Showing posts with label Borg scale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Borg scale. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Back-off Light (5-B)

Last Saturday my body told me to back-off. So, this week I'll shoot for about 50% volume and 75% intensity and/or exertion based on last week. Also, I'm going to replace the 15-point Borg Scale, which uses 20 as it highest and 6 the lowest, with a 10-point scale. Actually, it's 12 points, but I never plan to log the highest point or the lowest point as a measure in my blog. It just makes more sense, even though I'll probably continue to use pluses and minuses. Here's what my 10-Point Plus Scale version will represent:
0 - Meditation or sleep
1 - Very slow movement
2 - Heart and lungs begin to increase
3 - Very light
4 - Light
5 - Fairly light
6 - Moderate
7 - Fairly hard
8 - Hard
9 - Very hard
10 - Very close to failure or gasping for air
10+ - Failure or not breathing!

28kg RKC TGUs:
5-second pause x 7 steps up and 6 steps down x 1/1
Time under tension 2:10.

1-second pause x 7 steps up and 6 steps down x 1/1 x 2
Time under tension 2:00.

Total time under tension 4:10.
(RPE 7)

28kg Snatch Alternating L&R x 7 on the minute x 10.
(RPE 6)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

MVO2 Session 4

15:15 MVO2 protocol:
16kg x 8 reps x 40 sets

This is just a little more than what I had "planned", as I am practicing this objectively measured protocol by using my subjective feel. My last session, #3, felt very intense, RPE=19 (Rate of Perceived Exertion) using the 15-Point Borg scale. This session, RPE=17, I felt I could have done a few more sets but didn't want to push it. Haven't we all been a little too enthusiastic and over done it?

The factor(s) for reasoning or the reason(s) for factoring the how and why intensity differs from day-to-day is Greco-Danish to me, but I do understand that all variables matter and the mind and body are connected. :)

Sources:

Report on Perceived Exertion (PDF)

Borg Scale

Differences in self-reported perceived and objective measures of duration and intensity of physical activity for adults in skiing.

Acute exercise and positive effect: an investigation of psychological processes leading to affective change.

Effects of acute bouts of aerobic exercise of varied intensity on subjective mood experiences in women of different age groups across time.