I was thinking while I was in the gym earlier about how it might be useful to re-examine ideas about how cycling works. For example with your normal
Pavel-linear kind of thing, you start at say 60% and add 5#s or ?% a workout until you reach a peak and then back down. There are variations in other shapes
like stairsteps and such, but its still a very even linear progression.
Suppose instead that you worked this as a curve individualize to the way you actually progress best. There could be a "toe" which starts at 60%, works up quickly to the area around 70%, levels off and gives you a long and shallow slope to 85% then turns upward to where you attack a steeper slope leading to a PR in short time so you dont spend enough time to stale out at the high poundages.
If it suited the way you are, you could work the other way as well, with a sharp toe, a steeper rise around the middle and leveling out at the right spot to make a shallow slope at the top after the shoulder. If you are someone who is suited to the heavy end of things rather than the "power" (mass-vel.) part of the curve. If you thrive and gain most by working in the power area then going up quickly to a PR or your goal, then draw it that way....
It wouldnt take long to see how a better more individualized curve could be drawn rather than just a straight line. You just do your straight line and check the parts where you have the most difficulty making the transitions. Or if you know you really thrive at the heavy end then make most of the cycle up there. Just draw the curve, refined to be better each time around, the way that makes you most likely you will hit a PR or your goal.
Im going to write something for myself in this mold based on a few pretty good guesses I have in mind. It seems like the perfect time to try this, especially for the bent press.
Bryce
Suppose instead that you worked this as a curve individualize to the way you actually progress best. There could be a "toe" which starts at 60%, works up quickly to the area around 70%, levels off and gives you a long and shallow slope to 85% then turns upward to where you attack a steeper slope leading to a PR in short time so you dont spend enough time to stale out at the high poundages.
If it suited the way you are, you could work the other way as well, with a sharp toe, a steeper rise around the middle and leveling out at the right spot to make a shallow slope at the top after the shoulder. If you are someone who is suited to the heavy end of things rather than the "power" (mass-vel.) part of the curve. If you thrive and gain most by working in the power area then going up quickly to a PR or your goal, then draw it that way....
It wouldnt take long to see how a better more individualized curve could be drawn rather than just a straight line. You just do your straight line and check the parts where you have the most difficulty making the transitions. Or if you know you really thrive at the heavy end then make most of the cycle up there. Just draw the curve, refined to be better each time around, the way that makes you most likely you will hit a PR or your goal.
Im going to write something for myself in this mold based on a few pretty good guesses I have in mind. It seems like the perfect time to try this, especially for the bent press.
Bryce
