing video here: “Rowing with one hand while texting“.

Then I increased the effort and rowed a bit harder so that the “done in 1bout 30 minutes” part would be true.

The 10K was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and can be found at this link: “Indoor Rowing From Below To Inside A Heart Zone 02052018”

Happy rowing to you.

Today was another 10K with target heart rate of 120 BPM.

The average effort to maintain 120 BPM was a lot lower than that of the day before yesterday.  Once again, God only knows why. I don’t have a clue as to the reason why the big difference from one day to the next at the same heart rate.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K w target HR 02042018“.

Happy rowing to you.

That’s the reason I’m doing the ongoing series of 10Ks with the same target heart rate of 120.  Curiosity as to whether the body will adapt and there will be improvement resulting in higher power and faster pace  though the heart rate is the same.

Today and yesterday were with the same target heart rate but today’s session report shows an average power of 143.6 Watts and yesterday’s an average power of 123.9 Watts.  That’s quite a bit of difference, almost 15% more power today than yesterday.  God only knows why because I don’t know and nothing comes to mind that was significantly different today than yesterday. Perhaps what I ate today was better than yesterday or perhaps I got a better night’s sleep? I don’t know.  But God always knows why.

I’ll keep on doing 10Ks at a target HR of 120 for a while, and see what the variation in power is from day to day.  Just curious, am I.

Today’s indoor rowing session was done on a Windows 7 computer with RowPro 4 instead of on a Mac using RowPro 5 for the Mac.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and may be found at the following link: “Indoor Rowing 10K heart rate zone workout 02022018“.

Happy rowing to you.

This may seem like déjà vu  because its a different day with the same goal for a 10K – target heart rate 120.  I’ve decided to do a string of them.  Don’t know how many… to compare results in watts/calories/average pace and see if it remains constant or changes.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at “Indoor Rowing 10K Target HR 120 BPM on 02012018”

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s 10K put my total rowing calorie burn for the month past the goal of 20,000 calories, for the Concept 2 Big Burn challenge.

My target during this 10K was to aim for a heart rate of 120 BPM, plus or minus 10 BPM.

A screen recording was made of the session and will be available at the following link:”Indoor Rowing Target HR 120 01302018“.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s session was another one motivated by the goal of burning 20,000 calories rowing during this month of January for the concept2.com Big Burn challenge.  After today’s half marathon, there are less than 500 calories remaining.

The half marathon included intervals every 5 minutes, to make it interesting.

Happy rowing to you.