Ethereal Rowing – Page 45

Afib Truly Woke Me

This is a graph of this morning’s heart rate samples, taken every few minutes by the Apple Watch. You can see that at about 5 AM heart rate spiked a bit and stayed elevated from 5 AM until this screenshot was taken at about 9 AM. HR returned to normal sometime before noon.

There is no HRV analysis reading for this morning because I was having a bit of Afib at the time the HRV reading should have been taken. Afib during an HRV reading skews the reading and basically makes it worthless. So the EliteHRV app was skipped for today and instead I savored and drank black coffee.

The Afib started early this morning after I woke for a bathroom call at about 0500 and returned to bed. So… rather than lay awake, I got up. Sleep had been good until then but total sleep was a little short, at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Sleep was good and without interruptions from about 11 PM to 5 AM.

I felt okay, so I assumed the HRV reading would have been a “GO” for doing any workout. The goal for today’s aerobic activity was to burn 800 calories. The goal was reached with 3 sessions on the SkiErg and one on the rowing machine.

From first to last they were (1st): A 99 calorie warmup on SkiErg at RPE Level 3, (2nd): 1K on SkiErg at RPE Level 5 (3rd): 2K on SkiErg at RPE Level 6, (4th) 540 calories in 8,995 meters on rowing machine at RPE Level 5.

A screen recording for those who’d like to row-along was made of the rowing session and it is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 540 Calories 01232019

Summary data and chart for the SkiErg warmup.

Summary data and chart for the 1,000 meter session on SkiErg

Summary data and chart for 2,000 meter session on SkiErg

Finish screen for 540 Calorie session on rowing machine.

Report for main calorie session on rowing machine.

RowPro graphs for main calorie session on rowing machine.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for main calorie session on rowing machine.

Happy rowing to you!

Tingly All Over

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading didn’t seem to have been dampened at all by yesterday’s workout and it even improved over yesterday’s.

Last night’s sleep was good, though a little short at 6 hours 35 minutes and with two brief interruptions.

After today’s aerobic workouts I felt tingly, all over. It’s a good feeling.

Today’s rowing was a preset distance of 13,400 meters. That distance was chosen based on the distance rowed yesterday to reach 800 calories. That was the main workout and it was done at RPE Level 6. It was followed by another attempt at doing a 500 meter sprint on the SkiErg, which was done at RPE Level 10. Lastly there was a 2 minute warmdown at RPE Level 1.

Screen recordings of each were made for those who’d like to row or SkiErg-along with either of them. The 13,400 meter indoor row is at this link:Indoor Rowing 13400 meters 01222019 and the 500 meter SkiErg sprint is at this link: Indoor Skiing 500 meters 01222019

Finish screen – today’s 13,400 meter session.

RowPro graphs- today’s 13,400 meter session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart- today’s 13,400 meter session.

Finish screen-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Report-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

RowPro graphs-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Concept 2 online logbook chart-today’s 500 meter sprint on SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!

800 Calories Was Just Dandy

Today’s EliteHRV morning readiness analysis was good again.

Last night’s sleep was a little short at 6 hours 10 minutes, but it was good sleep with no insomnia interruption.

Today’s main session was rowing until arriving at a total of 800 calories, done at RPE level 7. The main session is available as a screen recording for those who’d like to row-along. It’s link on YouTube is: Indoor Rowing 800 Calories 01212019

The Concept 2 rowing machine is an ergometer and it accurately measures work. It registered 800 calories for the main rowing session today, but the **Apple Watch**, which independently logged the workout as a rowing session, shows quite a few less calories than the Concept 2 ergometer. So don’t rely on the Apple Watch calorie count if you do a rowing workout.

Today’s second of three sessions was another attempt on the SkiErg to do a one minute sprint. The sprint was done at RPE level 9 and it was a better result than yesterday’s because I didn’t start out too fast and was able to maintain the pace for the entire minute. The third and last session today was going to be another attempt at a 500 meter sprint on the SkiErg, but I started out too fast or didn’t have a suitable drag factor setting (or perhaps I was too tired??), so I let that “sprint” fade into a warm down and the resulting RPE for the 500 meters was Level 4.

Report for 800 calorie rowing at RPE level 7.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for 800 calorie rowing.

There is no report or graph for the 100 meter sprint on SkiErg because it wasn’t done with RowPro but above is a screenshot of the summary data.

