Today is the second day without salt. The above image is the same one displayed on the Sept 15th blog post because Sept 15th is the day I stopped adding additional salt to any food.
Today is the second day without any added salt. I’m holding tightly to skepticism regarding whether the abundant salt I’ve enjoyed adding to my food has been any significant factor in the too-frequent episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
It has also been two days in a row without any all-night occurrences of the fluttery behavior, but far be it from me to rush to judge salt as bearing any guilt whatsoever in leading my heart astray.
Today’s workouts weren’t much. A SkiErg session of 200 Calories at an easy average pace of 2:31/500m. The last 100 Calories included five moderate 10 Calorie intervals that were each done at about 2:20/500m. Smooth going for the heart with no irregularities or abnormal heart rate. The rowing session that followed was a very tiny one due to time constraints of the day’s other scheduled activities. It was only 500 meters at a moderate pace. But unlike the 500 meter session of two days ago when heart rate was so wild that it wouldn’t even register for a heart graph, heart rate and rhythm was normal and painted a normal graph within normal range for the effort.
Chart and data for today’s SkiErg session.
Finish screen for today’s 500 meter rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s 500 meter rowing session
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.
This photo was found on a blog with the appropriate name Evidence of Things Unseen.
This morning I decided to take a one day vacation from the daily workout. It was a working vacation or perhaps it could be called a working out vacation. Instead of the recently usual 200C SkiErg and 10,000 meters rowing, I limited it to 250 Calories on the SkiErg and four very short, brief and easy rowing pieces. You can see how short, brief and easy they were from their screenshots below.
Strange as it may seem, there was no heart strangeness (aka Afib) today. Atrial fibrillation is evidence of something unseen in the region of the heart. The above photo seemed in tune with that thought and it was found on a website called Evidence of Things Unseen.
One of the valuable benefits from working out is sweating and what happens when you sweat. There was a tiny bit of sweat today but not enough to warrant taking a shower. So I acted as though I was allergic to water and skipped the shower.
But later in the day I worked outside where the temperature was about 90° Fahrenheit and there was as much sweating as if I’d rowed a respectably paced 10K. So I turned away from the water allergy and took a shower.
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A listing of today’s abbreviated workout session activities.
Today’s first activity was 250 Calories on the SkiErg, with almost 100% easy effort and virtually no extreme effort.
Today’s second activity was this 100 meter rowing piece.
Today’s 3rd activity was this 250 meter rowing piece.
Today’s 4th activity was this 500 meter rowing bit.
The last of today’s abbreviated workout tidbits was this 4 minute rowing piece.
Today’s workouts were hampered by irregular heart rhythm and too-high heart rate. It started yesterday evening, persisted all night and through this morning’s workout. Yesterday there was no coffee consumed at all, so coffee wasn’t the problem.
During the SkiErg session heart rate was a bit irregular and 30 to 40 BPM too high for the effort level, from beginning to end. During the rowing session heart rate became more irregular and remained too high for the effort level.
After today’s workouts I had breakfast with coffee and the heart’s behavior returned to normal. Perhaps it needs coffee.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.
Due to sleep issues involving sleep disruption between midnight and dawn, I got in some early morning reading today. Went back to bed after dawn and slept in very late. Today’s workout was very late also but the daily dosage was done.
Today’s first workout was 200 Calories on the SkiErg. That was followed by a 100 meters easy test row. The 100 meter rowing session didn’t appear in RowPro’s online logbook so I did another short test row of 500 meters. The second test row appeared in RowPro’s online logbook and it brought the 100 meter results with it. So I uploaded both of those to Concept 2 and then set up a 10,000 meter rowing session.
The 10K rowing session was interrupted after a little over 4,000 meters so I set up another rowing session which made up the balance of the 10K for today.
Listing of all of today’s workouts.
Finish screen for the 4148 meters rowing which was the most enjoyable part of today’s workouts.
Today’s awakening was after only 5 hours 35 minutes sleep. But that was okay because I’d been sleeping a bit too much and this balances things out.
The first of two workouts was on the SkiErg targeting 200 Calories. The second was on the rowing machine targeting 10,000 meters.
The graphs tell the main story for today’s workouts. Near the end of the SkiErg session, heart transitioned from regular and normal rate to irregular and a bit too high. It remained a bit irregular and a bit too high throughout the rowing session, but not problematically so.
Finish screen for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10,000 meter rowing session.
