Tag: EliteHRV

Change In Effort Leads Heart Rate

There won’t be a workout today, because I’ll be following the recommendation of today’s “Readiness” score as calculated by the EliteHRV app’s analysis of my heart rate variability.

I think EliteHRV may be mistaken, but will go along with the recommendation anyway, because there are plenty of other things to do.

Before signing off from writing in this blog today, I will note that today’s title is in reference to the clear graphical demonstration when you look at a graph of heart rate and effort level vs time, as you can see in the chart below. Notice that heart rate starts climbing after each interval begins and heart rate continues to climb for quite a while after each interval ends.

I just think that is interesting. The effect is more pronounced when the intervals are at higher effort levels.

If this chart looks familiar, it might be because you read yesterday’s blog post and saw it posted there, as a part of the screenshot view of data for yesterday’s SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Regular Until Irregular

The EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis was a good score but it may have been a false reading because there were two artifacts visible on the EliteHRV HR graph which were not detected.

Today’s main workout was a 60 minute online rowing session. The target was to row at a pace of 2:10 and then sprint near the end, for a season best time. But during the last 15 minutes heart rate spiked from a normal rate of around 150 to 198 and became irregular, so I immediately slowed and rowed slow for the rest of the hour.

Finish screen view for today’s online 60 minutes.
RowPro report for today’s online 60 minutes.
RowPro graphs for today’s online 60 minutes. You can see how HR went nuts during the last 15 minutes.
On this chart you can clearly see where HR first started acting up, at the tall spike.

Happy rowing to you.

An Online Hour+

The EliteHRV morning readiness score was good but not quite as good as yesterday’s.

Today’s workout started with a 60 minute session online with three other guys. But one of those three didn’t show, so it was just two others besides me who actually rowed. During the 60 minutes I did most of the rowing at a pace of about 2:15 with the exception of once ever 10 minutes after the first 10 minutes doing an interval which lasted 60 seconds.

After the 60 minute session, there was a 10 minute warm down and then I switched from rowing machine to SkiErg and did 118 Calories on that.

Finish screen view of today’s 60 minute session.
RowPro report for today’ 60 minutes.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes
Some data and a chart for today’s 118 Calorie SkiErg session.

Happy rowing to you!

Some Online Rowing & Offline SkiErging

The EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis of heart rate variability was as good as I could hope for.

Today’s workouts consisted of an online 10K session, a 10 minute warm down online then a 6779 meter online session (all rowing). After those three, I did a SkiErg session that was 117 Calories.

This is a finish view of the graph section of the 10K RowPro session. You can readily tell that I did intervals. They began after the first 2K meters, lasted one minute each and were repeated every 1K after the first interval.
RowPro report for today’s 60 minute online session. I won’t bother to display data or graphs for the other two rowing sessions – a 10 minute warm down and a 6779 meter piece, but if you really want to see them all you have to do is log into your concept2.com logbook account and view them in my logbook, which is viewable by all logged-in users.
This is a view of some of the data for the 117 Calorie SkiErg session. It consisted of 10 Calorie intervals with recovery periods of about 10 calories each.

Happy rowing to you!

Inspired By Dr. Ormsbee

Today’s EliteHRV heart rate variability Morning Readiness analysis was a green light for any effort level.

Yesterday evening my better half and I watched some episodes of a course on diet and exercise by Dr. Michael Ormsbee. It is a very much in-depth course, on the college level. I would have to watch the episodes again and take a few pages of notes if I were to be tested on it. But the purpose of watching it wasn’t to become experts. The purpose was to expose ourselves to some teaching on the subject which is based on research studies and the evidence gathered by those.

One thing Dr. Ormsbee mentioned that I already knew was enough to both remind and re-motivate me to resume rowing again today. I can’t quote it exactly from memory, but the sense of it was something I already knew: the single most helpful thing a person can do for the sake of good health and avoiding diseases is to workout.

Today’s workout was a 10K online interval rowing session in the company of a few others, followed by 10 minutes of warm down rowing. The warm down rowing was also online in the company of others. After the rowing I topped it off with a series of six 10-Calorie intervals within a single 116 Calorie SkiErg session.

RowPro report for today’s 10K online session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 10K.
Concept 2 online logbook data display for today’s 116 Calorie SkiErg interval session.

Happy rowing to you!

Today And Yesterday, Succinctly

There was no rowing or other workout either yesterday or today. But I’ve been in contact with another guy who uses RowPro and likes to row online in scheduled sessions as part of his motivation/incentive to do frequent rowing and I may soon resume rowing online if we can get mutually agreeable, scheduled online sessions arranged.

And now for the topic of tracking heart rate variability: My EliteHRV “Morning Readiness” scores for today and yesterday:

Today’s (April 5, 2019) EliteHRV analysis.
Yesterday’s (April 4, 2019) EliteHRV analysis.

Happy rowing to you!

Online Session Canceled

Today’s morning readiness score with the EliteHRV app was still in the green, barely.

The online half-marathon session that was scheduled for early this morning was canceled after I checked, about 2 hours before it was scheduled to start, and saw that nobody else had signed up for it.

I’d had another night of sleep interrupted by a period of wakefulness aka insomnia. After canceling the online session I went back to bed and slept until a few hours before noon, which was a lot later than desired but which at least provided a total amount of sleep of a little more than 7 hours, which is what seems to be the needed amount of daily sleep.

Maybe a full marathon tomorrow?

Happy rowing to you!

Perhaps Tomorrow?

Hopefully, tomorrow’s EliteHRV app Morning Readiness reading will be in the green, like today’s was.

Insomnia last night, slept in late today. Again.

Didn’t do any rowing or other workout today. Again.

But on the positive side, I felt very rested after getting out of bed today!

Scheduled a half marathon for early tomorrow morning. I wonder if that will come to pass?

Happy rowing to you!

Interference of a Different Sort

This morning’s Red Light meant STOP- don’t do a workout.

Yesterday, the problem was insomnia. Today, the problem was the extremely low “Morning Readiness” reading from the EliteHRV app when it measured heart rate variability. So I didn’t row today.

The EliteHRV app counted 43 “artifacts” and even though it supposedly corrected for them, the result was still a very poor reading.

The problem causing the extremely poor reading was probably due to a bout of irregular heartbeat as you can see displayed in the EliteHRV graph above.

This is a much better reading. It was taken a lot later in the day, after a nap and after heartbeat had returned to normal.

I deleted that EliteHRV reading, had breakfast, skipped having any coffee and took some aspirin. Then I took a long nap. After the nap, I took another reading with EliteHRV and this time it was a good score. But it was too late in the day to do any rowing.

Happy rowing to you!