Flatline Heart Means Flat Food

Today’s heart strangeness influenced making a decision to avoid added salt for the remainder of today.

Today’s workouts were bothered again by heart irregularities. As a result, I decided to do only a SkiErg session of 200 Calories followed by a short rowing session to test whether heart rate would behave during rowing. It didn’t behave during rowing. Instead of acting like a proper heart, it flatlined. So I limited rowing to only that one brief, easy session of 500 meters.

The symptoms of heart strangeness today were the irregular, fluttery feeling and heart rate excessively high for the effort.

Something I’ve been wondering about is whether or not my fondness for salt is any part of the catalyst for heart irregularity. So after today’s minimalist workout, I decided to forego adding any salt to any of my food for the rest of the day.

The first and main workout today was 200 Calories on the SkiErg. Based on years of past experience wearing a heart strap, heart rate was much too high for the effort, by about 40% or more elevation in BPM. Though this HR graph does not show irregular heart beat, I could feel it feeling fluttery/abnormal during the workout.

The only rowing session today was a tiny, easy-pace 500 meters. Heart rate was too irregular to be displayed at any time, which results in recorded heart rate of zero.

Graphs for today’s 500 meter test session. The heart rate graph is flatlined because heart rate is logged as zero when it is too irregular for RowPro to display it.

Happy rowing to you!