Ethereal Rowing – Page 19

Today’s Workout Was a Pair

I did a ~~pear~~ pair of workouts today.

Today’s workouts consisted of two rowing sessions. A pair of rowing sessions, though of unequal time and distance. The first was an extremely slow, early morning 10,000 meter session done as a long warmup. The second was a moderately slow 30 minute session done online in the company of three other rowers. Only the 10K graph/data will be shown here but at this online logbook link you can see the other one if you look for the 30 minute session logged on today’s date and then click its little circle with a + sign inside it, in the column headed “Action”.

If the heart rate graph on the bottom-most screenshot looks weird, you are right. For the first 10 minutes or so, heart rate display was impossibly low on the RowPro display but normal on the wrist display. (RowPro display was from a heart strap on chest and wrist display was from a heart strap on the arm, as I’ve mentioned in a few other blog posts recently). After about 10 minutes, the RowPro heart rate display climbed up into normal range but when that happened, the wrist display, from the other heart strap on my arm, dropped to impossibly low readings. A few minutes later they both agreed with each other and they were in agreement for the remainder of the 10,000 meters. Go figure.

Finish screen view after finish of this morning’s ultra-slow 10,000 meter rowing session.

Report for today’s ultra-slow 10,000 meter early morning rowing session.

Graphs for today’s ultra-slow 10,000 meter early morning rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

Sunny and Well-Warmed

This is a photo of the Arizona sun high in the blue sky. Don’t stare at it.

Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters rowing at a steady pace averaging 2:33.6/500 meters. It was preceded by a SkiErg warmup of 200 Calories and five short, gradually increasing rowing warmups. Only the 10K is shown here. Everything else can be examined via this link to my online logbook by looking for and finding log entries made on today’s date.

Since atrial fibrillation vanished yesterday after I spent 17 minutes sunbathing, I used the same approach today: Standing shirtless in direct sunlight for 16 minutes. That was split up into 8 minutes on the chest and 8 minutes on the back. Taking some sunshine was inspired by some of what I heard in a TED Talk by a doctor (MD type) who does research and controlled studies relating to sunlight and the human skin. I will try to “embed” that TED Talk video below this paragraph.

A lot of sunlight is bad but too little sunlight can be just as bad although in other ways. A little bit of sunlight is very good.

I’m happy to report that there was no atrial fibrillation today either during the rowing or afterwards.

Finish screen view for today’s 10K rowing

Listing of the five rowing warmup sessions that immediately preceded today’s 10K.

Happy rowing to you!

Eight Workout Sessions Today

Ephemeral, ethereal light of a sunset on the Catalina mountains.

Though it has nothing to do with indoor rowing, today’s main workout was done as the sun was setting on the Catalina Mountains. The session was 10K rowing done at steady pace averaging 2:33.7/500 meters. There were also 7 shorter sessions done before today’s 10K. Their graphs and data can all be viewed at this online logbook link by looking for the entries with today’s date.

I had been having atrial fibrillation continuously for the past five days but it cleared up and heart rate returned to normal today after about 40 minutes of warmup on both SkiErg and rowing machine. There has been no atrial fibrillation since the 10,000 meter rowing session was done today.

Today was warm and brightly sunny. Before doing any of the workouts, I spent 17 minutes outdoors, shirtless, with maximum exposure to direct sunlight on front and back. A limited amount of sunlight is supposed to be beneficial to the heart. Perhaps that’s what made the difference and helped the AF to go away?

Graphs for today’s 10K. Although there was no ECG reading of atrial fibrillation just before the 10K started, it took a few minutes for the signal from the Garmin heart strap to look normal.

Graph of heart rate recovery after finish of 10K rowing session. Looks good.

Happy rowing to you.

15,968 On Today’s Date

Finish screen view of today’s 10K rowing piece.

Today’s workouts totaled 15,968 meters. Everything but a 10K rowing session was either warmup or warmdown. The day’s activity and graphs etc can all be viewed at this online logbook link by looking for the log entries done on today’s date.

The main workout was another 10K rowing session. It was done with the goal of averaging a steady pace of 2:33.8/500 meters.

Happy rowing to you!

Another Day Another Few K

Finish screen view of RowPro after the 10K rowing session.

Today’s working out consisted of a morning session of online rowing for 30 minutes, a couple short SkiErg sessions in the afternoon and a 10,000 meter rowing session. Data views for the 10K will be shown here. Data for the others done today can be viewed by going to this link for my online logbook and looking for sessions done on today’s date.

During the 10K rowing I wore two heart straps. A Garmin electric signal sensing heart strap supplied data for the RowPro software and a Scosche optical sensing heart strap supplied data for the other graph (the green-on-black graph) which you will also see here. The data from the two heart straps was usually wildly different so I don’t know if either of them was giving an accurate or relevant readout. Two independent witnesses must agree, for their testimony to be reasonably regarded as truth.

Heart rate graph for 10K session, using data from Scosche optical heart strap.

Happy rowing to you!

Hey, Why’re Hearts Haywire Sometimes?

Finish screen view of today’s 10K indoor rowing session.

I don’t know the answer to the question in today’s title. But today was another of those sometimes when the heart was haywire. Aside from that, everything was okay.

