Beginning Stage 2 went as follows:
VO2 Max Snatches, 15:15 style with the 24kg:
20 sets @ 6 reps/set = 120 reps = 6,360 lbs.
Damn! This was hard. Thankfully, it was brief. I did decide to jump up to 6 reps/set instead of 5 because it kept my rhythm going better during the 15 second set. I know I will be able to do 7 reps/set eventually but my conditioning is going to need to improve a lot. This was taxing to my strength, unlike the 16kg.
I can really feel it a lot in my grip right now as well as my back and arms. I also realized it is the most snatches I have ever done with the 24 in one workout: PR!
I pretty much gave 24kg snatches a rest after passing the RKC back in April.
Stop here if you don't want to do math.
If my math is right, this represents a 23% increase in effort over my 7 rep efforts with the 16 kg.
12 reps/min x 53lbs = 636lbs./min. 636-490= 146lbs more than lifting the 35lber for 7 reps/set (14 reps/min). 146/636 = .2295
February 13, 2008
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OK Jim,
You did 14 reps with 16kg.
Then, you did 12 reps with 24kg.
14 reps with 16kg equals 224kg per minute.
12 reps with 24kg equals 288kg per minute.
Compared to 224kg, 288kg is 28.58% more. In other words, you increased your output by 28.58% compared to the 16kg workout.
Don't sell yourself short. A 128-lb bench press is 28% more than a 100-lb bench press. What you're doing is mathematically no different.
Thanks again, Aaron.
wasn't trying to sell myself short, just displaying my poor ability at translating my experience into valid numbers.
I guess my math really does bite.
So does the number I came up with actually mean anything (besides me sucking at math?) or is it pure nonsense? Honestly I can see what you did but don't understand WHY what you did is correct and what I did is not.
Jim, when doing percentages, it matters if you're increasing or decreasing.
You're numbers are fine, but they measure the amount of decrease you would experience by falling back on the previous workout.
going from 4 to 5 is a 25% increase.
going from 5 to 4 is a 20% decrease.
You go from 4 to 5 and call it a 20% increase, which is incorrect, because you're calculating backward from 5 when you should be calculating forward from 4. A 20% increase from 4 would be 4.80.
Once again, you are making sense but I am not intuitively getting how the percentage can differ going 'forwards' or 'backwards' but it figures I would get it ass-backwards when it comes to calculations!
Thanks for the patient, lucid explanation, I find it fascinating, both in and of itself, and for the fact that my brain just doesn't do that stuff well at all.
My brain does other stuff better: check out my 'other' blog. I am getting into photography after almost a 30 year hiatus. http://www.naturalobservations.blogspot.com
Jim, percentages are relative; amounts are absolute.
Increase the amounts, and you are improving. I'll check out your other blog. From none, you now have two? That's awesome!
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