Interference of a Different Sort

This morning’s Red Light meant STOP- don’t do a workout.

Yesterday, the problem was insomnia. Today, the problem was the extremely low “Morning Readiness” reading from the EliteHRV app when it measured heart rate variability. So I didn’t row today.

The EliteHRV app counted 43 “artifacts” and even though it supposedly corrected for them, the result was still a very poor reading.

The problem causing the extremely poor reading was probably due to a bout of irregular heartbeat as you can see displayed in the EliteHRV graph above.

This is a much better reading. It was taken a lot later in the day, after a nap and after heartbeat had returned to normal.

I deleted that EliteHRV reading, had breakfast, skipped having any coffee and took some aspirin. Then I took a long nap. After the nap, I took another reading with EliteHRV and this time it was a good score. But it was too late in the day to do any rowing.

Happy rowing to you!