2024 : 08 : 19

Depth Charging and Playing with Morpheus

Sometimes it’s hard to separate data from distractions, and signal from noise. Sometimes you just need metal as heavy as your dead lifts and black as your coffee.

365 x 8 at 176 body weight

Summary:

As part of a planned de-load week, I toned the volume down to about 8.5 hours. Of course, we all know time isn’t necessarily indicative of intensity or implicated recovery need. For that I’m excited to start using the Morpheus heart rate monitor created by Joel Jamieson.

Off the cuff I’m pretty impressed. The app’s user interface is clean and simple; without the many bloated features of other fitness devices / wearable tech. I do wish it had a web interface to access from a desktop PC though.

The device itself is super sleek, so I’ll be able to start collecting data:

1. To compare differences in accuracy between Garmin (VivoActive 3) and Morpheus (MK7).

2. Get a heart rate profile of what jiu jitsu training sessions look like — yes, you can wear it grappling!

3. Compare nutritional and lifestyle factors to the recovery and performance metrics within Morpheus to see where the most bang for my buck is.

As for this week’s training, the RPE was pretty high, but volume — in terms of reps/sets was low. This allowed me to go pretty heavy and get a good idea of where to begin the next intensity (heavy) phase of training.

Whereas I was building general fitness and volume over the past few weeks, I’ll be shifting to heavier loads and sport-specific movements for the next month — followed by sport-specific energy systems after that.

Blue = Recovery Zone (<145 bpm), Green = Conditioning Zone (145-160 bpm), Red = Overload Zone (>165 bpm)

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