Today’s training session was 4x1500m within a distance of 10K. Warmup/down meters totaled another 1,250 meters. The session details asked for high mental effort which would have resulted in smoother graph results. But I was focused more on the TV, so my results were quite sloppy today, though I did manage to keep the stroke rating within the guidelines of 18-22.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session of indoor rowing was to do three 200 meter intervals within a distance of 8K. It was patterned as 3x200r1000 and you can see and read more of the details in the first image below.
Before the rowing session, I did another session of strength training with the pushups program. Results for that are shown on the bottom line of the last image below.
The strength-training pushups results are on the bottom line below:
Happy rowing to you.
Judging by the descriptive details for today’s rowing session, it seems that it was supposed to be a hard session. But it was another case of contradiction between the description and the heart rate zone boundaries. The HR zone boundaries could only be complied with by rowing easy. I didn’t totally stay within the HR zones where applicable (no HR zones for the two 500 meter sprints) but mostly did.
The pattern for today’s session was 2x500r750 done within a total distance of 10K. There was another 2,750 meters of warmup/down.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session was a 3x200r1000 within 6K. Warmup and warmdown meters of 4K brought the day’s total to 10K mostly very easy meters.
There was also another strength-training pushups session done, the results of which will be on the bottom line of the last image posted today.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s RowPro-scheduled training session was 6K designated as a time trial.
A time trial is supposed to be done as a race, as fast as humanly possible. I wasn’t in the mood for a solo race today, so I eased back on the pace, to vigorous but definitely less than race pace and alternated each 1,000 meters between that and a slow and easy pace.
It was fun and still felt like a healthy bit of rowing.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s fun in rowing was supposed to be an attempt at the April 2017 C2CTC challenge. But it seems that I started out too fast. It was composed of 7 short intervals of 177, 177, 177, 777, 177, 177 and 177 meters with 7 minutes total rest arranged anyway a person wanted to divide it up between the intervals. But I guess I did the first 3 of the 177 meter intervals too fast, because I started to have trouble in the middle interval of 777 meters and had to slow way down. So the whole session was spoiled and far from optimal but I finished it anyway. Maybe I’ll try doing it again sometime this month. (A person can do it over as many times as desired during the month but can only make one official entry which would be the best one from among the multiple attempts).
When I went to the C2CTC site to record the results, I discovered that they had changed the challenge from the seven intervals described above, to doing one round of the “Fish game” on the PM. Oh well. Maybe I’ll try doing the Fish Game tomorrow.
I also did a training session but first, here is the data and screen shots for the C2CTC attempt (which was done in vain…):
Now, for the images and data of the training session, which was 2x100m within a total session distance of 2K.
Happy rowing to you.
Definition of laid-back |ˌlādˈbak| adjective, informal: relaxed and easygoing.
Today’s training session was a laid-back “recovery” session, 6K distance. There was a 2K warmup and 2K warm down. Before the rowing, there was a strength-training push-ups session which will be listed at the end of this post.
The strength-training session results for today are on the bottom line:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing training session was two 500 meter intervals done at a low rating. That was about it, except for the rest of the distance which was the remainder of 6000 meters, all done at an easy effort level. There was a total of 4,000 meters for warmup + warm down.
Happy rowing to you.
Yesterday and the day before were each 6K recovery sessions. Today was a recovery session also but it was even shorter, at 5K, so perhaps it could be called a recovery from recovery. Tomorrow will be a little bit of hard rowing, but not much.
There was also a push-ups strength training session today, which will be featured after the rowing data.
The pushups results are on the bottom line below. I came up a lot shorter on the sets where actual was less than goal, because today I only took the specified 60 seconds rest between sets.
Happy rowing to you.
Heart rate readout has returned!
This morning I was looking into the possibility of either replacing the PM3 with a PM5. Or getting a new heart strap. Or even the possibility of doing both. Before making a decision regarding those choices, I re-visited the rowing machine, unplugged all three cables (USB cable to desktop computer which runs RowPro, cable connecting PM3 to rowing machine’s Power Generator Assembly and the cable connecting the PM3 to the heart rate signal receiver). After looking at the plugs of all three cables, I plugged them back into the PM3.
Also, I removed and checked the heart rate receiver, which is mounted under the rowing machine rail. Then I re-placed the heart rate receiver back to its location under the rail.
After that, I donned one of the 2 heartstraps and got a heart rate readout. Then, I switched to the other heartstrap and also got a readout from that one.
So though I don’t know why there was no readout yesterday, the problem seems to have been cured.
Today’s training session was an easy 6K with an additional warmup and warmdown totalling another 4K. Same as yesterday, but it was done with more enthusiasm with HR readout on screen.
Happy rowing to you.