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Woke up this morning and my Fitbit told me my Readiness was 18 - low. Rowed anyway. Got a 30-minute PB. (6430 meters; 128 Watts) 82nd percentile for my age (76). Gee, I wonder what I could have done if I was rested.

I'm a 76 year-old male who uses a C2 Model D with PM3 computer 2 or 3 times a week to stay in shape. I mix it in with a treadmill and a recumbent bike.

30 minutes
6252 Meters
117 Watts
346 "True" Calories
8.6 Mets
VO2 Uptake 30.1 ml/kg/min

Not a PB but I feel good about it.

I'm a 76 year-old male who uses a C2 Model D with PM3 computer 2 or 3 times a week to stay in shape. I mix it in with a treadmill and a recumbent bike.

30 minutes
6252 Meters
117 Watts
346 "True" Calories
8.6 Mets
VO2 Uptake 30.1 ml/kg/min

Not a PB but I feel good about it.

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The measure I use for intensity is METS. METS are calculated by dividing your VO2 uptake (ml/wt(kg)/sec) for a given exercise by your VO2 uptake at rest (usually assumed to be 3.5 ml/kg/sec. The formula I use is Calories/minute x 200 / weight (kg) / 3.5 = METS. I set weekly goals for Met - minutes (...

I wear a Fitbit. I keep track of zone minutes -- a combination of time and intensity (heart rate). My daily goal is to at least double the standard set in the HHS Physical Activity Guidelines. I can usually get that number just by 40 minutes of rowing but if the rower is not available, I can still m...

If your gym is like mine, hardly anyone uses the C2 and nobody uses the REROW function. Once you've rowed your interval once, it will be stored in memory. The next time you come in you can pick REROW from the SELECT WORKOUT menu. Move the pointer down to the entry that corresponds to the last time y...

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Built my own.

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I have been researching metrics -- especially metrics that don't require expensive measurement tools -- and all of them, HRmax, HRR, VO2, Calories (both burned and consumed), Mets, BMR, BMI,, and so on are generalizations based on estimations and often derived by multiplying estimations by estimatio...

I warm up with a short weight session that seems to loosen up my tight muscles and get my heart primed for some cardio. I use two 20# dumbbells. I do 12 reps of this exercise set -- standing row -> Romanian dead lift -> hammer curl -> overhead press. I finish off with a dozen push ups. That feels li...

I'm working on that, too. If I feel my arms straighten out while my legs are driving, I know I messed up. My main indicator that I did it right is that I've got the handle in the plane it will finish in and my shoulders forward. When I drive, I should feel it in the shoulders, not the arms. I don't ...