Today’s workouts were another in the recent string of typical 10K rowing followed by 100+ calories on SkiErg. But the HRV morning readiness analysis (using the EliteHRV app) advised taking it easy, so both the rowing and SkiErg sessions were relatively boring. Especially the rowing session… it was so boring that I stood up and walked away from the machine for a minute or so during the session.
The rowing session was done online, but nobody else joined it today.
After rowing and ski-erging, I started sipping coffee. Had some breakfast. Finished all the coffee. The coffee was “regular”, caffeinated and quite strong but after finishing alllll of the coffee – five cups – I felt like taking a nap and slept for about 90 minutes. Perhaps that nap will improve tomorrow’s HRV reading?
The first cup of black coffee always tastes especially good.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for the SkiErg session.
The yellow band is a “yellow light” telling me to use caution and not push hard.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis with the EliteHRV app indicated that I should take it easy. So that’s what I did. The workouts were: 10K rowing at a much more moderate pace than yesterday’s, followed by a SkiErg workout at a more moderate effort level than yesterday’s.
Finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphgs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for today’s SkiErg workout.
This morning’s HRV analysis gave a green light for any effort level during the workout.
Although I gave today’s workouts an overall RPE Level 4 rating, which is unremarkable, the observed lowest and highest heart rates seemed very remarkable.
One thing I have a habit of doing every morning is checking to see what my lowest/resting heart rate was during the night, and jotting it down in a notepad. The lowest heart rate during the night had been 53.
But after I changed into rowing clothes, put on the heart strap and sat on the rowing machine before starting to row, heart rate went as low as 51 BPM, which was 2 BPM lower than the lowest it had been during the night while I was laying motionless and in deep sleep!
Perhaps my body was anticipating morning coffee, with its dose of caffeine stimulant and was suppressing its own production of whatever comparable stimulant(s) it makes?
Heart rate was nice and low, before doing any rowing this morning. Just before I reached out to the keyboard to take this screenshot, displayed heart rate had been 51 BPM.
After today’s rowing session, I did a short session on the Concept 2 SkiErg. Heart rate managed to surprise me again by going to the other extreme and reaching as high as 185 during one of the SkiErg intervals.
After the workouts, I made coffee and enjoyed about 5 “cups” (30 liquid ounces) of dark black coffee during the next few hours of the morning.
After the 4th of 5 intervals during the SkiErg workout, HR went as high as 185. Its easy to work hard on the SkiErg…
The main workout today was 10K on the rowing machine. It was done online. This is a view of the finish screen for today’s 10K rowing session.
Report for today’s 10K rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s 10K rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook data for today’s SkiErg session.
Today’s heart rate variability analysis by the EliteHRV app gave a green light to workout at any effort level.
Today’s main workout was one hour of rowing, like yesterday’s session. It was also done online, like yesterday’s session. But nobody else signed up for this session, so I did it alone.
After the 60 minutes of rowing, I did a couple hundred calories on the SkiErg.
Finish screen for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Report for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
RowPro graphs for today’s 60 minutes of rowing.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s SkiErg session.
The fuzzy math of pattern recognition applied to the above Intra-Reading chart for today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness says that it is not true that there were “O artifacts”.
This morning’s EliteHRV app Morning Readiness reading was a balanced 10, which is about as good as it gets, but I don’t believe it. It’s not that I don’t feel okay – I feel fine, but the graph shows two obvious artifacts which were not corrected. At least, they were not correctly corrected… because the HRV graph is obviously greatly influenced by them.
It gave me a reason to have another day without a workout. But tomorrow will be a long workout on the SkiErg, if nothing interferes with that.
The Readiness / Relative Balance for this morning was excellent… too bad the EliteHRV app’s analysis is not believable.
Plenty of sleep last night, at 9 hours 25 minutes. Perhaps too much. This graph of sleep and sleeping heart rate was produced by the nifty app called SleepWatch.
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.
Feb 19 2019 EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading.Feb 20 2019 EliteHRV Morning Readiness reading.Feb 18 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 7 hours 30 mins sleepFeb 19 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 8 hours 10 mins sleepFeb 20 2019 SleepWatch app graph of sleeping heart rate for 7 hours 00 mins sleep
This morning’s EliteHRV morning readiness reading helped me decide to avoid doing any intervals or sprints today.
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.
There was plenty of sleep last night at 7 hours 15 minutes but heart rate was unusually high during the night, so that was another reason I took it easy today.
Finish screen for today’s main rowing session.
RowPro report for today’s main rowing session.
RowPro graphs for today’s main rowing session.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s main rowing session.
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.
Today’s heart rate variability reading with EliteHRV was a green light for any kind of workout.
Last night’s sleep was good with 7 hours 10 minutes logged.
Finish screen for the 10 intervals done today on the SkiErg.
Report for the 10 intervals done today on the SkiErg.
RowPro graphical overview for the 10 intervals done today on the SkiErg.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for the first of 10 intervals done today on the SkiErg. You can see how heart rate kept rising even though my effort level was fading… that’s why I kept adjusting the damper level lower, looking for a drag factor that was sustainable for the entire interval. If you want to see charts for each of the rest of them, you can do so by logging in to your Concept 2 logbook account, finding me in the RowPro Rowers virtual club and clicking on my profile, then clicking to view my log, which is accessible to anybody who is logged in. Then click on the + sign to the right of today’s log entry for this session. On the next screen, you will see a line for each interval and a line for each rest. If you click on the line for each interval, you will be able to see the chart for each respective interval. There are no charts to see for the rests.
Today’s aerobic exercise was done with the SkiErg. Mainly, it was a 5K. I started out at a pace of about 2:27 for the first 250 meters. Pace slowed to 2:28 for the next 250 meters. For the third 250 meters, it slowed to about 2:31. After that, I decided to aim for something around 2:45 to 2:40. By the last 500 meters, there was enough energy left to pick up the pace and finish the entire 5K at an average pace of about 2:38. It was placed into the rankings, which placed me second-to-last in 5K SkiErg rankings this season for men in my age group.
The 5K was done at RPE Level 4 and was followed by a 5 minute SkiErg warm down.
RowPro report for today’s 5K on the SkiErg.
RowPro graphs for today’s 5K on the SkiErg.
Concept 2 online logbook chart for today’s 5K on the SkiErg.
Today’s Morning Readiness score from EliteHRV
Last night’s sleep was good quality, 6 hours 30 minutes.
Today’s EliteHRV Morning Readiness analysis said it was okay to do anything, so I didn’t have any excuse not to row.Last night’s sleep was okay until just before 5 AM again, when I became wide awake after the second of 3 trips to the bathroom. I tried to just lay still and fall back to sleep but it didn’t work. So I went to another room and sat and did “HRV breathing” in “coherence” for about 20 minutes. At least there was no Afib like the night before. Felt relaxed enough after that to get a total of 7 hours 55 minutes of actual sleep.
Today’s main workout was the same distance as yesterday’s main session and it was done to the accompaniment of a pace boat that duplicated yesterday’s rowing. My goal was to stay about 10 meters ahead of yesterday’s rowing, throughout the distance. Near the finish, I picked up the pace a bit more to make sure that today’s session was a few calories more than yesterday’s. The estimated level of exertion for today’s main session was RPE Level 5.
In addition to the rowing session, I also used the SkiErg, to burn almost another 300 calories. There will be no screen shots relating to the SkiErg in this post.
finish screen for today’s main sessionreport for today’s main sessionRowPro graphs for today’s main sessionConcept 2 online logbook chart for today’s main session
