Get a Great Workout for Both Mind & Body: Here’s How
Written on December 24, 2009 by admin
Filed Under: blackhat, book, seo
I can’t be the only one.
I can’t be the only one who’s biggest hump to get over for the cardio portion of my workouts is pure boredom.
For me, running is boring. The elliptical machine is boring. Rollerblading, bike, Stairmaster: boring, Boring, BORING!
But cardio has to be done if you don’t want to be a fat, out of shape blob. So what can we do to make these workouts less boring? Here’s what I do:
Audiobooks, TTC, other lectures and podcasts can all be a great source of knowledge. So why not listen to these while you’re doing cardio?
I’ll tell you why not:
A. They generally talk too damn slow to hold your interest and
B. Without some high energy music beats, it’s hard to keep your pace when doing cardio.
Solution
You take your teaching company lectures, podcasts, audiobooks, auio read magazines, or open course mp3s and open them in Audacity.
Go to Effects ->Change Tempo:
Increase the tempo. I generally find 50-75% to be ideal. If it’s more technical or the people are speaking quickly, then increase the tempo less.
Increasing the tempo makes the speaker talk quicker, while maintaining the pitch. This is important if you don’t want to feel like you are listening to Mickey Mouse on Crack. Note: there’s something about the British accent that makes it much more difficult to understand when sped up.
Next step: open up your high-energy work out music (uncut is easier to work with). It’s also a good idea to eliminate or keep vocals to a minimum. Another cool thing about tempo shift is you can increase the BPM of your tunes to make them better geared toward work outs.
Now listen to a sample of how these two sound when played together. Generally the Podcast, Audiobook, or Course portion of the combined audio will need to have it’s volume increase (+db).
Once you are satisfied of the balance, highlight the entire portion where both exist.
Go to File -> Export Selection as an MP3.
Rinse and repeat.
Now load up the completed track to your mp3 player and get to the gym!
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