Today’s workouts were a few more Calories than yesterday, so tonight’s sleep should be a little better than last night’s.
The workouts consisted of: 10K rowing @ 2:14 pace and 177 Calories on SkiErg @ 2:25 pace.
The rowing 10K was recorded for those who’d like to row-along with it. You can find it on YouTube at: Indoor Rowing 2m14s pace 10K 07142019
Happy rowing to you!
The past 25 days since I’ve been refraining from doing any intervals or speed work have been relatively boring. There was one, isolated 30 second sprint on the SkiErg a few days ago. But other than that for the last 25 days it’s been mostly constant pace on the rowing machine and likewise on the SkiErg.
The current constant pace regimen is an experiment. I’m wondering if the frequent intervals had been a factor in episodes of “heart strangeness” (atrial fibrillation etc). Since refraining from doing any intervals, heart behavior has been 99.9% normal. Heart behavior was normal today too, but the “Heart Strangeness” category is added to this post, because the subject is being mentioned.
Rowing is fun but and maintaining a constant pace isn’t as easy as it sounds. It takes mental focus. But rowing intervals is a lot more fun. However, I will continue being patient and allow more time before including some intervals again.
Today’s workouts featured the last 10K in a series of 7 at a constant pace of 2:15. Also there was a SkiErg workout targeting 176 Calories at a constant pace of 2:26.
The rowing session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube. It is at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07132019
The next 10K will be a constant pace but at 2:14 pace. I haven’t decided yet whether to do a series of seven 10Ks at that 2:14 pace. Currently, I’m leaning toward something else instead of a series of seven 2:14 rowing sessions at constant pace.
Stay tuned…
Happy rowing to you!
*To give credit where credit is due, the shirt pictured above was found on a website called TeeShirt21. The website has quite a few other interesting shirts relating to rowing.
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Today’s workouts were two: A 10K rowing session, the 6th in a series of 7 at a pace of 2:14. Also there was a SkiErg session which had as its goal 175 Calories at a pace of 2:27.
The rowing session was recorded and placed on YouTube at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07122019
Happy rowing to you!
It’s late at night, 22:00 local time and I’m wondering how quickly this blog post can be posted. Here goes…
Today’s erg workouts were: 10K rowing at a constant average pace of 2:15. This was the 5th in a series of seven 10Ks to be done at that pace. Also there was a SkiErg session, same as yesterday’s except that one more Calorie was added to the session goal and the target pace was increased by -1 second per 500 meters.
The rowing workout was recorded and uploaded to YouTube at: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07112019
Happy rowing to you!
The time is now: 22:08. Eight minutes…
When I took a few days off from using the ergs, I thought it had only been three or four days. I was surprised, to discover that six days had passed, when workouts resumed. How did time get so slippery?
So now I’m counting the days-in-a-row of doing daily workouts. Today makes a three day streak of workouts on rowing machine and SkiErg.
Today’s rowing was another 10K, the 4th in a series of seven at a constant pace of 2:15/500 meters. The workout on the SkiErg was 173 Calories at an average pace of 2:29/500 meters.
The rowing session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube, for those who want to row-along with it. It’s YouTube address is: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07102019
Happy rowing to you!
Today is the second day back after six days off and everything worked out okay again, though heart rate was a little higher than yesterday. The rowing workout was 10,000 meters at a constant pace of 2:15. It is the third of seven in a series of rowing 10Ks at 2:15, then the pace will be increased for the next seven. The SkiErg workout today was 1 Calorie more than yesterday’s at 172 Calories and 1 second per 500 meters faster, at a pace of 2:30/500 meters.
A screen recording was made of the 10K rowing and is available for rowing-along with at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07092019
Happy rowing to you!
“Look on the bright side of things,” says my mind to itself. After being on the not so bright side of things and doing no workouts for 6 days, today’s workout showed a net performance increase. Perhaps that’s because I was so very well rested. Over-rested.
Today’s rowing workout was a 10K done at the same constant average pace as the 10K done on July 2nd. In fact, the screen recording of the July 2nd 10K was playing on a separate monitor and we both started at the same time (see photo at the top of this blog entry).
There was also a SkiErg workout done today: 171 Calories at a constant average pace of 2:31/500 meters.
Happy rowing to you!
The one percent speed in today’s workouts was a 30 second sprint done for the quarterly “SkiErg Performance Challenge”. The rest of today’s workouts consisted of about an hour of constant pace sessions.
Today’s workouts began with a SkiErg session preset to continue until I’d worked 170 Calories, at an easy constant pace of 2:32/500 meters, which was a power level of about 100 Watts. Heart rate acted strange during the SkiErg workout by suddenly shifting and remaining too high, after about 4 minutes of the 15 minute session. I finished that session, maintaining the constant easy pace until the end, then took an aspirin with a lot of water and waited a few hours before doing the second part of today’s workouts.
The second part was a 10K rowing session, the first of seven that I plan to do at a constant pace of 2:15/500 meters. That’s a power level of about 142 Watts. Heart rate was normal by the time the rowing session began and it remained normal throughout the 10,000 meters.
The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and can be found at this link: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 215 pace 07022019
The last bit of today’s workouts was the most fun, the “1% speed” part. It was 30 seconds of keeping the SkiErg at as high a pace as I could manage. It was done at an average power level of 343 Watts, but if you look at the screenshot of that 30 second sprint, you can see that my pace started out higher and faded a bit as each second ticked off.
Happy rowing to you!
The title of today’s post might be better arranged as Reluctant and Impatient. Reluctant is how I felt before starting each workout and impatient is how I felt while doing each of them. I wanted to go faster, to get them over with… but I’m continuing to exercise restraint with pacing and avoiding intervals, in the hope that by doing so it will iron out the wrinkles and smooth out heart rate behavior.
The first workout today was 169 Calories on SkiErg at 2:34 average pace. The second workout was 10K rowing at 2:16 average pace.
Happy rowing to you!
There was a long break between today’s two main workouts. The first of the two workouts was 168 Calories on the SkiErg, at a constant pace averaging 2:34/500 meters, which was a mere 96 Watts average power. But though it was low power, heart rate immediately catapulted too high for the effort by quite a bit. So I took a break afterwards, waiting for the heart strangeness to subside before doing today’s rowing. A few hours passed and it persisted, so I took an aspirin (325 grams), drank a lot of water with it, then ran a couple of errands to nearby stores.
Within a short time of perhaps about 30 minutes after taking aspirin, HR returned to normal. I finished the errands and then did the rowing. The break time between the two workouts was about five hours.
The 10K rowing workout was sixth in a series of seven, each with the goal of constant pace averaging 2:16/500 meters, which pace is an effort of about 139 Watts. Though the 139 Watt rowing work was about 45% harder and lasted about three times longer than the 96 Watt session on the SkiErg, heart rate was a whole lot lower and normal through the rowing session, compared to how it had acted during the easier SkiErg session.
The rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at: Indoor Rowing ASMR 10K at 216 pace 6th of seven 06302019
Happy rowing to you!