Today is the sixth day in a row of no additional salt applied to any food consumed. What had I been adding salt to, prior to September 15th? Almost anything is a fairly accurate answer. A bowl of soup or stew invariably would get more salt. Some parts of the daily salad such as the tomatoes would either have salt shaken on to them or they would be dipped in a container of salt. Like apples? I prefer the tart green apples and would slice each apple into 14 or more slices then either shake salt onto each slice or dip each slice into a container of salt. The list could go on and on.
But the current experiment is to see whether heart behavior improves if I abstain from all that delicious extra salt. The results so far are incredible.
Definition: incredible | inˈkredəb(ə)l | adjective 1 impossible to believe 2 difficult to believe; extraordinary
But as the trite saying goes, “Seeing is believing.” Since beginning the experiment I have seen none of the previous symptoms of irregular heart elevated rate. And I have felt none of the fluttery feelings that always accompanied such heart behavior.
Today’s workout started with a 200 Calorie session on the SkiErg which also served as a warm up for the rowing machine. The rowing workout was a single session of 10,000 meters with no warm down. While doing the 10,000 meters rowing session I listened to a performance one of Chopin’s compositions by using the Apple TV to play a YouTube video titled Frédéric Chopin: Piano concerto No. 1 e-minor (Olga Scheps live) . The pianist, who must have been Olga Scheps, got very involved in the music. At times she waved her arms around in the air like the branches of a tree moving in a breeze.
During all of today’s workout the heart rate display only went blank twice and both of those were during the rowing machine session. The first time heart rate display went blank was early in the rowing machine session and it happened immediately during the same moment when I burped. The second time it went blank during that rowing session was near the end, when the tempo of the Chopin piano concerto changed to become quicker as it made its finale. I hadn’t done any more burping but I picked up the rowing pace when the concerto tempo quickened and when I made that shift in pace the heart rate display briefly went blank again, for the second and last time during the rowing session. The concerto recording was about 44 minutes in duration so it finished almost a minute before the 10K rowing session but I maintained that quicker pace all the way to the 10K finish line.
Happy rowing to you!