Who the fuck approved this as a rule? It’s just a calculation of wealth distribution among social classes long ago in Italy. Yes, another Italian thinker.
You can just use it to conclude that 20% of what you do will deliver the big 80% of results.
This “rule” has been mentioned in several posts as a defence to attacking curls and other isolation movements.
-A thought about this rule I wanted to share:
For this Sunday session, I thought and decided to concentrate on 2 movements, approving for the afternoon:
Military Press
Dumbell Hammer Curls + Dumbell Pronated Press (combined into 1 movement).
(In that order of course)
This exercise election would be close to the 80:20 distribution of results.
Shortly before my workout I was feeling more energized than when I selected to do the first 2, so I switched to a new selection:
Back Squats
Military Press
(Yes, in that order)
Now this new selection does not appear to me to be close to 80:20. More like 75:25 - 65:35.
It could be a different evaluation of routines.
Will it be useful to give it a second to calculate the predicted results after a workout and tracking what distributions repeatedly are best? Maybe I will if tomorrow I keep think this idea is interesting.
[quote]bignate wrote:
what the fuck does this mean… or am i retarded?[/quote]
It’s just some thoughts, sorry if I’m not asking questions.
Instead of using the so called 80:20 rule to bash isolation movements (even with free weights this happens), deviating from these numbers could help select exercises according to your sspecific hypertrophy desires.
Lol What is the 80% based off of? In other words, what do you consider 100%?
Honestly I don’t quite have a deep grasp of the concept. All that I learned in school from it (last year), is that if the world was divided into 100 cookies, 2 people would get 80 and the other 8 would get 20. Seriously, we actually distributed cookies and stuff. It was like the double stuffed oreos. I remember becuase I was one of the two people that got the 80 cookies. It tasted amazing… What were we talking about?
After thinking about this for a bit, I think you’re confused, OP.
The Pareto principle is not a rule, it’s a general observation. 80% / 20% are not definite numbers, they’re an estimate.
From wikipedia: “There is nothing special about the number 80% mathematically, but many real systems have k somewhere around this region of intermediate imbalance in distribution.”
In a nutshell, it means that a majority of the results will come from a minority of the people / effort / investment / whatever. I have no idea where the hell your numbers came from, but trying to apply the principle in any sort of exact way when it comes to lifting is beyond retarded.
I heard someone use this saying to describe their diet on the radio this morning.
Log in to T-Nation and someone is using it to set up their exercise selection.
All I can think is that it must have been mentioned on Jersey Shore or The Kardashions and now every tool-box thinks they found a secret weapon.
[quote]florelius wrote:
I use Marx`s classical class analysis when I make my excercise selection.
Curls and similar are burgeois excercises, while squats, deads etc are my proletarien excercises.
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Yeah, no kidding.
I am going to use Einstein’s, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” , saying to found a fitness movement. The mainstay of the movement will be to keep a journal counting what counts. It will be revolutionary!