Repetition As A Diagnostic Tool
"Repetition is the mother of pedagogy" says Dennis Prager. So I have a barbell with about 50% of my 1 repetition max on it that I am teaching myself to be able to elevate off the ground when I am cold. The reasoning is that if I really am "generally physically prepared" as is my primary intent of doing CrossFit, I should be able to deadlift a heavy motorcycle off of someone who just crashed, for example. They don't have time for me to do a dynamic warm-up while their leg is being burned by a hot exhaust pipe...but my real point is about repetition as a diagnostic tool. Each time I lift that weight, my perception of the "heaviness" varies wildly. This stimulates learning because I now have a new goal which is to figure out where that inconsistency comes from. I do not have a way to predict how that weight will feel yet. It is only through repeating the lift throughout the day, every day that I can create a predictive model for how "heavy" the ...