Today’s workouts consisted of two: First there was a SkiErg session of 6,003 meters to serve as a warmup. The distance of 6,003 meters was chosen because it was the exact same distance, in miles, that one of my sons ran during one of his workouts today: 3.73 miles. Graphs and data will not be shown here for the SkiErg session but they can be viewed via this: link to my online logbook if you look for the SkiErg session that was done on today’s date.

The main workout today was 10,000 meters indoor rowing at a steady average pace of 2:34.0/500m. The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording for those of you who would like to row-along or race with it. It can be found on YouTube at this link: “Indoor Rowing 10K at 2min 34sec/500 meters 01292020”

Today, like yesterday, I wore two heart straps and there is a heart rate graph for data from each of those heart straps. The two graphs look very different from each other, so I don’t know if either of them has accurate heart rate data. I was having atrial fibrillation during the rowing session, so that’s probably the general cause for the disagreement between the two heart straps.

RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session. The heart rate data for this graph came from a Garmin chest strap.

A Scosche heart rate arm strap supplied the data for this graph of heart rate during today’s 10K rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

Heart’s Haywire Charts

Finish screen view at the moment after completing the first 10,000 meter rowing session.

Today’s workout time consisted of an online 10,000 meter rowing session in the morning and an offline 10,000 meter rowing session in the afternoon.

The morning 10K was done at a steady average pace of 2:34.2/500 meters and the afternoon 10K was done at a steady average pace of 2:34.1/500 meters. There was also a 1K rowing warmup and a 1K rowing warmdown in the morning and a 56 Calorie SkiErg warmup in the afternoon. They and their interactive charts and data can all be viewed in at this link: in my online logbook. The only data and screenshots shown here will be for the two 10K rowing sessions.

The heart behaved in a rather haywire fashion in both of the 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

There were two heart straps used, simultaneously, during each of the two 10,000 meter rowing sessions. A Garmin heart strap was worn on the chest and supplied data for the RowPro graphs. The other graphs used data from a Scosche heart strap worn on the arm. The heartbeat signal appeared to be doing one thing in the chest and something a bit different in the arm.

I was having atrial fibrillation before, during and after each of the 10K rowing sessions.

Report for the first of two 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

RowPro graphs for the first of two 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

Scosche heart strap data heart graph for the first of two 10K rowing sessions. Notice that this graph, though it is of the same session as the RowPro graphs above, does not look like it was the same heart in the same session.

Finish screen view at the moment after completing the second of two 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

Report for the second 10,000 meter rowing session.

Graphs using Garmin heart strap data, for the second of two 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

Graphs using Scosche heart strap data, for the second of two 10,000 meter rowing sessions.

Happy rowing to you!

Two Heart Straps, One Rational Reading

Finish screen view of today’s 10,000 meter rowing session. Notice how irrationally, unrealistically low, at 40 BPM, was the heart rate displayed from the chest heart strap at the moment the 10K was completed.

Today’s main workout was 10,000 meters rowing with the goal being to row at steady pace averaging 2:34.3/500 meters.

There were two heart straps worn, each with its own receiver providing a heart rate graph. The Garmin chest strap provided intermittent readings and they were all irrationally low. The Scosche heart strap, which was located on an arm, gave continuous, reasonable, rational readings. You can see their two graphs below. (The RowPro graph is from the Garmin heart strap.) There were a few SkiErg sessions done as warmup. If anyone wants to see their graphs & data, they are viewable via this link to my: online logbook.

RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing. The “End HR” column shows heart rate from the Garmin chest strap at the end of each of the twenty 500 meter splits of the 10K session. Even though I was rowing at a very low effort level, my heart rate is never that low when rowing at any speed.

RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.

The data on this heart rate graph is from the Scosche heart strap which was worn on the arm. Its heart rate data seems totally normal.

Happy rowing to you!

Happy To Be Normal Again

Screenshot of the finish of today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.

Like yesterday, today’s heart rate & rhythm were happily normal.

Today’s workouts consisted of 10,000 meters rowing, which was the main part. There were also a half dozen or so short and easy sessions on the SkiErg. This blog post will only show information about the rowing session. Graphs and data about everything else can be viewed in my public log at this link.

Happy rowing to you!

Is Normal Heart Rate Just a Phase?

Though I haven’t posted about it for a couple of days, I’ve been continuing with doing workouts daily. The workouts done (and their graphs) during the days when nothing was posted to this blog can be viewed in my online logbook via this link.

Heart rate was busy with atrial fibrillation during those days which had no blog entries. But TODAY the heart was and still is acting NORMAL! Hooray!

I’m starting to wonder, though, if acting normal is “just a phase?”

Today’s workout activity was more “detraining,” which is to say that it was done at a very low level of effort. If you have read the relevant earlier posts in which I mentioned the book titled “The Haywire Heart” then you know that one of the possible solutions to rid oneself of atrial fibrillation is to “detrain,” which theoretically might reverse or allow to heal whatever damage was done to the heart with excessive training which caused the atrial fibrillation.

Today’s workouts consisted of five sessions of 50 calories each on the SkiErg and those served as a warmup for the rowing session. The rowing session was 10,000 meters at a steady pace with the goal being to average a pace of 2:34.5/500 meters.

Happy rowing to you!