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The discussion focuses on calculating the impulse force experienced by a machine lifting a 100-pound weight at a velocity of 2 m/s, particularly during the transition from lowering to lifting. Key points include the necessity of deceleration over a time interval to avoid instantaneous stops, which significantly affects the impulse force. Participants emphasize that the force on the machine can exceed its rated capacity of 125 pounds, especially during rapid changes in motion. The conversation also touches on the differences in force required for lifting versus lowering, with estimates suggesting that higher forces may be needed during quick lifts. Overall, the discussion highlights the complexity of accurately measuring forces in dynamic lifting scenarios.
  • #101
sophiecentaur I see you’re an Engineer, so hopefully you will be able to understand what I am saying, even thou a lot is not in pure physics talk, please, and I am not being sarcastic, as I know people find it hard the way I explain things, but please do you understand what I am trying to say in the below please ?

And please, if you agree with me or not, {AND YOU D.} do you understand what I am trying to say convey too you ? As this is very important, as it makes no difference if you agree or not now, only that you both and other members actually understand what I am “trying” to say ?

My other point is, that I don’t think that when I am using far higher forces, like 100 pounds for the accelerations, that when I am then using slightly less force than 80 pounds for the decelerations, that when the slow rep is roughly using a constant 80 pounds, that the slow reps medium forces can NOT make up or balance out the very high force {the very high tensions that the very high forces have put on the muscles, as of the action reaction force thus tensions on the muscles} that the fast reps are putting out, that’s why the fast reps have used more energy and moved the weight 6 times further in my opinion.

Not sure you get what I say there, please say if you don’t, it’s like a person hits you with great force, and it hits you down, but it would take far more lower force hits and more “time” {but in this debate the time is the same} to hit you down with lower force hits. THIS is why you always fail at lifting the weight, or you hit momentary muscular failure faster with the faster reps, as they ARE doing more damage with the higher forces.

I am not saying the physics equations are wrong, it’s just they cannot tell the full story, as all the variables as liker the high force to medium force has not been worked out, that’s why the EMG states more average force used in the faster reps.


Big thank you for staying with me.
Originally Posted by sophiecentaur
1. If you can't tell me the acceleration (i.e. what is the variation of velocity with time during the lift? There are infinite possible combinations that will get the weight from bottom to top of the lift in a given time.) I cannot tell you the force. (Did you not read my F=mA formula?)

Hmm, I thought I told you this on my other post ? Ok, this is where your help will have to come in, as I am not sure how to work this out. Can we call it for now a constant acceleration ? If so, on 1, the weight accelerates from rest to 400mm in 0.4 of a second, then decelerates the last 100mm in .1 of a second

Originally Posted by sophiecentaur
2. Because the weight starts and ends stationary, the Mean additional force must be zero and the mean force will be the weight.. (I think this had been pointed out several times already.)

So as I push up with the force of the weight to move the weight, and then the weight cancels that force out, then you call the mean additional force {that my muscles creating force} must be zero ? If I am right, sort of get that, however, I have used forces, from a 100 to 1 pounds, and that’s all we are concerned about ? Or am I missing something.

My other point is, that I don’t think that when I am using far higher forces, like 100 pounds for the accelerations, that when I am then using slightly less force than 80 pounds for the decelerations, that when the slow rep is roughly using a constant 80 pounds, that the slow reps medium forces can NOT make up or balance out the very high force {the very high tensions that the very high forces have put on the muscles, as of the action reaction force thus tensions on the muscles} that the fast reps are putting out, that’s why the fast reps have used more energy and moved the weight 6 times further in my opinion.

Not sure you get what I say there, please say if you don’t, it’s like a person hits you with great force, and it hits you down, but it would take far more lower force hits and more “time” {but in this debate the time is the same} to hit you down with lower force hits. THIS is why you always fail at lifting the weight, or you hit momentary muscular failure faster with the faster reps, as they ARE doing more damage with the higher forces.

