wolverine plan, anyone?

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Re: wolverine plan, anyone?

Post by jackarabit » August 30th, 2018, 12:20 am

Good stuff dropping 14+” on the new PB! Especially after a mere 60’ of warmup. :wink:
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Re: wolverine plan, anyone?

Post by Allan Olesen » August 30th, 2018, 1:21 am

Thank you, Jackarabit.

My progress is quite incredible right now. When I started getting serious about the rowing, I also started doing my own home brewed ramp test:
  • I start at 70W
  • Each minute I increase the load with 1W
  • After one hour I will have reached 130W
  • I then plot my heart rate over that hour and watch the HR increase
I have done three of those now:
April:
10 minutes in: 128 BPM
49 minutes in: 160 BPM
60 minutes in: Aborted

May:
10 minutes in: 115 BPM
49 minutes in: 133 BPM
60 minutes in: 140 BPM

August:
10 minutes in: 103 BPM
49 minutes in: 120 BPM
60 minutes in: 125 BPM

So right now my heart rate after 60 minutes of ramping from 70 to 130 W, is lower than it was 4 months ago after 10 minutes of ramping from 70 to 80 W.

I guess it is time for a new ramp with higher Watts since the HR is now getting so low that it is meaningless. Or perhaps I should increase the duration to 2 hours, ramping from 70 to 190 W...
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