The final session for the day was 500 meters on the SkiErg which started out as an attempt to improve the previous, ranked result. But I started out too fast to maintain it so let it fade into a warm down. Heart rate fade lagged behind the fade of effort level.

Happy rowing to you.

1,153 Assorted Calories

Today’s HRV Morning Readiness analysis was good, so rowing was okay to do. Of course, it has been good for several days WITHOUT having done any rowing on those days… but today some rowing was actually done!

Today’s main workout was an aerobic row of 19,384 meters. It was at RPE level 2. It was followed by a first time attempt at a one minute sprint on the SkiErg, at what started out at RPE level 10 and faded. That was followed by 500 meters on the SkiErg at RPE level 5, to serve as a warm down for a warm down. Lastly, there was a SkiErg final warm down of about two minutes at RPE level 1.

A screen recording was made of the main aerobic rowing session and I will post the live link here: Indoor Rowing 1100 calories 01202019

Last night’s sleep had a bit of insomnia but total sleep was good at 7 hours 50 minutes

Finish screen for today’s rowing session of 19,384 meters. It started out as a full marathon in case I felt inclined to go that distance.

RowPro report for today’s main session. The finish screen at the time the RowPro session was stopped showed 1,100 calories. This report shows 1,097 calories. The Concept 2 logbook shows 1,095 calories. What’s a few calories, among friends?

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s main session.

Chart for today’s first time ever 1 minute sprint attempt on SkiErg. You can see that though my effort level faded, heart rate did not fade with the fading effort level.

After the 1 minute SkiErg sprint I did two warmdowns. This was the first warm down, 500 meters on the SkiErg at RPE level 5.

:This was the final warm down: two minutes on the SkiErg at an RPE 1 effort level that allowed heart rate to slow down.

Happy rowing to you!

Oiled The Chain

This is the kind of oil recommended by Concept 2 for occasional oiling of the chain on the rowing machine.

Today there was no rowing or SkiErg session, but I did oil the chain on the Concept 2 rowing machine. It doesn’t need to be done very often.

Today’s HRV morning readiness score continued to be good.

Last night’s sleep made up for the previous night’s insomnia, at 8 hours and 55 minutes logged.

Happy rowing to you.

Yesterday 400 Meters, Today 400 Less Than Yesterday

That’s right – yesterday I only worked out for 400 meters. It was, however, at RPE level 10. The 400 meters yesterday consisted of four 100 meter sprints on the Concept 2 SkiErg. Summary screenshot below:

Of the four 100 meter sessions, the lastest was the fastest at 22.8 seconds, so I included it in the Concept 2 Online Logbook World Rankings for 100 meters on a SkiErg. I placed second to last…

Second to last is …. better than last, but not by much!

As today’s title implies, there was no workout on rowing machine or SkiErg today. But… the daily EliteHRV readings and sleep log graphs were captured and those exciting screenshots are displayed below:

January 17, 2019 EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading

January 17th, 2019 logged 7 hours 10 minutes sleep in spite of a bout of insomnia.

Today (January 18, 2019) also had a good Morning Readiness reading.

Only logged 5 hours 20 minutes sleep on the morning of January 18th, after a longish bit of insomnia and the necessity to get out of bed with an alarm clock, to assist in keeping a doctor’s appointment for my better half.

Happy rowing to you!

A Little Of Each

Today’s workout consisted of 5,027 meters on the SkiErg followed by 5,027 meters on the rowing machine. All done indoors, of course.

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading was okay for any workout, though the HRV score wasn’t as high as yesterday’s.

The day began with a green light from EliteHRV (see above) and a good night’s rest of 7 hours 40 minutes (see below)

The first of the two workout sessions was set up to be 10K on the SkiErg. That’s what yesterday’s SkiErg session was supposed to be also, but I quit that one yesterday after about 2 miles. Today I got further with it and quit today’s 10K on the SkiErg after a little over 3 miles, logging 5,027 meters.

So for today’s rowing session, I set the rowing machine for the exact same distance, 5,027 meters to compare results. You can see from the session reports that I went a lot faster, with a lower heart rate, rowing than SkiErg-ing.

For those who like to row-along or ski-along, screen recordings are available at the following two links: Indoor SkiErg 5027 meters 01162019 and: Indoor ROWING 5027 Meters 01162019

Concept 2 Online logbook chart for SkiErg. The chart is messy with black lines because there were many false readings for strokes, with the SkiErg connected to RowPro.

Finish screen for rowing the 5,027 meter distance.

The Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s rowing session is a lot cleaner looking than the SkiErg chart because it is displaying correct data for strokes and stroke rate.

Happy rowing to you!

Water Skiing On Digital River

This morning’s EliteHRV readiness reading was good, but the most remarkable thing was the HRV score of 54. This was the first time HRV score has ever been higher than mid 40s.

Last night’s sleep was interrupted by a long stretch of insomnia from about 2:30 to about 5:00 AM. One thing I did during that insomnia was to resort to an emWave2 device and breathe following its breath pacer, which resulted in a longest-ever “meditation” of 36 minutes in a state of “coherence”. I wonder if that was a factor in getting the higher-than-ever HRV reading with EliteHRV today?

Today’s main indoor rowing session was indoor skiing on a Concept 2 SkiErg. I connected it to RowPro for the sake of logging it and getting a bigger screen display of data. Since RowPro is only designed with rowing machines = boat avatars in mind, it looked like I was rowing a boat on the digital river. Something was going on with the stroke rate not translating well to the display and instead of displaying what should have been a stroke rate in the 20s or 30s, it was all over the place and very frequently displaying a false stroke rate of over 100 SPM. But the other data looked okay.

I preset the distance to 10,000 meters on the SkiErg, but by the time I reached between 2K and 3K I was breathing hard and sweating profusely, though my average pace was a mere 3:00 minutes/500m. So I guess it will take a lot of getting used to as an unfamiliar workout for my underused upper body.

Instead of going the full distance of 10K, I stopped skiing after about 2 miles, which was 3,250 meters. Since I’m brand new to the SkiErg, I started out with the lowest possible damper setting at 0 (zero) and that was a Drag Factor of about 51 according to the PM5.

I rated both the SkiErg 3250 meters and the rowing machine 1,000 meters as each RPE 5.

After the shortened session on the SkiErg I switched to the familiar Concept 2 Model D and rowed 1,000 meters plus a 750 meter warm down.

For those who’d like to row (or ski) along, the SkiErg session screen recording is here: Indoor Skiing 3250 meters 01152019 and the 1K rowing machine session screen recording is here: Indoor Rowing 1,000 meters 01152019

The SkiErg/RowPro finish screen after skiing 3,250 meters and calling it quits.

Finish screen view for the 1,000 meter piece.

Happy rowing to you!

A Text Message Invitation To Row

Do you check your email frequently or have notifications turned on so that your phone alerts you every time you receive a new email? I don’t. Too many emails. So the only time I know there’s new email is when I log in to the email account.

A problem with that, it turned out, was that once recently when one of my training partners wanted to do a rowing session online, I didn’t see his email until too late. So I told him that it would be okay if he wanted to send a text message for any scheduled online rowing sessions, to make sure I knew about them enough in advance to say yea or nay.

Today, he took me up on that and sent a text message. (Screenshot of that text message is at the top of this post.) About 40 minutes after his text, we were online and rowing an hour session together even though we are each located somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 miles away from each other. One of the nicer “wonders” of the internet. Even though it is “virtual” company when you row online with one or more other people, it makes the session a lot more enjoyable than rowing alone.

Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis was that any kind of workout would be okay.

Plenty of sleep last night, at 7 hours 15 minutes.

So the main rowing done today was a 60 minute piece, online at a breezy pace which felt like RPE 2. A screen recording was made for those of you who’d like to have it to row-along with. It is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 60 mins online 01142019

After the 60 minute piece, I rowed a 4 minute session. Did that because I hadn’t yet rowed a 4 minute session this season and I thought it would be nice to put it in the rankings. It was done with a pace boat and a target pace of about 2:05. It felt like about RPE 4. A screen recording for rowing-along with it is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 4 minutes 01142019

Finish screen view of today’s 60 minutes online.

Finish screen view of today’s 4 minute piece.

There was only one brief moment of heart strangeness (Afib) today and it happened during the last half of the 4 minute session, where you can see a downward spike to zero in heart rate. That’s where heartbeat fluttered briefly, becoming irregular and the heart strap transmitter couldn’t provide a coherent signal to display.

Concept 2 online logbook chart of today’s 4 minute session.

Happy rowing to you!

Maybe Tomorrow

Not as good as yesterday, but still a very good EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading today.

Though HRV reading (above) was good and sleep (below) was likewise, there was no rowing done here today. 🙂

6 hours 50 minutes sleep last night seemed quite sufficient.

Happy rowing to you!