I am not saying the physics equations are wrong, it’s just they cannot tell the full story, as all the variables as liker the high force to medium force has not been worked out, that’s why the EMG states more average force used in the faster reps.
Originally Posted by sophiecentaur
3. What does "total force" mean? Do we add up the forces, measured every second, every tenth of a second, every 100th of a second? It's a nonsense concept as you can only validly add forces that operate at the same time.. Ask the makers of your machine for an answer. There is not a PF answer for you.

It matters not whether you are working in Imperial or Metric - all three questions are either nonsense of indeterminable.

What I mean with total or overall force, is that if you lift say 80% of your 1RM, you can only lift it for a certain amount of times in a time frame at a certain speed. Let’s say you could lift it up and down 10 times at 1 second up and 1 second down, then at 20 seconds you could not lift it again, so you had in your muscles 20 seconds or 10 lifts in you at that rep speed, of force, after that your force was temporary no longer. Yes I know that sounds a bit daft, but that is actually what happens, and if you had lifted the same weight up and down in .5 of a second up and .5 of a second up, you would have most probably failed to lift the weight in 10 to 12 seconds. Meaning you have used up your temporary force up far faster.

So let’s “just” {please this is just an example to get my point over} say for an example you had 1000 forces to lift the weight, in the fast, you used up this force far far far faster, meaning if you both lift the weight for a set time, and do “not” lift until momentary muscular failure, the faster reps “must” be using up more force faster, as you fail faster lifting faster. Example of how the fast are using more force and faster, more energy used, more distance the weight has been moved, faster to muscular failure, the EMG states more muscle activity or muscle force. I know all the above sounds a bit complicated, but there is total since in there.

Thank you again for you time and help, not sure about the acceleration, hope to learn more on that.


Wayne
 
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  • #102
Wayne
You still don't get it, do you?
Whatever you 'feel' in your arms and whatever you think that machine is telling you, my points 1,2 and 3 still apply.

1. You can't say it's accelerating constantly all the time. If it were, then it would still be moving at the top. It isn't because, of course, it stops at the top. And, in practical terms, you have no way of knowing without measuring the velocity at very short intervals over the whole of a lift.

2. For the weight to start at zero velocity and to end at zero velocity then the average force Has to be weight. This may annoy or confuse you and it may not be what you think the machine is telling you but is true beyond any shadow of a doubt. You could ask Sir Isaac Newton himself and he would tell you the same.

3. You actually don't know what you mean when you talk of "total force" because you are after an arm waving description of what it feels like to do a lift. I really don't know why you won't accept (from not just me but others, too) that your idea can't be stated in Physics.

What you could find out (but only by measurement) would be the maximum force, the total work done on the weights (thats N lifts times weight times height) and the Power developed (dividing the total work done by the time for the whole exercise).

I don't understand why that isn't enough.
All the other acres and acres of figures you have written on these pages have been pretty much wasted. I'd bet that no one has actually read more than a few sample lines of it and then given up.

How can you be so sure that your question is reasonable when, in the same breath, you admit to not knowing much real Physics?

I have seen some of the movies on your website and I am really impressed by your dedication to your sport. You are clearly a bit of an expert on the practical aspects of it and your advice on how to do the exercises and how to body build is, no doubt, correct. But, when it comes to the Physics of the situation, you just have to be much more rigorous and 'go along with the rules'. Those rules say that you are on a fruitless quest and have been talking mostly rubbish. Why are you bothering and why can't you just accept what you are being told? Do you just like a friendly chat - is that what it's all about?

That is a DEAD PARROT! :biggrin:
 
  • #103
douglis said:
O.K. I'll try to help you understand once again.

Ok thx.

douglis said:
Let's say in your above example the load is 800N(81.5kg) while your maximum force ability is 1000N.

Right.


douglis said:
For the first 0.4sec you're applying your Fmax

Right.

douglis said:
(although in reality that's biomechanically impossible)

Right.

douglis said:
so the net force is 1000-800=200N.

