{"id":351233,"date":"2022-01-27T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=351233"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T23:19:20","slug":"strength-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/27\/strength-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d unless you are prepared to attempt a new personal record, in terms of overall weight, or repetitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means, for any given movement, do not do it more than once a week. For example, if I attempt a new <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/one-rep-max-2\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"329150\">one rep max<\/a> for my <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/how-i-squat\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"286585\">squat<\/a>, and whether I succeed or fail, I will not do it at least for another week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/peak-physical-strength\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"293402\">bodyweight<\/a> exercises, let us say it comes to chin ups. I will not do any chin ups, unless I do it as an attempt to attempt to break my previous personal record for the number of total chin-ups I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even with <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/11\/in-praise-of-kettlebells\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"305891\">kettlebell<\/a> exercises, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just do it every day or every day as a form of discipline training. Rather, better to attempt a new personal record in any of your kettlebell swings once a week, than to do it every day with regularity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u0153work out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d unless you are prepared to attempt a new personal record, in terms of overall weight, or repetitions. This means, for any given movement, do not do it more than once a \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ERIC-KIM-sumo-deadlift-one-rep-max-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351240,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351233\/revisions\/351240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}