If you read yesterday’s entry you might remember that yesterday was a not fine day 9 which was plagued with atrial fibrillation. That Afib persisted the rest of yesterday evening, all night and was still present this morning when the workout session started.
For today’s first session I decided to start with rowing instead of the SkiErg. First, I did a 3 minute rowing warmup and didn’t even bother putting on the heart strap because I could feel the heart flip-flopping around. After that warmup I donned the heart strap for the main rowing session which was an online 6,000 meters with two other people. One of them was a guy in Spain and the other was a woman in England. My heart rate display was too erratic to display most of the time and when it did make its appearance its rate was quite a bit too high for the low effort level.
After the online 6K I did an offline 4K and the heart continued to be wacky with atrial fibrillation. But at least I did a tiny bit of sweating.
I had a brief inner debate as to whether to do anything on the SkiErg because atrial fibrillation really takes all the fun out of it. I decided to do a leisurely 200 Calories on the SkiErg because the lazy part of me was too lazy to work very hard at winning the debate against a SkiErg workout.
Though the SkiErg pace was very easy, heart rate started out too high and climbed even higher for a little over 8 minutes. At about 8 minutes and 17 seconds heart rate normalized. An exclamation mark is appropriate because I was surprised!
Here’s the part relating to the “Apple Watch” tag for this blog entry: I recently got a new Apple Watch which has the capability to take an ECG measurement. Before the Before today’s workouts I used its ECG feature to see if it would agree with what I felt in the heart area (that fluttery, flippy-flop feeling which is rather annoying) and it did. It announced that I was having Atrial Fibrillation. After the SkiErg session, I used it to take another ECG reading. This time it announced the result of “Sinus Rhythm,” which is the medical jargon for normal heart rhythm.
Perhaps the additional SkiErg workout was what was needed to straighten out the heartstrings.
Happy rowing to you!