The plan for today’s rowing session was influenced by an article I read on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and also by a short (12 minute) talk and explanation by a medical doctor regarding some of the benefits of HIIT inclusion in daily workouts. (That 12 minute talk is on YouTube at this link: HIIT: How to Regrow Your Mitochondria? Really?- Ford Brewer MD MPH )
Today’s rowing session was uploaded to YouTube as a screen recording at this link: Indoor Rowing HIIT within online 10K 11102018
After the screen recording starts and before the actual online rowing session begins, I do a little talking. I talk slowly and pause a few times while talking. I was rather sleepy 😴 and the pauses were made when I was yawning with sleepiness…
The session today was 10K done online in the virtual company of a few other rowers in the US and Europe. I rowed easy for about the first 15 minutes as a warmup. Then, I started an interval timer which alternated between beeping after two minutes and then beeping next, after 20 seconds. During the 20 second timer period, I would row about as fast as I possibly could. After each 20 second “high intensity” interval, I would row easy for two minutes. I did ten of those 20 second hard/2 minute easy intervals.
My mitochondria feel better already (see below)
Happy rowing to you.