Walk in the Park WOD and the HRM

Just a walk in the park... w/ godzilla.

Today's CFE class was a big class on few rowers & a long long slow burner.A walk in the park...if you are walking with Gojiro.

In teams of 4

10 k Row

One athlete works at a time. Switch every 250m. Athletes must complete 7 burpee box jumps 24/20” before returning to the rower.

Lotta team spirit in the CFE classes!

Scott, Paul, Eric and I cranked through it in about 40 mins. The rowing got your heart rate up, then w/ jello legs you tried to do a burpee box jump. Wicked simple. Originally, the workout was to be with 3 people, that would have been BRUTAL. We did 10 rounds each, putting us at about 4 mins a round each w/ rest being only about 90-120 secs. It was pretty fast paced. I just figured out what the small number in the bottom corner is on the display- Strokes/minute. I was averaging in the low to mid 40's occassionaly bouncing up to 50. But my strokes were short(short arms and legs) and I really tried to stay in the power zone of my stroke rather than over extend or lean back. It felt like I was going fast- dont know for sure. (addendum: after reading this article maybe I was going too fast with the cadence? Lucky- I didnt 'stroke out' and have to be medivac'd to Fletcher Allen!)Pretty much everyone could finish the row BEFORE the person in front finished their burpeebox jumps. If the row didnt get you... the box jumps would.



I finally got to break in the Polar H7HRM coupled with the Digifit app. Paired up and worked just fine. No irritation and light weight.The data was easy to read in the app, but the start-up was slow and the voice and updating every few minutes really annoying- Ive got some config and settings to tweak. The online display of the data set was nicely handled... if you are a 4ryold. No decent scales or controls for the graphs, but easy to read and colorful. Does have a map feature and other data set options. I was kind of hoping for more. You do have limited options to export data, but who wants to cook their own excel files? More to come on this front. It did reinforce the theory that these classes were really pushing our heart rates into the right zones for serious cardio work. Cant wait to see how this compares to some Tabata WOD's!


Results:
Time 39:56
cals 456, 11cpm
bpm 129avg 162max

Screen grab from a portion of Digifit's online workout display.