When I finished last week's post, it was about noon, but apparently I was not done with the races. That afternoon I was doing some chores--I don't know what now--and my hr jumped up to 139. I relaxed it down to 76 bpm. Later in the pm we had to meet with a person who wanted all of our remaining packing boxes from our storage unit. I humped some while he and Jan humped the rest. My hr jumped up to 160 bpm during this activity. I believe that it resolved itself during a slow down of activity and some slow breathing.
So, in one day I had 4 episodes! That seemed to me to be pretty self-limiting. Thus, this past week I did no workouts. However, when our daughter came home for the weekend we were very active. We humped and put together some gorilla rack storage for the garage--you know the kind where if you know what you're doing it takes one hour, but when you do it, it takes two. That was on Saturday. That was also the day to load the tool box. Quite a bit of activity.
Sunday we decided to get a work bench that matched the tool box. That was 6 ft assembled and we could not lift it without help from the store. We opened the packaging in the 4Runner and removed individual parts so that we could manage the load. So, another one hour project that took 2 hours. Alot of hands and knees stuff on that assembly.
Throughout this activity, the old heart was steady. That led me to arise this morning and once again approach a workout. On this occasion I adopted the successful strategy of the prior week. Omit the sprints from the bike ride; cut the reps in half on the weights while maintaining the weight. Success! The old heart stayed between 85 and 91 on the bike ride. (My resting hr on morning arising is mid- to upper-60s.). Hopefully over a half hour that is sufficient increase to produce somewhat of an aerobic effect. It was in a similar state during the lifts.
We'll try again Wednesday to see whether several outings a week are possible.
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