Glutathione in your body acts like many little Pac Men working on your behalf to gobble up toxins.
Detours and excuses abound, to avoid working out.
Entertain some rational consideration of any one of the benefits of working out, however, and you can gain some motivation to detour the detours.
Today’s featured motivation is something you can either pay about $20 an ounce for or which you can get for free if you workout. It is called glutathione.
One doctor whom I heard mention glutathione recently said that glutathione in your body acts like a Pac Man which gobbles up toxins.
Xlnt! A new motivation to add to the list of good reasons for working out!
In other words (if you don’t know what “xlnt” means), “Excellent!”
Funny that I’ve never before thought of Pac Man as anything other than one of the first and most wildly popular of early video games.
You can buy glutathione supplement at places like Results RNA website which features bottles of it like the one pictured below, for either about $40 or $75 for the 2 or 4 ounce bottles. But why buy it? How do you know that spraying it in the mouth is an effective way to boost glutathione? I’d rather have it made “in-house” in my own body. Of course for some people who are perhaps bedridden or for some other reason not able to workout, it might be worth considering. My personal opinion is that personally manufactured glutathione probably works best of all. (I have no affiliation with the “Results RNA” website and can’t say anything pro or con regarding their products.)
Today’s workouts were hampered to a degree by annoying heart behavior. They consisted of a 200 Calorie SkiErg session and a 10K rowing session. Each of the workouts caused some sweating and generated new Pac-Men to gobble up toxins.
The heart rate graphs for the 10K rowing are very messy looking because heart rate was so irregular that the Polar Heart Strap transmitter and Concept 2 PM3-mounted heart rate signal receiver had a difficult time figuring out what to display. Heart straps on the chest tend to be more accurate than wrist-mounted heart rate detectors but the Apple Watch seemed to have an easier time keeping track of heart rate than the Polar Heart Strap did today. Perhaps it was something to do with the irregular heartbeat.
Today’s SkiErg session stuff.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro report for today’s 10K rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing. It didn’t seem to matter what effort level I rowed. If I rowed moderately or a lot easier, heart rate remained in the 140 to 150 BPM range which was too high for either effort level.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K rowing.
Screen shot of Apple Watch’s heart rate graph display for 10K rowing session.
When I looked for confirmation about sweating removing toxins, I found something about it on this website at mindbodygreen.com
Sweating is very helpful in removing toxins from the human body. Cool. Another good reason to row.
While I didn’t first learn about sweat removing toxins from the mindbodygreen.com article or the doctor pictured above, it was another doctor from whom I first heard it.
Enduring exercise at a level that will promote at least a little bit of sweating is easier if a person is aware of the immediate benefits.
A verse in the Bible says “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread.” I’m paraphrasing it. That’s not an exact quote from any particular translation of the Bible.
The particular verse, if you’d like to look it up in your favorite translation of the Bible, is Genesis 3:19.
It (Genesis 3:19) seemed like it might be a curse or punishment, the first time I read it. But I changed my mind about it a long time ago and decided it was just a health and lifestyle recommendation from the Good Doctor of doctors.
The fact that sweating removes nasty toxins like heavy metals from our bodies is more confirmation that it is good advice from our Creator.
Of course if sweat removes toxins then it follows that taking a shower after sweating is a good thing to do, to help wash the toxins off the body.
Unless you are allergic to water.
That would be a serious problem, to have an allergy to water.
Today’s sweat-generating workouts each produced a little sweat. First there was a 200 Calorie SkiErg session. That was followed by setting up the rowing machine for 10,000 meters and rowing 1,022 meters and stopping. I stopped, because that annoying heart behavior was happening again. Heart rate irregular and much too fast for the effort level. So I took an aspirin break, ate something & drank water, then returned and rowed a 9,000 meter session. That was all for today.
Yes, I took a shower afterward. 🙂
Heart strangeness first appeared in the last part of the SkiErg session.
Report for what was supposed to be 10,000 meters but which was only 1,022 meters due to an aspirin break.
RowPro graph for the 1,022 meters.
Report for the 9,000 meter session. Notice that heart rate is abnormally high at the end of each of the nine splits.
RowPro graph for the 9,000 meter session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for the 9,000 meter session.
During the 9,000 meter session when heart rate was visible it reached 210 BPM a few times on the RowPro display. This Apple Watch view of its independent record of heart rate during the 9K confirms the new high of 210 BPM.
