There were five workout sessions today. But – and this is a big but – today there was atrial fibrillation. As a result of the AF, today’s sessions were low energy. Those that have heart rate graphs have sloppy heart rate graphs.
But – and this is another big but- at least I spent time doing some working out. Studies have shown that exercise is beneficial to those who have atrial fibrillation, as long as the exercise isn’t excessive.
Sorry – the definition of “excessive” is not provided. None of them felt at all excessive, to me…
Screen shots here relate to only one of today’s 5 workouts, a 10K rowing session.
Data and graphs can be seen for all of today’s sessions via this link to my online logbook. To see a session’s data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the particular session.
Finish screen view for today’s 10K rowing session.
Today’s workout time was divided among ten sessions. The day started out with no atrial fibrillation and the first 7 workout sessions were with normal heart behavior. During the eighth session, atrial fibrillation started and it has continued from then until now as this is being written.
Atrial fibrillation comes and goes. I like it best when it goes.
Data and graphs can be seen for today’s sessions via this link to my online logbook. To see a session’s data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the particular session.
Screenshot showing summary list of today’s workouts.
Calories, simply put, can be expressed as amounts of heat.
There hasn’t been a new post here for three days. Today, yesterday and the day before yesterday is what today’s blog post is about but it won’t be very wordy.
The total number of workout sessions during the past three days was 18. Those 18 burned a total of about 2,885 Calories, which is about what is usually burned by the average person who runs a marathon. The total distance was actually longer than a marathon at 53,766 total meters (33.41 total miles) but it’s far easier to do 18 separate, slow-paced workout sessions which are spread out over three days than it is to run a marathon as one single continuous activity.
Good news regarding atrial fibrillation: There was none of it today and therefore the sessions which also have heart rate graphs have nice looking plots.
Data and graphs can be seen for all the sessions, if interested, via this link to my online logbook. To see a session’s data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the particular session.
This screenshot shows a list of workout sessions done since the previous blog post.
The symbolism of this image is that the boy with binoculars represents me watching the readout of my heart rate and the rhinoceros on a tightrope represents the balancing act of keeping heart rate a little bit above 100 BPM.
Today’s workout activity consisted of a couple SkiErg sessions for warming up, followed by a little over 2,000 meters for more warmup.
But wait, that’s not all! The main workout was 10,000 meters rowing. The goal during the 10K was to keep close watch on heart rate and adjust effort level to maintain heart rate balanced at a little more than 100 beats per minute.
Heart behaved well and was in its normal BPM range for the effort level. The only screen shots displayed here are for today’s 10K.
Data and graphs can be seen for all the sessions, if interested, via this link to my online logbook. To see a session’s data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Today was a good day for doing another test with the Garmin heart strap because there was no atrial fibrillation to mess with it’s heart rate tracking algorithm. Before wrapping on the heart strap I did a 25 minute warm up session. After that warm up session, the surface of the skin was conductive enough that no additional moisture was needed for the heart strap.
Atrial fibrillation seemed to be trying to kick in now and then during some of the other sessions. Altogether there were eight sessions done today including the one for which screen shots are displayed in this blog post.
Data and graphs can be seen for any of them, if interested, via this link to my online logbook. They are the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see a session’s data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Finish screen for a 30 minute online session. This was one of two online sessions rowed today.
These primitive boats don’t have anything to do with today’s workouts but I thought they looked cool.
Today’s rowing was done in the late afternoon. There were three rowing sessions. The one with the best HR graph will be shown here. All the rest can be seen, if interested, via this link to my online logbook. They are the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Today’s blog post is not very exciting. Not that any of them are… but I just now nodded off while sitting in the chair prepared to type. 🙂
Finish screen view for one of the rowing sessions done today, a 5K.
Report for one of the rowing sessions done today, a 5K.
Graphs for one of the rowing sessions done today, a 5K.
