Range Test Form

Don't forget to stretch and warm-up first for at least 15 minutes. Then be careful, if you can have someone there to help you set the weights, and to help you if you get into trouble, do so. One stupid overload, can stop your exercise for a long time.

When you are warmed up, you want to find the maximum load that you can safely handle and do 5 repeated reps (times). Can I emphasize that again, SAFELY handle.

The information you need to collect about your range tests are as follows:

The Machine Name

For each of 5 "machines" write down the machine name or "exercise" that you want to use to identify your torture.

Minmum Load

This is the base of the weight range. Some machines start at 40 pounds, you just can't get lower than that. In most cases the answer is 0.

Maximum Load

This is the magic number that you can safely perform 5 times. This will probably be hard to find as it will take 3-4 attempts at the wrong positions until you feel you got the right one.

Granularity

This is the size of the steps between the minimum load and the next step up. In otherwords, a weight machine might start at 20 pounds and each additional weight adds 10 pounds, then this number would be 10. If I were lifting books, hopefully this number would be "1".

Unit

This is the unit of measure for the granularity, books, pounds, inches, seconds.. what ever.

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