Any experienced STRENDER will tell you that is not a bad idea. Three push and
two pull exercises. Back off a rep or two on the bench, and you will easily
make it up plus a rep or two on the shoulder or dips. Remember dips are the
shortest range of motion and a discipline that can yield a bounty of reps if you
concentrate on them.
Remember the more reps you do, the more fatigued you are for the run.
However it depends on your competition. If you know someone is going to score
120 reps or they went before you and scored 120 reps, and you are capable of 140
reps but are a slower runner you have to take into consideration how much each
rep is worth compared to the run.
140 and a 20 minute run is a 7.0 120 and a 17:08.5 run is about a 7.0. 20
rep difference but the athlete had to run about 172 seconds faster to beat you.
So it paid off to get the higher reps. That is like 8.6 seconds a rep! Makes
sense to go for as many reps as possible and just do your best on the run.

This ratio changes depending on the athletes involved and how many reps they are
capable of achieving. I.E. Athlete A 205 reps and a 20:00 run (10.25) and
athlete B capable of 187 reps needs a sub 18:15 run time to equal or beat
athlete A.
The difference is only 1:45 or so on the three mile run - or about 5.83
seconds per rep.
A bit more complicated. Bottom line- is play your strengths. The better runner
usually has the advantage coming off the weights unless he is just a pure runner
and does not have much strength, because running is finite. There is a limit to
how fast you can go. You can always score an extra rep or two. If you only
score 100 and you are trying to beat a guy who just did 200 reps, it is not
really possible, even if 200 reps divided by a 28:00 run time = 7.1428
100/7.1428 = 14:00. If you could run 3 miles in 14 minutes after 100 reps,
you would not be at a STREND competition because you would be capable of 13:15
or better in an open 5,000 meters and be sponsored by NIKE. You get the
picture.

Hope that helps. Best to practice different scenarios in the gym before testing
it out in an actual comp.






Matt

strend666 <strend666@...> wrote:
This past July Myself and my son Danny took part in our first Strend
event. The Event was in Hamilton Ontario and Leslie and the crew did a
great job. Running this past weekend with a group of non-strenders one
of the guys said "instead of maxing out on all of your lifts why not
stop one or two short, that way you would not be so spent for the run.
Of course my answer was thats the whole point maxing out and dieing on
the run...but then I started thinking (always a problem) maybe you
could actually get a better score by not killing yourself for that
last rep or two. Anybody got any throughts on the subject. Thanks Dan
Ganley





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