I’m making a blog entry so that you know I’m still alive. 🙂 This entry consists only of the daily EliteHRV readings and SleepWatch app sleep logging results for the past three days, because there were no workouts.
Happy rowing to you!
Today’s rowing was chosen to be low energy because I doubted the result of this morning’s HRV analysis. The graph accompanying the EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading had what appeared to be an artifact so that meant the reading might not be what it appeared to be. Also, I felt a bit low energy.
So the chosen session was an easy 12K. There was no screen recording made of today’s session.
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The main workout today was the shortest, a 2,000 meter session on the SkiErg. It might correctly be called a “time trial,” because though it was solo, I was trying to go as fast as possible for that distance. It felt like RPE level 9 but I’m new to the SkiErg, so there is lots of room for improvement.
A screen recording was made of the SkiErg 2k and it can be found at this link: SkiErg 2K 02162019
The longest workout session today was 8,000 meters on the rowing machine. It was done as a warmup for the SkiErg 2K and was done with a target heart rate zone of 133 to 158 and it felt like RPE Level 5. Heart rate was allowed to rise above 158 near the end because it felt good, I was barely perspiring and was breathing easy.
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Today’s workout was a total of about 10,000 meters. First there was a warmup of 1,018 meters and then the main session was 8995 meters.
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Happy Valentine’s day to you!
Today’s workouts consisted of first a 10 minute warmup on the rowing machine at RPE Level 1, followed by ten intervals on the SkiErg at RPE Levels 7 to 9. There was a 2 minute RPE Level 1 period of active rest after each interval.
The SkiErg intervals were arranged as 5 minutes at 40 SPM, 4 minutes at 42 SPM, 3 minutes at 44 SPM, 2 minutes at 46 SPM and 1 minute at 48 SPM. Each was followed immediately by the 2 minute active rest. The entire sequence was then repeated one more time.
It was VERY challenging, to achieve the target stroke ratings of 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 SPM for each of the five intervals. I only managed to achieve the exact average for the target SPM for 3 of the 10 intervals.
For the first 5 minute interval I had the drag factor too high with the damper set at 7. For the next interval I reduced the drag factor by moving the damper to 6. After each subsequent interval, I moved the damper a bit lower until it was at 3 by the time the first 5 intervals were completed.
For the second 5 intervals, I left the damper at 3.
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Today’s rowing was mainly 5000 meters with 3 intervals of 500 meters each woven into the session. Overall, I rate the 5K rowing at RPE Level 4. It was followed by a 1K rowing warm down at RPE Level 1.
There was also a 500 meter SkiErg session at RPE Level 10 and it was followed by a 1K warm down at RPE Level 1.
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…will be a day with some indoor rowing. Today wasn’t a day with rowing, but at least I’ve been doing the daily sleep logging and EliteHRV Morning Readiness readings, which are displayed below.
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No rowing today but did get some things done that were overdue.
There was no HRV reading yesterday but you can see this morning’s HRV reading above. It is probably erroneous, because it was taken at the wrong time of day and after I’d eaten. But I’ll let it stand anyway… Maybe if I let the odd ones stay in the record, the long-term “baseline” will be more accurate.
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Today is and will continue to be the second day without a workout. Hopefully, this workoutless streak will end tomorrow.
Though there was no workout yesterday nor today, there were HRV Morning Readiness readings. And there was sleep logging. That drowsy subject matter is screenshotified below:
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Today’s aerobic workouts consisted of first doing 5K on the rowing machine. The 5K was wrapped around three intervals of 500 meters each, like yesterday’s rowing 5K. It was RPE Level 4.
I haven’t uploaded a screen recording for a while, so the 5K rowing session was recorded for those who’d like to row-along with it. It is available at: Indoor Rowing 5K Wrapped Around 3 Intervals 02052018
After the rowing, I did six intervals of 500 meters each, on the SkiErg. The target pace for each of the 500 meter intervals was going to be 2:10 to 2:11, but after the first interval at target pace, I faded during the second interval and went a lot slower during the final 5 of 6 intervals. The SkiErg session was RPE Level 10 for sweating but RPE Level 7 for breathing.
Happy rowing to you!