Category: Ethereal Rowing

Today’s rowing session was, as the title suggests, 39 minutes.  It included seven intervals of one minute each, with 4 minutes of rest after each interval.

The name of the YouTube recording of today’s rowing session is Indoor Rowing 39 Minutes With Seven 1-minute Intervals.

The heart strap was a bit too dry at the beginning and as a result, heart rate didn’t show up and remain displayed until near the end of the first interval, almost 5 minutes into the rowing session.  Heart rate when rowing is like a tachometer on the dashboard of a car… useful information, once you get used to watching it.

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s indoor rowing time wasn’t as long as I would have liked, but at least it was enough to result in 649 calories toward the “Big Burn,” which is one of the concept2.com challenges I’m doing for the month of January 2018.  Click the link in the previous sentence, if you want to learn more about it.

The rowing time today was divided into two pieces:  A 21 minute session with 12 intervals of 30 seconds each and a half hour session which was low-intensity, mostly constant-pace rowing.

 

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s indoor rowing started with a 20 minute session that included twelve 30 second intervals.  It was recorded as a screen recording and uploaded to YouTube as a replacement for the similar one recorded on Dec 31, 2017, which supposedly had copyrighted material (the music that was playing for me in the background).  The recording of this session has music playing in the background, that was supposed to have no copyright. But YouTube claimed that a few minutes of the music was copyrighted.  So… I deleted that video from YouTube and there is no link for it.

The next rowing session was 30 minutes with 5×4 minute intervals with one minute rest after each interval.  That video made it to YouTube without any copyright claims for any of the background music.  It’s YouTube link is: Indoor Rowing Workout 30 Minutes With 5×4 Minute Intervals .

After both those rowing sessions were done, there was as 15 minute warmdown.

Happy rowing to you.

 

 

 

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.

Today’s indoor rowing was several pieces, but the main and most fun piece was 40 minutes which included eight 1 minute intervals.  A screen recording of the session was uploaded to YouTube with the title “Indoor Rowing 40 Minute Session With 8 One Minute Intervals” Note: This video was deleted from YouTube.  A similar one was uploaded to YouTube on Jan 7th, 2018 and you can find it at THIS LINK (see note regarding the YouTube problem, below)

NOTE REGARDING VIDEO POSTED TO YOUTUBE JANUARY 1 (40 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.

For today’s 40 minutes, I rowed “like a turtle” and for the intervals within the 40 minutes, I rowed “like a sprinting turtle.”  In other words, I deliberately took it easy, based on the advice of a cardiologist, Dr. Joel Kahn, whose book, The Whole Heart Solution, I’m reading. Based on studies done with competitive endurance runners, it seems that those who frequently push themselves long and hard are as likely to die of premature heart attack, as are potato couch (sedentary) people.  Bummer.  The most enjoyable rowing is to row hard and race, but apparently “a little dab will do,” of the high intensity, fast rowing or running.  So… I just had one little dab, of around 80% full-intensity rowing today, during the second-to-last (7th) of today’s 8 intervals.

All in all, it was a quite enjoyable balance of restraint and relaxation of restraint.

Happy rowing to you.