So, we're going to do our 1RM measurements tomorrow (Tuesday) as we start our periodization program. I received a nice bit of advice on my last post on this topic. First, as Chris D. points out, you can pretty much do 1RM on any exercise but some would be silly. Second, you can approximate the 1RM based on what you can do at higher RMs as Ralph Shaw informed me, and one of my reference books, Serious Strength Training by Bompa and company, even includes a reference table for doing this. Perhaps more important was Ralph's point was that you improve on what you train for. We'll we're following the 1RM wonder Bompa now, and we're going to give this a shot and see where it leads.
So, now we've decided to do all of our 1RMs tomorrow. We're going to train together Tuesday and Wendesday this week (maybe Friday). It seemed we should just try to get it over with to have a performance benchmark to measure against. I'm wondering if this is our smartest move as we want to do five (Nancy's wildly ambitious), and it seems warm-up and recovery are key. Here are our 1RM exercises:
- Bench press
- Squat
- Deadlift
- T-bar row
- DB shoulder press
If you drop a note on the blog before 1:15 tomorrow, you can save us from ourselves. Otherwise, you can read my report tomorrow.
I think your pushing it with doing all of those on one day, but it if in the end you test the same way you'll be good. The max Deadlift especially may put you in a deficit for awhile since it taxes the CNS quite a bit. That's what I've found.
On the other hand I look forward to seeing what numbers you guys put up.
Posted by: Chris D. | May 30, 2006 at 10:51
I'm not easily impressed. . . but that's impesrsnig me! :)
Posted by: Caelyn | May 04, 2011 at 08:57