ZenTri Podcast 534 - Road Rash is Cool
Friday, August 9, 2013 at 6:42AM Click here to download or listen.
Kids can give us grown ups a lesson in how to be a bad ass. They get knocked around and get right back up. Here is Kai showing me how proud he is of his bloody elbow after a bike wreck. I told him that he is able to look at it that way because of how he was raised. I put him on a bike at age two. When he fell down and started crying, I would put the bike back under him and say, "Big boys can cry all they want, but they cry on the bike. Get right back on the bike." Even though I got a lot of squinty-eyed looks from Emily for that, it's paid off. He's as tough as nails. Little nails, but still... nails. Ok, maybe thumbtacks.
On this episode, we cover a lot of ground. Nurse Emily tells us how to take care of road rash, I give you a Swimming Workout of the Week, and I detail how to get an epic amount of training volume with a busy family and full-time job.
Back to our regularly scheduled blog post, above is a pic I took of the cockroach races that happen in my pool's locker room. I wish I could say this was a one-time event. Unfortunately, not so much.
Out on the trails, I shot a pic of how a Suunto Ambit looks on a mountain bike -
The cool thing here is that you only need to buy one training computer, and then you can move it between bikes, runs, kayaks, airplanes, and probably even sex dungeons. I don't know if the Ambit has "sex dungeon mode", but I tend to underestimate it's abilities. I'm not sure what that mode would measure, but the graph would certainly be interesting to check out.
On with more graphs and measuring, below is a screen shot of the Sweet Beat app running on my iPhone. It calculates HRV, or Heart Rate Variability.
I have been talking about this HRV stuff a lot on my recent shows. This app measures HRV and graphs for you how well you are recovering and if you should keep training or not. I love it. What I don't love is having to additionally use a Wahoo HR strap, an ANT+ adapter, an additional Steve Jobsian "We changed the port shape so now you'll need another adapter for your ANT+ adapter" adapter, (Welcome to the Apple Ecosystem Sex Dungeon - you can't leave) and then the waiting-for-three-minutes-for-it-to-work-while-you-have-to-stand-still-and-breathe-all-weird part. It's at that point where I'm thinking, "This is all a little too much."
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Reader Comments (2)
Is it possible to get HRV values from Ambit2? Other than calculated in personal training effect.
No. I tried to make one, but it failed. The apps run once per second, and you need to know how many tenths of seconds between heart beats for it to be accurate enough to measure HRV.