Weights Entry – on time instead of reps (Read 418 times)

Hi Eric, The summer is approaching and it not funny to be cooped up in the gym But since I cannot run at the moment I need to do other kind of exercises. I’m planning to do my strength training on time instead on a specific number of reps (I don’t know the English term for this kind of workout). For example instead of doing 15 push ups three times I will do push ups for 30 seconds and the have a pause for 15 seconds or something, then I’ll do another exercise for 30 seconds – and so on until I’ve been through the planned exercises and all the planned sets. My suggestions/wish it to make a drop down box in the “Edit strength training entry” form so I can choose between "Reps" and "Sec". Just like you can choose between "kg" and "lb". I hope you have the time to make this change. Thanks for an excellent tool. It motivates me very much in my training. Kind regards, Efes

Hi Eric, Perhaps that would be a possibility but since I don’t travel any distance but is doing a number of sets (And in some cases I'm going to use weigths too) it wouldn’t be the best way – at least that’s the way I see it. Perhaps I didn't explain myself good enough? Besides it is a kind of strength training that I want to do so… Well I guess I’m just going to type seconds in the Reps filed. All though there is no way I’m ever going to do 30 or 60 push ups I just hoped for a more descriptive information //Efes

Efes... I do a similar workout. When I do bother to log individual weight exercises, which I have admittedly not done in a while I list my reps as 1 and put the on/off duration in the notes. It is as useful as anything in reality. Lifting 15 s x 4 sets is not equivalent to lifting 60 seconds anyway so the unit is kinda meaningless . I do 8 sets of 20/10's when I do that format. It kicks serious butt. And I know you cant even estimate reps because usually in set 1 20 s is 10-12 reps and in set 8 it is about 4-5