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WARNING! This thread is sort of silly. And it is in Kilograms.
Since my first weights session in October 2009 I have meticulously recorded my lifts in an excel spreadsheet. For example, if I benched I would write
3x5x65
Yesterday I had a brainwave that if I converted this to a single number I would be able to graph my progress in each lift. Sounded pretty cool. A few hours later I converted said lifts to
=3*5*65
And excel would give it a number of
975
Which is basically the kilos I have lifted in the session.
With great excitement I took all the data and got excel to generate a graph...
...but it didn't really work. And the reason is for about the first 50% of my lifting career I was lifting 3 sets of 6 reps, then I changed to 3 sets of 5 reps.
And the problem with this should be apparent. The more reps the easier to get a higher total.
A bench press of 3x6x65 is equivalent to 3x5x78. Clearly it is much harder to do 3x5x78
So the question...
What do I do? I would like to have a standard progression.
So far my ideas include
- change all my sets of 6 to 5
- record only the final lift
- come up with some sort of formula to chart how difficult a workout was
Since my first weights session in October 2009 I have meticulously recorded my lifts in an excel spreadsheet. For example, if I benched I would write
3x5x65
Yesterday I had a brainwave that if I converted this to a single number I would be able to graph my progress in each lift. Sounded pretty cool. A few hours later I converted said lifts to
=3*5*65
And excel would give it a number of
975
Which is basically the kilos I have lifted in the session.
With great excitement I took all the data and got excel to generate a graph...
...but it didn't really work. And the reason is for about the first 50% of my lifting career I was lifting 3 sets of 6 reps, then I changed to 3 sets of 5 reps.
And the problem with this should be apparent. The more reps the easier to get a higher total.
A bench press of 3x6x65 is equivalent to 3x5x78. Clearly it is much harder to do 3x5x78
So the question...
What do I do? I would like to have a standard progression.
So far my ideas include
- change all my sets of 6 to 5
- record only the final lift
- come up with some sort of formula to chart how difficult a workout was