EliteHRV – Ethereal Rowing

A Green Lit 10K

Today’s EliteHRV analysis was better than yesterday’s and it was green, so I did a bit longer workouts, each at a bit brisker pace than what was done yesterday. The main workout was rowing 10K with a 2:10 pace boat, aiming to stay ahead of the pace boat. There was occasional Afib sputtering of the cardio engine during the 10K but it never persisted and was flutter-free smooth-running for most of the time. You can see the times when the ticker got irregular and fluttered with atrial fibrillation, in the RowPro graph of the rowing session where the vertical spikes to zero are located. There were five of them… possibly six, if you count the very beginning, but heart rate just before the 10K started was 46 to 49 BPM, so that thing which looks like a spike right at the beginning might just be heart rate raising quickly from its low resting rate.

After the rowing, there was a 145 calorie intervals session on the SkiErg.

Today’s green 8 was better than yesterday’s yellow 5 for HRV.

Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing. The Afib spikes in heart rate are not visible in this view but are quite visible, further below, in the RowPro software graph.

Concept 2 online logbook chart and data display for today’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Cautious Day

This caution sign seemed appropriate for the top of today’s post. It was found on a website whose focus is dark matter and related stuff. A link to the website where it was found is in the text of the first paragraph below.

Today was a cautious workout day. Avoidance of atrial entropy was the reason for caution. The above image seemed appropriate as a header for today’s blog post. It was found on a website about dark matter and related stuff. Pardon my lack of precision after merely glancing at a few articles on the website, which is titled: Dark Matters a Lot

The reason for today’s caution was today’s Morning Readiness score with the EliteHRV app.

The cautious approach chosen was: Do one workout each, on SkiErg and rowing machine, but do each of them moderately without getting carried away with exuberant effort no matter how good I felt.

The SkiErg workout was done first, as a 141 Calorie session with alternating work/rest intervals of about 10 calories each. Following the SkiErg, a 30 minute rowing session was done as single combination session consisting of 2 minute warmup, four 4-minute intervals and a warm down.

Atrial entropy didn’t increase, so the two sessions must have been sufficiently moderate.

After the SkiErg session a 30 minute rowing session was done. This is a view of the finish screen for that rowing session.

Report for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

RowPro graphs for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 30 minute rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

Twenty Minutes With 4 “Bursts”

I didn’t believe today’s HRV analysis should be taken seriously, but it seems to have been correct.

Today’s workout was short but more vigorous than recommended by today’s Morning Readiness score from the EliteHRV app.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence or perhaps EliteHRV was right. In either case, an episode of atrial fibrillation happened, which put a damper on things.

So the only workout done was a 20 minute rowing session which included 4 “bursts” of a dozen or so hard strokes. The “bursts” were spaced about 4 minutes apart. The session was uploaded to YouTube, for those of you who’d like to row along with it and is available at this link: Indoor Rowing 20 minutes with 4 bursts 05092019

Finish screen for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

Report for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

RowPro graph for today’s 20 minute rowing session.

Happy rowing to you!

Intervals of Clarity

A honeybee hovering in an interval of clarity over a bird of paradise flower.

Today’s workout time was blessed with clarity. That is, there was no confusion of the heart as happened yesterday.

The main session was on the rowing machine. It was a combination of 2,000 meter warmup, three intervals of 750 meters each with 3 minutes active rest after each interval and a 1,000 meter warm down.

After the rowing workout, 132 Calories was burned on the SkiErg.

The rowing intervals session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available for those of you who’d like to row-along with it. The video is located at this link: Indoor Rowing 3X750 meters Rest 3 minutes 05052019

The heart rate variability analysis by EliteHRV this morning was a green light. Of course, yesterday’s was also a green light… so I took today’s Morning Readiness reading with a proverbial grain of salt.

Finish screen view immediately after finishing the three 750 meter intervals.

RowPro report for the three 750 meter intervals.

RowPro graph for the three 750 meter intervals.

Chart and data for today’s 132 Calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Confusion of the Heart

Today’s main rowing session was a series of twenty intervals of 20 seconds, with 4o seconds of rest after each. After completing 7 or 8 of the intervals, heart rate got a bit confused. At the very end of the session, heart rate got very confused and went up when effort went down. It seemed logical to slow down when heart rate was acting that way, so the intervals weren’t as vigorous as hoped.

The session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording and is available for anyone who’d like to row-along with it, at this link: Indoor Rowing 20X20 seconds R 40 seconds 05042019

Finish screen view for today’s intervals series.

You can see the oddest behavior of heart rate right near the end. Heart rate should have decreased when effort decreased, but instead it made a new high for the session.

The report for today’s rowing session is rather long, with a total of 40 splits for the 20 work intervals plus 20 rest intervals.

RowPro graph for today’s interval series.

Chart and data for the 131 Calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Workout At Your Computer?

Need a polynomial function solution? Get cranking!

