Repetition As A Diagnostic Tool

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"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 bar will be. Once I collect more data through repetition, I will be able to diagnose the problematic lifts. Did I sit for a long time before the difficult lifts? Am I stressed? etc. - But the only way to learn this is to have enough traction through repetition.
Common Core proponents, are you hearing this?

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