This is where you sort of lose me. As you saying ? The net force on me and the weight = 200N ? If so I am still with you, but why say the net force on my muscles and the weight ? AND WHY take 800 from 1000 ? As we are only concerned with the weight/force on me, my muscles.

So am I not right in saying what physics states, is the net force on me, my muscles is only the weight = 800N ? But that’s “only” when you are holding the weight of moving it very slow.

Now here’s where it get a little more complicated. As if you agree that there is 800N pushing down and me pushing up with 800N, the moment I try too accelerate it as fast as possible I will be pushing up with a 1000N, but not only that, but the weight of 800N will not only be pushing back down with just the 800N, but as of the acceleration components, the weight will pushing down more than 800N as of the action reaction law ?

So you you weight me and the weight on the scales, it could register ? 400 pounds, but the faster I try to accelerate, the more weight/force is pushing back onto my muscles as the reading on the scales goes up and up the faster I try to accelerate.

douglis said:
So your acceleration for those 0.4sec is a=F/m=200/81.5=2.45m/s^2

Right.

douglis said:
For the last 0.1sec you let the gravity decelerate the load so the net force is -800N

Not sure on you here, are you saying that only gravity does the work and force on the weight for the last 0.1 of a second ? If so I do not agree there, as I have to keep pushing for the weight to keep moving. I decelerate the weight, if the weight was heavier or lighter, or if gravity had more force or less force, I my muscles decelerate the weight, I am in full control, especially on 80% if we were talking of 20%, then the accelerating components will be helping moving the weight after a certain speed/force is applied to the weight, as if I immediately stopped, the weight would keep moving.

douglis said:
So your acceleration for those 0.1sec is a=F/m=-800/81.5=-9.81m/s^2 and obviously it's equal with g.

Sorry you lose me a little there ? Equal with g ? I know what g is, but not sure why you are saying equal with it.

douglis said:
As I proved you above you used positive acceleration equal with 2.45m/s^2 for the 80% and 4 times greater negative acceleration equal with -9.81m/s^2 for the last 20%.
That's why we're telling you the acceleration is offset by the deceleration.The average acceleration is always zero.

Right get what you’re saying here, and have done all along, your sort of saying, and I know this is different, but want you to understand that I understand. You’re saying that when my accelerations are higher than your forces, that your forces make up or balance out when my forces are on the decelerations ? BUT what I am saying, is that it may look that way on paper, but how do you think your 80 medium force, can make up for/to my 100 force ? I am saying to do this; you would need FAR more time using your 80 force for the tension to build up on the muscles.

As “IF” you did make up or balance this force up, thus make up or balance this opposite action reaction tension on the muscles, HOW and WHY do I use “more” overall/total energy ? How/why do I move the weight “more” overall/total distance ? How and why do I fail roughly 50% faster “more” ? How and why does the EMG read out far more muscle activity, force on the faster rep.

Four definite things prove you “CAN’T” be making up the force, see my point ?

Don’t you get, that your measure or force does and can never equally my higher force ! Thus you have to need more time to let your force put more tension on the muscles. A small force applied for a LONGER TIME produce the same momentum change as a large force applied briefly, because it is the product of the force and the time for which it is applied that is important.

douglis said:
In the equation of force F=mg+ma the "ma"
You lost me on ma, I need to know what that is for me to understand you point.

part is always zero so F=mg or else the force is equal with the weight.No Mean additonal force is required.The forces "make up","balance out" or call it whatever you like.

I don't believe it's possible to get a more simple explanation.



douglis said:
This is the last time I bother to even read that particular question.

You "fail" in a weight lifting set when you have no longer enough energy to apply force equal with the weight.

You can NOT just say it’s the energy that fails or runs out, that is non scientific, very biased and unfair.

You have no temporary energy left and NO temporary force left. As we are not in this case taking about energy are we ? So if I cannot lift 400 pounds above my head, you will say I have not enough force, right ? And if I can lift up 200 pounds 30 times you will say in the end you did not have enough force left right ? Well actually I did not have {and I am being scientific, non biased and fair here} force “and” energy left, you can’t have one without the other, you “HAVE” to include force and energy when you say I hit momentary muscular failure faster than you.

