Nudge and Follow the Heart

The plan for today's session of intravenously-administered anti-depressants was to have an hour+ session with a visible target heart zone of zone 2 (the second to lowest of 5 aerobic heart rate zones).

The rest of the plan was: start vigorously enough to elevate heart rate to anywhere in zone 2 and then ease off & adjust the effort so as to keep heart rate as constantly in zone 2 for the first 30 minutes.

At the 30 minute mark, the plan was to increase effort to raise heart rate to anywhere at all above zone 2 and then keep it up there for 3 minutes.

After those 3 minutes then reduce effort to bring heart rate back into zone 2 until 10 minutes remained.

For the last 10 minutes, effort would be reduced enough to bring heart rate into or below zone 1 for the warm down.

Mission accomplished and another generous dose of natural anti-depressants received!

In this session, the heart rate dictated the level of effort.

743 calories is about the same amount as I would have burned if I'd been jogging slowly.