Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak fueling

I also have used a heart rate monitor kayaking
and rowing and running and bicycling.

The problem with kayaking is the amount of
muscle mass involved.  Not nearly as much as
running or cycling and those are the activities
that are used as benchmarks for what is
"aerobic".   One will NEVER be able to maintain
the same heart rate for the same length of time
as activities using the legs.  Just not enough
mass involved with the arms-shoulders.  They're
smaller, use less oxygen, have a smaller blood
supply and the lactic acid builds up and they
go anaerobic at the same heart-rate where the
legs could go all day.

The other problem is using speed as a measurement.
Hull speed is the square root of the length at waterline
times 1.4 for knots.  A couple feet of boat length makes
a difference for athletes in a race, not so much for
the rest of us.  Hull speed is a wall, period.  Some
folks claim to exceed it, but only for periods of seconds.
Runners don't have that problem.

Kayaking is exercise.  It is aerobic.  It is low-impact.
It's often spiritual.  It is not running or stair-climbing.
Using typical fitness magazine methods of measuring
it are frustrating to useless.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tomckayak_at_aol.com>
To: <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak fueling


> In a message dated 9/2/99 11:00:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com writes:
>
> << I've wanted to get a heart rate monitor and see what that would show
when
> I was
>  out paddling.  >>
> I have used a heart rate monitor paddling. It is hard to get the rate up
to
> an aerobic threshold. At normal cruising speed is it embarrassingly low
(95
> to 105). A sea kayak is a vary efficient at moving though the water. To
get
> the rate up it helps to have  wind  or current to paddle against.
>
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