Sherri C.
Cathlete
I'm not sure if any of you are interested in this suggestion, but it's really helping me, so I thought I'd throw it out there...
There were a few exercises that I did not perform the 1RM on (mostly because I didn't know what they were, or they had one star by them). When I did the 1st disc I guessed fairly accurately on the weight I should use. Now I'm on the 2nd week, and since everything is being inceased by 5%, I'm finding it very handy to go back in to the exercises and enter the 1RM so the correct weight will print on subsequent workout cards.
For example, for some reason I didn't do a 1RM test on Seated Rear Delts. I guessed and used 10 pounds, and it was a fairly good weight, so I took 10 divided by .6 (because the "% of One Rep Max" column shows 60%), so my 1RM = 17. I went into the One Rep Max calculator and entered a weight of 17 with 1 rep and now my workouts going forward will be calculated correctly.
There were also a few exercises where the weight it showed I should be lifting was just a little too high (probably because I picked a weight that I could do 20 reps and didn't go back and re-test). So if I lowered my weight half way through, then I simply recalcuted my 1RM based on the new weight and input it so that going forward the workout cards don't continue printing too high of a weight.
All and all I'm finding the 1RM to be very accurate and am glad I did the testing (I probably would have done more re-testing had I known how truly accurate it was going to be)
Just a suggestion... and please feel free to chime in and let me know if you think this is a good idea or if someone is doing something different.
There were a few exercises that I did not perform the 1RM on (mostly because I didn't know what they were, or they had one star by them). When I did the 1st disc I guessed fairly accurately on the weight I should use. Now I'm on the 2nd week, and since everything is being inceased by 5%, I'm finding it very handy to go back in to the exercises and enter the 1RM so the correct weight will print on subsequent workout cards.
For example, for some reason I didn't do a 1RM test on Seated Rear Delts. I guessed and used 10 pounds, and it was a fairly good weight, so I took 10 divided by .6 (because the "% of One Rep Max" column shows 60%), so my 1RM = 17. I went into the One Rep Max calculator and entered a weight of 17 with 1 rep and now my workouts going forward will be calculated correctly.
There were also a few exercises where the weight it showed I should be lifting was just a little too high (probably because I picked a weight that I could do 20 reps and didn't go back and re-test). So if I lowered my weight half way through, then I simply recalcuted my 1RM based on the new weight and input it so that going forward the workout cards don't continue printing too high of a weight.
All and all I'm finding the 1RM to be very accurate and am glad I did the testing (I probably would have done more re-testing had I known how truly accurate it was going to be)
Just a suggestion... and please feel free to chime in and let me know if you think this is a good idea or if someone is doing something different.
