For as long as I can remember I have always counted reps in every exercise I did. The other day I was doing the plank exercise during which I count to 180 --3 mins or close to it. I decided to stop counting and try to hold for the duration of a song on the radio. To my surprise I was completely discombobulated. I probably only held for a fraction of the time before I quit. I was so confused by this I had to post and see if anyone else had this experience. Was I at 180--60--200--no clue and panic?
I think this goes back to the governor theory and by not counting I threw the body's natural regulators into confusion. I realize the length of the song varies and is probably longer than if I were counting but what a difference. I rarely do reps until failure so I guess this is kinda like what that would be. I would like to get a minute timer and do reps until the buzzer sounds to see what this would be like.
Hopefully in a couple more weeks I'm going to go for 100 pushups and I'll be interested to see if the timer helps me to push by the rep number wall my brain has created. Confusing? When I get to 50 I start to think about how much farther I need to go. Maybe a timer would take my mind to a different place where I could relax and accomplish what I know my strength will allow me to do instead of tensing up and collapse in failure. Maybe Yoga. The 100 pushup site says to count to ten only then another ten and another until you reach 100.
So for fun I'm going to try something different instead of counting reps.
I think this goes back to the governor theory and by not counting I threw the body's natural regulators into confusion. I realize the length of the song varies and is probably longer than if I were counting but what a difference. I rarely do reps until failure so I guess this is kinda like what that would be. I would like to get a minute timer and do reps until the buzzer sounds to see what this would be like.
Hopefully in a couple more weeks I'm going to go for 100 pushups and I'll be interested to see if the timer helps me to push by the rep number wall my brain has created. Confusing? When I get to 50 I start to think about how much farther I need to go. Maybe a timer would take my mind to a different place where I could relax and accomplish what I know my strength will allow me to do instead of tensing up and collapse in failure. Maybe Yoga. The 100 pushup site says to count to ten only then another ten and another until you reach 100.
So for fun I'm going to try something different instead of counting reps.