EPTOn September 29 2011 22:04 Daigomi wrote:
My favourite part of that comic is the hovertext:
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My favourite part of that comic is the hovertext:
TBH, the fitocracy point system is pretty retarded...
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
TBH, the fitocracy point system is pretty retarded... | ||
Daigomi
South Africa4316 Posts
On September 30 2011 00:39 Cambium wrote: TBH, the fitocracy point system is pretty retarded... I dunno, I think everyone has their own opinions of what should score a lot of points and what shouldn't, but as things go the Fitocracy system is fairly good. You get the most points for the exercises that use the most muscles, and the least points for the muscle-specific exercises. No doubt there are one or two exercises that need fine-tuning, but overall I think it's pretty good. | ||
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Hurricane
United States3939 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:22 Daigomi wrote: I dunno, I think everyone has their own opinions of what should score a lot of points and what shouldn't, but as things go the Fitocracy system is fairly good. You get the most points for the exercises that use the most muscles, and the least points for the muscle-specific exercises. No doubt there are one or two exercises that need fine-tuning, but overall I think it's pretty good. No, I mostly mean the way it calculates reps rather than different exercises The difference between a set of X and a set of 1 is negligible... I think an additional rep is like +1 or +2 pts... lol | ||
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:26 Hurricane wrote: What are the thoughts on logging warm up reps? I never write them down because it's a warm up, but I see people logging them. Up to you. I log them. It's for yourself. Points on fitocracy is just an added motivation, and you should use it as such. I log my exercises in spurs, and I can only go back one week maximum, so I'm missing tens of thousands of points lol | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:41 infinity21 wrote: Yeah if I logged my 5x5 squats as 25x1, I'm sure I'd be getting a lot more points lol Do you work out at PAC? It's actually one of the best gyms I've been to. Lots people who are serious about lifting too, and the trainers actually know what they are talking about, at least the ones I've talked to. | ||
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:52 Cambium wrote: Do you work out at PAC? It's actually one of the best gyms I've been to. Lots people who are serious about lifting too, and the trainers actually know what they are talking about, at least the ones I've talked to. Yeah I like training there. I see a lot of regulars there who are deadlifting 300+lbs. Thankfully, there's enough bros with fuckarounditis that I usually don't have to wait to do squats. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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Schmexi
Sweden341 Posts
On September 30 2011 03:03 Alejandrisha wrote: All the invites in the OP have run dry. Is there a way to join w/o an invite? I don't see a standard "register here" button O_O Page 7 has a lot of invites, I got mine there 5 minutes ago, you should too! | ||
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Daigomi
South Africa4316 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:40 Cambium wrote: No, I mostly mean the way it calculates reps rather than different exercises The difference between a set of X and a set of 1 is negligible... I think an additional rep is like +1 or +2 pts... lol I think it's to get people to do smaller sets of heavy weights rather than big sets with light weights.The idea being, if you can only do five reps, you clearly taxes your strength to the max giving big gains, but if you did twenty reps, the weight was too light. As far as I know, this is valid and its the reason we're doing 5x5 and not 1x25. On September 30 2011 03:03 Alejandrisha wrote: All the invites in the OP have run dry. Is there a way to join w/o an invite? I don't see a standard "register here" button O_O Check the previous page of this thread, there are at least five invite codes there. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
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ShadowDrgn
United States2497 Posts
On September 30 2011 02:26 Hurricane wrote: What are the thoughts on logging warm up reps? I never write them down because it's a warm up, but I see people logging them. I didn't log warm ups at first, but after I realized that my warm ups were worth more points than my work sets, I caved in. Points for sets are calculated by extrapolating your 1RM based on weight and number of reps, which is reasonable. For example, someone who can do 135x5 should be able to do 152x1 so the two are worth the same number of points. The problem is that points for increasing weight scale linearly so you can score way more by doing five singles of 135 instead of a set of five. If points scaled exponentially, however, newbies would get like 100 points per workout and experienced lifters would get 10,000. Alternatively, they could just assign points by total weight lifted (then 1x5x135 == 5x1x135), but that would simply favor doing tons of reps at light weight. Ultimately the entire site is on the honor system so worrying about cheating the numbers is kinda irrelevant. | ||
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emperorchampion
Canada9496 Posts
On September 30 2011 05:03 ShadowDrgn wrote: Ultimately the entire site is on the honor system so worrying about cheating the numbers is kinda irrelevant. This exactly are my thoughts on the site. It's just another cool way of logging my exercises and see what other people are doing :D | ||
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DoubleZee
Canada556 Posts
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Raidern
Brazil3811 Posts
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Guaska
Brazil12 Posts
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Hurricane
United States3939 Posts
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Erzz
Canada184 Posts
I used yours! Thanks! My invite link is http://ftcy.co/nOtdyt | ||
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Guaska
Brazil12 Posts
Btw, used your invite Hurricane Here is my invite link: http://ftcy.co/nCA2vL | ||
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