Today’s session was similar to yesterday’s but today I forgot to start the screen recording until after the online session began.
During the 10K, I rowed the first 3K easy and then did ten pairs of 20 second intervals with 2 minutes recovery, to keep the mitochondria happy.
The screen recording for row-along is here: Indoor Rowing online late start recording 11112018
Happy rowing to you.
The plan for today’s rowing session was influenced by an article I read on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and also by a short (12 minute) talk and explanation by a medical doctor regarding some of the benefits of HIIT inclusion in daily workouts. (That 12 minute talk is on YouTube at this link: HIIT: How to Regrow Your Mitochondria? Really?- Ford Brewer MD MPH )
Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: Indoor Rowing HIIT within online 10K 11102018
After the screen recording starts and before the actual online rowing session begins, I do a little talking. I talk slowly and pause a few times while talking. I was rather sleepy 😴 and the pauses were made when I was yawning with sleepiness…
The session today was 10K done online in the virtual company of a few other rowers in the US and Europe. I rowed easy for about the first 15 minutes as a warmup. Then, I started an interval timer which alternated between beeping after two minutes and then beeping next, after 20 seconds. During the 20 second timer period, I would row about as fast as I possibly could. After each 20 second “high intensity” interval, I would row easy for two minutes. I did ten of those 20 second hard/2 minute easy intervals.
My mitochondria feel better already (see below)
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was done ASAP in the morning, before going to vote on this Election Day 2018. The rowing session was 10,000 meters with target heart rate zone. The boundaries for the target zone were “zones one and two, of five heart rate zones” which for me were 138 and 150 BPM.
This earlier blog post shows the zones which are referred to in the previous paragraph: Reaching For The Sweet Spot With A Steady Heart
The approach to entering the target zone was a gradual one.
A screen recording of the session is available for rowing-along-with at the following link: Indoor Rowing Before Voting 11062018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was online with a rower who was in England and another who was in Switzerland. The total distance was 10,000 meters and we each rowed at different paces. There was no competition nor pacing of each other during the session, but the virtual company of two other rowers was nonetheless a great incentive to keep rowing.
A screen recording was made for rowing-along-with. It is being uploaded now and it will be active at the following link: Indoor Rowing 10K Online with England and Switzerland 11042018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s indoor rowing session was 10K done online with about a dozen others. Not all of them showed up and not all of them kept connected to the server through the entire 10K, but most of them finished okay. After the 10K, there was a 10 minute warm down.
The entire session including warm down was screen-recorded and is on YouTube for row-along at: Indoor Rowing Online 10K and warmdown 11032018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was 10K done with a HR target zone of 138-150. Instead of pushing to get HR immediately into the zone at the beginning, I rowed at what used to be an easy pace, according to my own subjective perceived effort. It felt harder today, so this session is categorized as Medium Workout.
For those who would like to row-along with this session, a screen recording is now uploading and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing Drifting Into Heart Zone 11012018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was another 10K. With a heart rate target zone. At the beginning, I felt a bit tired and decided to use the first 3K as a warmup instead of ramping up immediately to get into the target zone of 138-150 BPM.
After the first 3K I decided to continue the slower pace and see how it went. I’m not sure if I was tired or if the particular music playlist I chose to listen to through earphones was a drag. I didn’t care for any of the music, so it may have at least been a contributing factor.
Whatever the underlying reason, every stroke was accompanied with reluctance and inertia and required extra willpower to do. Therefore today’s session is not being tagged in the category of “Fun Workout”. It did feel good and resemble “fun”, however, when it was finished.
A screen recording of the session is available for row-along at: Indoor Rowing Slow Climb To Heart Zone 10312018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was 10K with target HR zone of 138 to 150. For a few minutes during the session I was absent minded from rowing, letting my thoughts drift elsewhere. During those few minutes, HR exceeded the upper boundary.
A screen recording is uploading and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K w target HR 10302018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s is the first rowing session since earlier this same month on the 19th. This session was 10K done with a target heart rate zone of 137 to 149. The first 2K was done slowest, to serve as a warm up. After the first 2K I stopped and announced to the “viewing audience” that the warmup was over.
A screen recording is being uploaded and will be available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K with heart rate zone 10292018
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s session was another 10K done with target heart rate zone. The target zone was 133 to 150 BPM.
An article I saw recently mentioned that sustained aerobic exercise literally “cleans the brain,” as I may have mentioned recently in another blog post. So today’s rowing session could be considered a routine brain cleaning, from that perspective.
A screen recording was made and will become available later today at this link: Indoor Rowing 10K No Warmup 10192018
Happy rowing to you.