A computer like the one in the photo above might give you a good workout, if you had a lot of polynomial functions to solve. (The above image was found in a Wikipedia article titled: Computing). But I think I will keep my Mac as main computer and use the Concept 2 ergs for my main calorie burning, heart-rate elevating workouts.

Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app is as green as a green light can get.

Today I decided to get an early start on making a blog entry, so the paragraph, title and two above images are being posted before I’ve done any workout. There will be an update later today, after the workout(s) are completed.

At the moment, the plan is to do a 30 minute series of intervals on the rowing machine and about 130 calories on the SkiErg.

It is now later in the day and some time was spent on both rowing machine and SkiErg. The main session was the rowing, which was six sets of 2 minute work/1 minute rest intervals. After that, I did a 30 second sprint on the SkiErg and then a 130 Calorie set of work/rest intervals on the SkiErg.

The rowing session was recorded and uploaded to YouTube for anyone who would like to row-along with it. It is available at this link: Indoor Rowing Six 2-Minute Intervals 05032019

Finish screen for today’s rowing workout.

RowPro graphs for today’s rowing workout.

Chart and data for the SkiErg 130 calorie session.

Happy rowing to you!

A Day Away

Today was a day away from any indoor rowing or other workout activity.

The above image was found on a website page titled “Stronger than death”-Happy Easter . It isn’t related to anything in particular regarding today’s blog entry and I only glanced at the website without reading the article. So I don’t know if the article or its website is “good,” “bad” or indifferent but the picture got my attention as being a thought-inspiring one and so the link to the webpage where it was found is provided above.

This morning’s analysis of heart rate variability gave a green light for working out, but other activities crowded out the opportunity today.

Happy rowing to you!

Sitting and Thinking

While I was changing from rowing clothes back into jeans and t-shirt, my better half walked into the room and remarked, “You worked out for a long time! Are you making up for some missed workouts?” I gazed at her and gathered my thoughts for a moment before responding, “No. It wasn’t a long workout, but I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking.”

Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability analysis wasn’t quite low enough to give me a reason for a day off.

Today’s rowing workout was 5,000 meters rowing at specific target stroke rates for each of the five 1K splits. The rating targets were 26-24-22- 24-26 Strokes Per Minute. It took a lot of mental focus. I had a dreamy attitude but the wandering thoughts and daydreaming were done before and after the 5K with its targeted strokes-per-minute for each 1K split.

After the rowing, I did a 129 Calorie session on the SkiErg, arranged in alternating splits of 10 calories work/10 calories rest.

Report for today’s 5K piece. Notice the circled column headed “Avg SPM”. The targets were met for each split except for the 4th split, which was too high at 25 instead of the target of 24 SPM.

Concept 2 logbook chart for today’s 5K piece.

Chart and data for today’s 129 calories on the SkiErg.

Happy rowing to you!

Tingling Afterglow

Cactus blossoms were glowing with sunlight this morning.

There were two workouts today. They were both interval sessions. One on the rowing machine and the other on the SkiErg. Afterwards, and now while this is being typed, I feel like I’m tingling all over with the afterglow of the intervals.

Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability analysis gave permission for any level of effort.

Today’s rowing workout was selected from Concept 2’s suggestions for “workout of the day”. It was called “2 x 10 min short intervals” and the instructive description was: “Pre-set the monitor for a work time of 10:00 and a rest time of 4:00. Each interval alternate between 40 seconds fast rowing and 20 seconds easy rowing. During the rest time continue rowing at light pressure.”

Finish screen after today’s rowing workout.

Data and chart for today’s SkiErg workout.

Happy rowing to you!

Some Kind of Inertia

The above photo is a display of one result of Einstein’s formulation of the Theory of Relativity… or his contributions to quantum physics… or both. At any rate, it is showing some of the effects of converting the mass of a few ounces of uranium into energy.

After 8 days without working out, today I finally managed to do a workout on both the rowing machine and SkiErg. There was no earth-shaking result, but it seemed like there was a huge amount of some kind of inertia to overcome when I first started pulling the handle on the rowing machine. The result of today’s workout was to convert about 2 1/2 ounces of my body’s mass into a modest 552 calories of kinetic energy. There was additional energy conversion resulting in heat and myriads of other changes in the body, but those were not measured by the ergometers.

The two ergometers, rowing machine and SkiErg, only measured the kinetic energy required to operate them and that totaled to about 552 Calories. *

Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app gave a green light for doing a workout.

Today’s workout was once again strictly aerobic. I need to start incorporating resistance/anabolic activity into a few days of each week’s workouts. How do I cultivate that as a habit?

The above question will have to remain unanswered for the moment. Screenshots of today’s workout reports are below. They were a series of 4 minute hard/3 minute easy rowing intervals followed by a series of 10 Calories hard/10 Calories easy cross-country SkiErg intervals:

Graphs and data for the SkiErg intervals.

Happy rowing to you!

*If you are a physicist and want to get technical, it totaled to 552 kilo calories.