Today’s indoor rowing consisted of two pieces. The first was a 25 minute session which included some intervals. Specifically, it was 4×4 min r 1 min, with 3 minutes at the beginning and end, for warmup/down. The 25 minute session was recorded as a screen recording with ambient sounds of the room, plus some brief words from me at the beginning. Those brief words were somewhat incorrect, however, because though I intended for the session to be 5×4 min r 1 min, I didn’t allow enough total time when I setup the RowPro session for 25 minutes. It should have been 30 minutes or longer, to include all 5 intervals. As a result, if you watch and listen to the screen recording on YouTube, you will hear me announce that it will be 5 intervals but you will only see four intervals. Also, you will hear a timer beep during the last 3 minutes of warm down, which has to be ignored because there isn’t enough time to do the 5th interval for which the Gymboss interval timer had been programmed to announce with its beeps.
The 25 minute session was deleted from YouTube by me, because of the “copyrighted content” claims made against it. Instead of that one, you can watch this one which is titled Indoor Rowing Workout 30 Minutes With 5×4 Minute Intervals which I did and recorded on January 4, 2018.
NOTE REGARDING VIDEO POSTED TO YOUTUBE JANUARY 3 (25 minute session mentioned above): after posting it to YouTube, I noticed that it had been tagged as “containing copyrighted material” which turned out to be some of the music that was playing over the speakers in the room. YouTube said that because of that, there would be Ads placed on the video and the advertising profits from the videos thus being monetized would go to whoever had claimed copyright rights. So I used YouTube’s tools to “remove” the copyrighted tracks. After taking a long time to re-process and “edit” the video, YouTube announced that it hadn’t been able to remove the song and gave the option of leaving it as is and having ads displayed, or muting the song. So… rather than have ads plastered over it while someone is trying to watch it during their rowing, I chose the “mute” option. The worst case is that there will be blank areas of audio. In the future, I will only have sounds playing from the speakers that are not copyrighted!
ADDITIONAL NOTE REGARDING THIS VIDEO WHICH WAS POSTED TO YOUTUBE: After YouTube “edited” the sound track of the video, the sound track was ruined and the relevant signals (interval timer beeps) are either removed or re-positioned. So … I will put other videos up to replace these, when I can. After those videos are up, I will delete these videos from YouTube. Once that is done, I will also delete the links to them. It has been educational, to learn about how the music industry is listening to the sound tracks of all videos posted in public places on the internet and making copyright claims so that they have the right (and so that they are the only ones who have the right) to “monetize” the video by placing whatever advertisements they like on the video. Screen recordings of indoor rowing sessions aren’t nearly as helpful or relevant if the actual sounds, including the signals from any interval timer used, are audible.
Don’t get me wrong, with regard to anything I’ve said above about copyrighted music. Whoever owns the copyrights should get appropriate payment – but if I’d known that the muted audio of the music I played was recognizable and would in essence make the videos I posted the “property” of copyright holders, with regard to plastering advertisements on them, I would have rowed without any music playing over the speakers.
Here are the screenshots etc for today’s 25 minute piece:
After the 25 minute piece, I rowed for another 40 minutes for the sake of BURNING MORE CALORIES! for the sake of one of the Concept 2 challenges in which I’m enrolled this month. That particular challenge is called The Big Burn and the challenge is to burn at least 20,000 calories while rowing this month.
The second session today was also uploaded to YouTube and it should not have to have its sound track muted or mutilated to remove “copyrighted material,” because the only sounds coming from the speakers during the 40 minutes were “white noise” type sounds of ocean surf. As far as I know, the composer & creator of those sounds (God) has not filed a copyright. The title of the YouTube video version is “Indoor Rowing 40 Minutes For Target Heart Rate” and you can find it on YouTube by clicking that link.
Here are the screenshots etc for the 4o minute session:
Happy rowing to you.