What exactly is displayed on Curves (for Women) Smart equipment?
What’s funny is, IF it turns out to be that the only way to increase intensity/resistance on the Smart equipment is to move faster (like the original set-up), thereby performing more reps in the same time frame, then this conflicts with a study that Baylor University did on Curves ( www3.baylor.edu/HHPR/Curves/CurvesNational2005.pdf — pages 11 and 13). The study tested women at 20, 25, and 30 reps in 30 seconds, and the final recommendation was to perform a maximum of 20; otherwise, form degraded. Now, if you combine an upper rep limit of 20 (which dictates a certain speed, and, hence, resistance) with a set resistance (which would never change, since the speed wouldn’t), then you have no progress once a person can perform 20 reps in 30 seconds. This would be equivalent to determining that someone could lift 100 lbs. for 10 reps, then never giving them any more weight, nor allowing them to do any more reps. I think this would be very discouraging to those Curves users who’ve been doin
