When To Be Happy If You’re Crabby

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A guy who’s new to rowing but not that new to other exercise said, “I get a little crabby when I’m not able to get my workouts in.”  It seems that he has achieved a positive addiction to something that is healthy.  That’s something to be happy about 🙂 and I know he is, because he said that since he’s taken to doing some daily exercise, he feels better than he has “in the last 15 years.”

I’m happy for him.

Happily, I too managed to do some exercise today.  It was mostly indoor rowing.  The main session was 10,000 meters which was done at its slowest pace for the first 1,000 meters as a warm up.  For the next 7,000 meters, it was done at an easy pace with a target heart rate of from around 130 to 140.  While I was rowing those 7,000 meters, the “Projected Finish” time on the rowing machine’s monitor would vary between 44 and 45 minutes.

For the last 2,000 meters, it was done at whatever pace it took to make the “Projected Finish” time on the monitor show 44:00 or less, with 44:00 being the target.

Afterwards, I rested for about 3 to 5 minutes, so the Apple Watch could measure and graph HR recovery.  Then I did an additional 5 minutes very easy, to get a few hundred more supplemental meters, to help keep my daily average above 10K per day.

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Finish screen for today’s 10K session.
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Report for today’s 10K session.
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RowPro’s graphs for today’s 10K session.
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Concept 2 online logbook’s graphs for today’s 10K session.
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Since the latest Apple Watch update, I like to look at its feature which shows heart rate recovery after exercise. It is only relevant if HR gets somewhat elevated. The watch only stores the HR recovery graphs like this for workouts done that day. (The next day, when you do workouts, those results overwrite the previous day’s). This shows HR recovery for today’s 10K session.
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The Apple Watch workout graphs only show heart rate versus time for workouts logged with the watch. It’s not as much information as provided by RowPro and the rowing machine, but it’s nice that the watch has that new feature. This is its graph for today’s 10K session.
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Finish screen for the easy, lazy 5 minutes of rowing to get a few more meters after today’s main rowing.
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Report for the 5 minutes.
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Graphs for the 5 minutes.

Happy rowing addiction to you.