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Originally Posted by maggieandmommy
for some of them...It depends on how grossly you underestimated your starting weights or how much you've improved (but more the first one, I think). Lou says in the book that most women underestimate what they can lift by at least 20%, so that's part of the plan here, I think. They want us to go back to our starting weight to see how many reps we're able to do with that weight now, in part, I think, to make us think twice when we get started on the next round so that we start with a more realistic weight. It's not that we've improved that much--it's that we were stronger than we thought at the beginning.
That said, some people skip the AMRAP special workouts because they don't see the point.  |
I did the AMRAP in stage one and was so bored halfway through the workout I had to stop. However, exactly like you pointed out, the lesson I took away was that I can lift more than I think I can and I used that info moving forward when selecting a new weight.