I ran out of temporary force because I used up all my temporary energy, or/and I used up all my temporary energy because I used up all my temporary force. BOTH are used, and used up. I STILL have energy and force left, but I need to recuperate to get them both back.

douglis said:
"Failing" faster with a certain kind of lifting means that with this kind of lifting you spend energy at a higher rate...NOT that you use more force.In all cases the average force is equal with the weight.

Ok if you want to think backwards, tell me “why” I use up my energy faster ? Or with this kind of lifting why do you think you spend energy at a higher rate ?

More acceleration/force ? if not what and why ?


douglis said:
It's the fluctuations of force that are more energy demanding.That's the only scientific answer you can get.

But this is what I “have” be saying all along, the high fluctuations of force that are more energy demanding, meaning if they are more demanding as you just said, means your forces can not make up or balance out, right.

Wayne
 
  • #104
sophiecentaur said:
Wayne
You still don't get it, do you?
Whatever you 'feel' in your arms and whatever you think that machine is telling you, my points 1,2 and 3 still apply.

1. You can't say it's accelerating constantly all the time. If it were, then it would still be moving at the top. It isn't because, of course, it stops at the top. And, in practical terms, you have no way of knowing without measuring the velocity at very short intervals over the whole of a lift.
Right.

sophiecentaur said:
2. For the weight to start at zero velocity and to end at zero velocity then the average force Has to be weight. This may annoy or confuse you and it may not be what you think the machine is telling you but is true beyond any shadow of a doubt. You could ask Sir Isaac Newton himself and he would tell you the same.

Ah, but that’s what I am not saying is not true, meaning you’re not understanding what I am trying to say, I am saying the above is right, I always have.

I am saying that my higher acceleration forces, and they are higher and always higher than the slow, as my higher force on the transition from negative to positive could be as high as 140% but my normal higher forces are say a 100 to your 80, thus higher.

My point is, when you push out a 100 force there is a 100 force/tension on the muscles, right ? Now you only push out a 80 force there is a 80 force/tension on the muscles, right ?

You have never put a 100 force/tension on the muscle, right ? So why and how do you think that your 80 force/tension can equal a 100 ? As 80 = 80 not a 100. It would take far far far longer in time for your 80 to make up the force/tension on the muscles/object

I am saying I am doing more damage with my higher forces, and your lower forces can NOT do the same damage in the same time frame, that’s why the below happens;

1,
I use more energy,

2,
I move the weight more distance,

3,
My muscles fail faster in the faster reps, proving they must be doing more damage,

4,
EMG agrees.

5,
I am NOT saying your questions are wrong, I am just stating my higher impulse, my impulse force with respect to time, YOUR SMALL FORCE applied for a long time can produce then same momentum change as MY LARGE FORCE applied briefly, because it is the product of the force and the time for which it is applied that is important.

Please if you do not agree, all I would like is that you do/can understand what I am just trying to say ? I am not at this moment in time concerned who is right or wrong, just that you see my point, as it’s quite frustrating when something argues over you, but they are not actually seeing my point, as they keep repeating what I agree with.

No time for the below its late here.


sophiecentaur said:
3. You actually don't know what you mean when you talk of "total force" because you are after an arm waving description of what it feels like to do a lift. I really don't know why you won't accept (from not just me but others, too) that your idea can't be stated in Physics.

What you could find out (but only by measurement) would be the maximum force, the total work done on the weights (thats N lifts times weight times height) and the Power developed (dividing the total work done by the time for the whole exercise).

I don't understand why that isn't enough.
All the other acres and acres of figures you have written on these pages have been pretty much wasted. I'd bet that no one has actually read more than a few sample lines of it and then given up.

How can you be so sure that your question is reasonable when, in the same breath, you admit to not knowing much real Physics?

