Today’s indoor rowing was done in silence in the respect that no music was playing during the session. There were the other usual sounds: the rotation of the C2 flywheel, the rhythmic whooshing of air out of the flywheel shroud and the sound of a fan in the room. All of those sounds are white-noise, surfy-type sounds. Eyes were closed most of the time except for periodically opening them to check on progress and glance at the readings on the RowPro screen and Concept 2 PM (machine-mounted personal monitor).
It was done at a “walking” pace for rowing, instead of a “jogging” or faster pace. The distance was set to 15,000 meters. Even though the pace was so leisurely that my heart never even got up into heart rate zone 1, the lowest of the five aerobic heart zones… it still burned a nice amount of calories. Which illustrates that walking is great exercise… if done for a long enough time. Rowing at a walking pace burns more calories than literal walking, because rowing exercises many more muscles in the body. To burn a comparable amount of calories by walking, a person could wade in water.
I like to row fast but it’s best in a race. So I just keep watching for an occasional scheduled internet race at an opportune time.
Happy trails.