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.