I have seen some of the movies on your website and I am really impressed by your dedication to your sport. You are clearly a bit of an expert on the practical aspects of it and your advice on how to do the exercises and how to body build is, no doubt, correct. But, when it comes to the Physics of the situation, you just have to be much more rigorous and 'go along with the rules'. Those rules say that you are on a fruitless quest and have been talking mostly rubbish. Why are you bothering and why can't you just accept what you are being told? Do you just like a friendly chat - is that what it's all about?

That is a DEAD PARROT! :biggrin:

Wayne
 
  • #105
waynexk8 said:
This is where you sort of lose me. As you saying ? The net force on me and the weight = 200N ? If so I am still with you, but why say the net force on my muscles and the weight ? AND WHY take 800 from 1000 ? As we are only concerned with the weight/force on me, my muscles.

I stopped here.It was my mistake to try to make my point with physics equations.It's obvious that you can't follow them.That's not a bad thing but I don't have the time and the patience to explain every single line that I write.

I suggest to leave out physics.We have two push ups studies that examine exactly you're looking for.In physics there's no such thing as "total force" but in biomechanics there's a magnitude called Total Muscle Activation.
Let's discussed them via mail because obviously they're unrelated with physics.


You can NOT just say it’s the energy that fails or runs out, that is non scientific, very biased and unfair.

What makes you think that you're able to judge what's scientific and what's not?
But even common sense tell us that energy runs out and force is applied.Force doesn't run out.It's either applied or not.

You have no temporary energy left and NO temporary force left. As we are not in this case taking about energy are we ? So if I cannot lift 400 pounds above my head, you will say I have not enough force, right ? And if I can lift up 200 pounds 30 times you will say in the end you did not have enough force left right ? Well actually I did not have {and I am being scientific, non biased and fair here} force “and” energy left, you can’t have one without the other, you “HAVE” to include force and energy when you say I hit momentary muscular failure faster than you.

I ran out of temporary force because I used up all my temporary energy, or/and I used up all my temporary energy because I used up all my temporary force. BOTH are used, and used up. I STILL have energy and force left, but I need to recuperate to get them both back.

You can't lift 400 pounds above your head because you don't have the ability to apply that force.
When you "fail" after you have lifted 200 pounds 30 times,even though you have the ability to apply that force,you have no longer the required energy to apply that force.You run out of energy.You didn't run out of force.

Ok if you want to think backwards, tell me “why” I use up my energy faster ? Or with this kind of lifting why do you think you spend energy at a higher rate ?

More acceleration/force ? if not what and why ?

Not more acceleration...neither more force.The mean force is the weight which means "the forces balance out...make out" or whatever.Accept that fact.
The generation of force(fluctuations are generation/degeneration cycles) is more energy demanding than the maintenance of force(as if holding the weight).There're biology studies that prove that.
That's a perfectly scientific answer.
 
  • #106
waynexk8 said:
Please if you do not agree, all I would like is that you do/can understand what I am just trying to say ? I am not at this moment in time concerned who is right or wrong, just that you see my point, as it’s quite frustrating when something argues over you, but they are not actually seeing my point, as they keep repeating what I agree with.

No time for the below its late here.




Wayne

The point you are trying to make is not to do with Physics. It's to do with what you feel in your muscles and how you are trying to fit it to some kind of 'Mechanical Science', that you've invented. You have absolutely no idea of what your muscles are doing at the time they're doing it. There is a delay, corresponding to a large fraction of the time of one lift, in what you do and your consciousness of what you did. That's no basis for an experiment because the evidence is fundamentally flawed.

You must have spent hours and hours on this and it really isn't a good way to learn anything about a subject.
This is not uncommon. Many people write posts about their pet approach to some topic and insist on having it explained in their terms only. It so often fails because they are not prepared to start from scratch and get the subject properly sorted out. Douglis has very patiently, point by point, taken you through your problem and you just reply with remarks like:
"Sorry you lose me a little there ? Equal with g ? I know what g is, but not sure why you are saying equal with it."
His conclusion would be absolutely blindingly obvious to you if you had taken the trouble of approaching this from the beginning instead of doggedly insisting that your view is the right one. Science doesn't necessarily 'make sense' when you try to reconcile it with ideas which, themselves, don't make sense.
You could have completed a whole GCSE Physics Course in the time you have wasted trying to justify your misplaced views on these threads. If you had, then you would have no trouble understanding this really elementary bit of Classical Science. You would also see how simple Physics can't help you with this 'undefined' question that you keep trying to ask.

