Monitoring HRV to understand how you are responding to stress.

By whchambers | 11/29/2023

I have in the past experimented with monitoring HRV to understand both how I’m responding to training (stress) and recovery (rest) to optimise my training response and avoid overtraining. So far, I’m still learning and building up a baseline. I’m researching different sources of information and will share these with you. Sharing original article found…

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What is Heart Rate Variability (HRV)?

By whchambers | 04/15/2023

Sharing exerts from original articles on HRV, published on Harvard University Health Blog (2017) and Oura website 2020. What is HRV? As popular as the metaphor may be, a healthy heart doesn’t beat as regularly as a metronome—it actually changes its rhythm with each beat. This constant variation in milliseconds between your heartbeats is known…

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Always training in the middle can be costly. In fact, it can cost you your season and possibly your health.

By whchambers | 01/15/2023

We are aerobic beings, and your basic aerobic capacity plays a major role in performing at your best, especially when it comes to training and racing. Unfortunately, a common mistake many Masters Rowers (and other age groups) make, is training with a “no pain, no gain” mentality. This always on, high intensity training and pushing mentality, can lead to damaging the aerobic function, resulting…

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3 Tasty Time Saver Ergo Workouts

By whchambers | 02/09/2022

Here are some of my favourite time saver workouts, you can incorporate into your training, to get a great workout in less than an hour! These are individual sessions, not a training program. If you’re training 4-5 times a week, then one of these workouts per week would be a good starting point, with the…

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