Today's Sally

[mr brightside]

I wish! Previously, 11 reps per min.. Today 10 reps min.. That 10% difference per set is very significant and obviously cumulatively more challenging with each set. That's why I'm 50/50 fail at 12 reps. An extra 20% really hurts. The effort all becomes markedly difficult in the last 2 to 3 sets, where performance falls off a cliff. And once that happens your recovery time for the next set is diminished to the point it can be extremely hard. Give it a go?

You'll have to describe to me exactly what you do. I could do 10 pressups a minute all morning long, but something must be making it more difficult i feel?

[Mike T]

2 chin-ups EMOM x 20, so 40 in total.

[Mossdog]

Dumbbell bicep curls. 2 X 12.5 kg. Simultaneous lifting with both arms.Eccentric lowering. 2 mins break between sets, during which I did x( 10) reps of floor to lock to floor press-ups. Curl Reps were to failure, per set.

25 (10) - 15 (10) - 10 (10) - 11 (10) - 11 (10) - 10 (10) - 9 (10)

[Mossdog]

You'll have to describe to me exactly what you do. I could do 10 pressups a minute all morning long, but something must be making it more difficult i feel?

If you can do 10 floor to lock to floor press-ups, in a minute, for consecutive minutes, all day long, than I salute you Sir! I think the best I've managed to do consecutively was 23 sets of EMOMs or so.

I can sometimes churn out 12 reps per min for 10 consecutive mins, but no more than 10 sets. I've not tried pumping out 11 reps per minute until failure but guess it would be 12 to 13 sets - that's an idea though!

[Mossdog]

2 chin-ups EMOM x 20, so 40 in total.

More power to your elbow (literally and metaphorically). Good stuff Mike!

[mr brightside]

If you can do 10 floor to lock to floor press-ups, in a minute, for consecutive minutes, all day long, than I salute you Sir! I think the best I've managed to do consecutively was 23 sets of EMOMs or so.

I can sometimes churn out 12 reps per min for 10 consecutive mins, but no more than 10 sets. I've not tried pumping out 11 reps per minute until failure but guess it would be 12 to 13 sets - that's an idea though!

You can just get up and walk around in between the reps, how hard can it be? It sounds easier than you and Mike seem to report it to be.

[Mossdog]

You can just get up and walk around in between the reps, how hard can it be? It sounds easier than you and Mike seem to report it to be.

Yes, if there are any seconds remaining of the minute (say 45 secs for example), you can get up, shake your arms out, and be back into position (flat on the floor, face down) just before the next minute begins when you have to push out again(the next set of reps).

There's the same option, to stretch, for every one of the 10 consecutive minutes. However, when you've an intention to do (in my case for example) 12 reps per set, the final few sets (for me at least) become a massive struggle, with little time to recover at all - hence marginal successes.

Having said that, if you can rattle these out no bother Mr B, then in comparison we're obviously complete wusses that need to try harder.

[mr brightside]

It's just very hard to get a benchmark on difficulty when you have nothing to go on; i don't even understand the reference in the thread title. The best yardstick is age and gender...

I accepted your invite nevertheless and gave it a go, my remaining times were- 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 47, 47. I'm disappointed about the tailing off at the end, and i wouldn't be able to do it all morning as my tennis elbow was flaring up by number 7.

[Mike T]

It's just very hard to get a benchmark on difficulty when you have nothing to go on; i don't even understand the reference in the thread title. The best yardstick is age and gender...

I accepted your invite nevertheless and gave it a go, my remaining times were- 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, 47, 47. I'm disappointed about the tailing off at the end, and i wouldn't be able to do it all morning as my tennis elbow was flaring up by number 7.

Chest on the floor variety? If so, well done.

[mr brightside]

I did it off a 15kg bar so chest just clear of the bar, I can get my wrists lined up better off a bar.