will this work?

[thinsgreat]

i am meeting a friend at the gym this weekend. if i take the sts user's guide, can i just follow the one rep max chart and then input the data when i get home?

are you following the user guide or are you watching the discs and starting and stopping?

also, do i have this right--- my goal is to find the greatest weight i can do 12 reps and keep good form? i wonder how many tries this will take?

 

[shanihib]

Your goal is 8-10 reps to failure but not sacrificing good form (once you lose it, you are done).

I have been using my guide, figuring out quite a few, and then entering later. It works fine. If you go over 10 reps though, you need to retest!

 

[NancyAZ]

SNM, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the threshhold for having to repeat a test is 10 reps. That's the goal that you shoot for, but even in the tutorial it is demonstrated that the test went to 12 reps and was entered for 1RM calcuation. I have read that the further away you get from 10 in either direction the less accurate it will be, but that is only when you're talking about more than 5 or more above or below.

For example, if you can only do 4 reps, then you really have selected too heavy and should re-test. If you can do 16 reps then you've selected too light and you're pushing the accuracy.

I'm not a math wiz, but I would also think this count would become less critical for leg work when you're doing tests of 50+ pounds. The margin for error, I believe, would become larger.

 

[shanihib]

One of the original excel 1RM test spreadsheets gives the message RETEST if you go over 10. It could be a mistake in the design of the spreadsheet, or it could be based on the correct count. I also want to hear the answer as I've hit 11 many times, and had to retest!

 

[SNM Videos]

You just want to have failure close to 10 reps, but as long as you're close you will be fine. We would like you to be in the 7 to 13 rep range.

 

[NancyAZ]

One of the original excel 1RM test spreadsheets gives the message RETEST if you go over 10. It could be a mistake in the design of the spreadsheet, or it could be based on the correct count. I also want to hear the answer as I've hit 11 many times, and had to retest!

I think I know what spreadsheet you're referring to, and that was shared by a board member who created it, not by SNM.

 

[shanihib]

Man, I could have stopped without repeating SO many 1RM tests! LOL... well, I definitely got a good workout in! LOL

 

[christosz]

One of the original excel 1RM test spreadsheets gives the message RETEST if you go over 10. It could be a mistake in the design of the spreadsheet, or it could be based on the correct count. I also want to hear the answer as I've hit 11 many times, and had to retest!

Shani,

I made the excel spreadsheet a while back and also included the 1RM calculator in one field which you can delete if you want and just enter weights and reps so you can track them.
I decided to go with the "RETEST" option if the reps are over 10 (according to a weight-lifting site where I also got the 1RM calculation formula), so we could all redo the testing since we had plenty of time back then!!!
Now, if you're in a hurry, just ignore or delete the formula fields and just enter weights + reps in the spreadsheet and then copy them in WM.

Chris.