Thinking about doing a broken 200 back in practice tomorrow just to see where I am. In my age-group days, we used to do these and break 10 seconds at the 50. The time we would get (after subtracting the 10 second rest breaks) was surprisingly close to what we would do in a meet.
I'm wondering if I should change the amount of rest between each 50 since I am older now. Will I still get an accurate picture with 10 seconds rest or should I go with 15?
Did you do this all in one workout session? If so, that must have been painful!
Also, do you think that there was a "fatigue factor", i.e. would the add-ups have been much different if you did the test in a different order?
Yes, it was a test set done in a single pratice. Good question about the fatigue factor- a lot of times my 2nd or 3rd rep in any test set is a little faster, so between the fatigue and warming up within the set, it would be tough to say that all things were equal for each 200.
But I think the same could be said if done between days (e.g did weights the day before one rep but not before another, later in the week so more fatigued for this rep). I'll certainly repeat this experiment though, and maybe consider doing them on separate days to see how it compares. It would certainly be less painful that way :)
Did you do this all in one workout session? If so, that must have been painful!
Also, do you think that there was a "fatigue factor", i.e. would the add-ups have been much different if you did the test in a different order?
Yes, it was a test set done in a single pratice. Good question about the fatigue factor- a lot of times my 2nd or 3rd rep in any test set is a little faster, so between the fatigue and warming up within the set, it would be tough to say that all things were equal for each 200.
But I think the same could be said if done between days (e.g did weights the day before one rep but not before another, later in the week so more fatigued for this rep). I'll certainly repeat this experiment though, and maybe consider doing them on separate days to see how it compares. It would certainly be less painful that way :)
