Hello rowers and fitness seekers!
We had another successful live stream on Saturday morning. We had a total of 40 viewers/active rowing participants geographical stretching across the globe from Perth Australia, where it was 11 PM local time, to Paris France 5PM local if my math is correct.
Feedback was absolutely terrific. Husbands and wives shared using their rowing machine for the two 45 minute workouts that I lead at the Iron Oarsman, our indoor rowing studio, in Costa Mesa, California.
The most common comments were that it was fun to row while following my lead and that 45 minutes on the rowing machine flew by in a flash. For those who did not row, great enjoyment came from using the chatting module and meeting one another and commenting on the different exercises that I showed during the broadcast. From the U.K. it was mentioned that being live is exciting, but may not always fit into people's busy schedule.
The solution to fit the workouts into people's schedule that I run, has been figured out over the weekend. Every workout is now recorded onto my personal page on Ustream.tv.
The URL to the page is as follows:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/weight-loss-indoor-rowing-with-xeno-muller-olympic-gold-medali
As I was rowing in my first class, I mentioned to my friend John who sat next to me, that I was using a 3G USB connection to the wireless web. He asked me if I knew what my upload limits were in my wireless contract. I responded that I had no idea! Later that day I checked with my carrier and I was just under the limit. For this reason it is logical that I create a membership based workout service. At the Iron Oarsman our members pay $99 per month to row. For the world wide web indoor rowing "row2go" membership I made calculations that $17 per month would fit perfectly for 24 monthly fresh workouts on demand. This is a great way to push between 5000 and 11000 meters 24 time per month, depending on your fitness and torque level. The monthly membership commitment is under total control of the end user. There is NO long term commitment, not in this time and economic age.
The URL to sign up is:
http://web.me.com/xenoralfmuller/Site/ROW2GO_Live.html
My plan is to do one live rowing workout a week. It is fun to respond to peoples questions and comments as we crank out the meters.
I envision corporations using our stream to motivate their employees to stay health by following the workouts that we put out. Rowing with with me will always be interesting because the footage is as fresh as a bakers fresh bread coming out of the oven. After six years of running workouts at the Iron Oarsman, I have become a professional at entertaining rowers with all sorts of workouts. Inventing new workouts is similar to all the different ways to mix up a Rubics cube.
So if you know someone who needs a little motivation or instruction to row, I am the solution.
All the best,
Xeno
Xeno Muller, Olympic gold and silver medalist, indoor rowing, rowing technique.