Today’s main session was a 10K piece done at steady pace with the goal of averaging 2:33.2/500m. There were three other sessions also done today. Altogether, a total of fore four sessions today. Only the 10K is shown here but that and all session graphs and data are available via this link to my online logbook. They are the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Because I’ve been getting so many “impossibly low” heart rate graphs recently from the Garmin heart strap worn on the chest, I was thinking about discarding it. But I decided to first try and see how a different chest heart strap would work. So I used a Polar chest heart strap instead of the Garmin today.
The results from the reliable Polar heart strap were just as nutty as from the nutty Garmin heart strap. So maybe the Garmin heart strap isn’t nutty, after all. I hereby apologize to Garmin for that mistaken jump to a conclusion. Average heart rate for data logged with each of the 1,438 strokes of today’s 10K was 28.8059805285118 (to the nearest trillionth or so). . . . according to the average generated by the spreadsheet. Of course, some of the heart rate data logged for each stroke of the 10K was when my heart (according to the heart strap) was flat-lining at 0. I don’t think it was really zero because I don’t remember any out-of-body, feel-sort-of-dead moments during the 10K. So the weird heart rate displays from Garmin AND Polar heart straps must be due to a heart that is weird and/or nutty. I’ve been having atrial fibrillation today. Call it weird, nutty or whatever you like but you can’t call atrial fibrillation “normal”. Guess the Afib has the heart-strap algorithm flummoxed.
There were two heart straps worn today, as I’ve been doing for a while. The other one was the Scosche with its optical sensor. Usually, the Scoshe heart strap gives a sensible reading. But today, though the Scoshe heart strap never displayed “zero” heart rate, it did consistently display “impossibly” low heart rate, except right at the beginning of the 10K. At the very beginning of the 10K before I started rowing, the Scosche displayed a heart rate of 113 BPM. That was my resting heart rate with atrial fibrillation. But right after I started rowing, the Scosche acted the same as the chest heart strap and displayed heart rate that was about normal resting rate or even lower.
I’m not going to even pretend that I understand the why for the strange heart rate readings, except I’m fairly sure it has something to do with atrial fibrillation.
Finish screen view for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
Graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Scosche heart strap data graphed for today’s 10K rowing session.
Before today’s main workout session I drank about three pints of water in the form of protein drinks and water to rinse the remnants of protein drinks out of the protein drink-shaker. There was also a pint or more of coffee. And some dry cereal with a bowlful of milk. Lots of water.
Oh yes, there was also about 8 ounces of water in a chia drink. A few rowing sessions before and after coffee and cereal. Then the protein drink and then a half marathon rowing. I must have made six nature calls during the half marathon in order to deal with the excess liquid. But that was okay because I was going for the distance, not speed.
There was on-and-off atrial fibrillation during the half marathon so don’t pay too much attention to the crazy heart rate graph that resulted from the confusing signals the heart strap had trouble sorting out.
Only screenshots for the half marathon will be posted here. That and all session graphs and data are available via this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs you click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Finish screen view for today’s half marathon distance.
Today’s main rowing was a 30 minute session. There were seven other sessions today also, thus today’s title. But this blog post will only feature screenshots for the “main” session of the day, which was the one with the most meters.
All session graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with the date of the respective sessions. To see their data & graphs you click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
Finish screen for today’s 6,105 meter 30 minute rowing session.
Report for today’s 6,105 meter 30 minute rowing session.
Graphs for today’s 6,105 meter 30 minute rowing session.
Today was longish in meters rowed and Skied. Mostly rowing was the longest, with a marathon distance being done today in the leisurely time of about 4 hours. Rowing was followed with a 50 Calorie warm down session on the SkiErg.
Finish screen view for today’s marathon rowing session.
Their graphs and data are available at this link to my online logbook. They will be the log entries with the date of today’s sessions. To see their data & graphs you click the corresponding “+” sign in the “Action” column for the session you want to see.
RowPro report for today’s marathon rowing session.
RowPro graophs for today’s marathon rowing session. The Garmin heart strap was acting strangely again today.
