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Reps! How do you count them?

dacapo85 Posts: 46 Joined: 2005/03/29	2005/04/05, 01:18 PM When doing certain exercises, like Front Dumbell Raises, which require your hands to work separately, how do you count the reps and the pounds??? I'm really easily confused. I'm wondering this... Where you fill in the info on how many reps you completed and how many pounds you used: Do you count each weight amt from each hand/arm separately? or do you combine them? And with the reps, do you count one rep per hand/arm? Or do you bring one hand up, then the other and count one? :(
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2005/04/05, 01:23 PM I count one rep being the complete movement with one arm... for instance, right arm up and down, one, left are arm up and down, one... right arm up and down, two, left arm up and down, two... and so on... It doesn't matter if you input the combined weight or single weight, just be consistent, although with that particular exercise, I'd put in single arm weight... t -------------- This donut has purple in the middle, purple is a fruit. - Homer (Simpson) Be here. Live. Love. Hope. Now. Faith. Believe. You. - Keith Urban
dacapo85 Posts: 46 Joined: 2005/03/29	2005/04/05, 01:37 PM Oky, I get it. Thanks! :-D
thedominator Posts: 288 Joined: 2005/02/16	2005/04/05, 06:19 PM dacapo85.. u r asking same question at different places.. please avoid it.. as far as ur question... TimDay is right... he is saying the same thing what i said.. :).. one arm 1 and then the second arm 1 (so basically one rep from both arms is counted as 1)... its just how u count it.. thats all -------------- A life worth living is a life lived with honor and dignity..bow to no moral and bowed by none.. THATS ME
dacapo85 Posts: 46 Joined: 2005/03/29	2005/04/05, 06:22 PM ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! NOW I get it for sure. Thanks, guys!:big_smile:
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2005/04/06, 02:03 PM if you count each arm....instead of doing 10 reps you have to do 20....if you count each arm as one. -------------- " The only true eye, is your minds eye"- plato
Reddy Posts: 597 Joined: 2003/09/11	2005/04/06, 05:41 PM *blushes* I usually just lift both arms at the same time -------------- Reddy All people smile in the same language
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2005/04/06, 05:56 PM ============ Quoting from thedominator: dacapo85.. u r asking same question at different places.. please avoid it.. as far as ur question... TimDay is right... he is saying the same thing what i said.. :).. one arm 1 and then the second arm 1 (so basically one rep from both arms is counted as 1)... its just how u count it.. thats all ============= I always thought 1 and 1 is 2! I knew I shouldn't have played hooky! -------------- Scales are for dead weight: We are not dead yet! Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press. Ivan carivan@freetrainers.com Montreal Canada
	2005/04/06, 07:07 PM lol.... what's a dumbell? (yet another family guy joke)
Artemis-75 Posts: 208 Joined: 2005/03/25	2005/04/06, 10:13 PM I'm so glad that question was asked - :laugh::laugh::laugh: - I was going to post and ask if I was lifting 20 pound dumbells is tht 20 pounds or 40... But now I have the answer! I have been counting it at 20 and will continue to do so! Thanks!! :dumbbell::dumbbell::big_smile::dumbbell::dumbbell:
dacapo85 Posts: 46 Joined: 2005/03/29	2005/04/06, 11:28 PM woohoo! Sure thing. ;-) My pleasure to assist. ;-) lol. :cool:
thedominator Posts: 288 Joined: 2005/02/16	2005/04/09, 08:57 AM *blush*... i don't know why i'm so intelligent :surprised:.. i use to play cricket.. will that make some difference? :big_smile: ============ Quoting from carivan: ============= -------------- A life worth living is a life lived with honor and dignity..bow to no moral and bowed by none.. THATS ME