As I hinted before, I really question your motives here. I suspect you are just attention seeking.
I'll bet you haven't read all the words in this post, too.
 
  • #107
sophiecentaur said:
3. You actually don't know what you mean when you talk of "total force" because you are after an arm waving description of what it feels like to do a lift. I really don't know why you won't accept (from not just me but others, too) that your idea can't be stated in Physics.

Ok I will be able to except that the total or overall force will not be able to be equated by physics, I just find it odd, as this the below F = Ma seems so easy, but then when I ask for the force for 80 pounds moving 20 inch in .5 or a second, and 80 pounds moving 3.3 inch in .5 of a second, it can’t be done ?

In total or overall force, I mean the muscles only have a temporary limited amount of force before its used up, so let’s say I can lift 200 pounds 10 x at 1/1 = 20 seconds, then I could not lift it a full rep again, but maybe half a rep, but let’s forget about the half a rep, could not we work out how much force I have, or much I have used ?

F = Ma.
200kg and an Acceleration of 20m/s or 10m/s then we can work out the Force pushing the car by multiplying the weight by the Acceleration like this,

Fast rep,
200 x 20 = 4000N.

Slow rep,
200 x 10 = 2000N

Yes I know for my reps there will be a deceleration, but don’t see how the above 2000N can make up or balance out the 4000N ?

PLEASE, could explain this too me. So this means that I would have to use a force of 4000N to be able to move the 200kg 20m in 1 second, so that means I would have to apply the 4000N for 1 second only for it to move 20m in 1 second ? And what ?


sophiecentaur said:
What you could find out (but only by measurement) would be the maximum force, the total work done on the weights (thats N lifts times weight times height) and the Power developed (dividing the total work done by the time for the whole exercise).
I don't understand why that isn't enough.

Ok Maximum force would be ok for a start, how would you do that please ? And total work done on the weights.

Believe it or not I can work the power out quite easy, that’s one of the first things that got me back interested in physics. I know this is like 1 and 1 too you, but hope I am doing it right here ?

Calculate how much power I would be used on both rep speeds. Distance weight moved 1.85 M.

Determine the force we will need to figure out what the weight of the barbell is (W = mg = 91 kg x 9.81 m/s = 892 kg.m/s or 892 N). Now, if work is equal to Force x distance then, U = 892 N x 1.85 m = 1650 Nm.

We can calculate that lifting a 200 lb barbell overhead a distance of 1.85 m required 1650 J of work.

Let us only add up the positive part of the lift.

The concept of power however, takes time into consideration. If for example, it took .5 seconds to complete the lift, then the power generated is 1650 J divided .5 s = 3300 J/s.

If it took 2 seconds to complete the lift, then the power generated is 1650 J divided 2 s = 825 J/s.

Slow set,
825 x 6 reps = 4950Joules.

Fast set,
3300 x 25 reps = 82500Joules



sophiecentaur said:
All the other acres and acres of figures you have written on these pages have been pretty much wasted. I'd bet that no one has actually read more than a few sample lines of it and then given up.

How can you be so sure that your question is reasonable when, in the same breath, you admit to not knowing much real Physics?

sophiecentaur said:
I have seen some of the movies on your website and I am really impressed by your dedication to your sport. You are clearly a bit of an expert on the practical aspects of it and your advice on how to do the exercises and how to body build is, no doubt, correct.

Big thank you for that as at first I thought you was trying to make out I was a crank, as imagine you going to a place where no one knows you, and they say you know knowing of physics and don’t know what you’re talking about. But I have been training for nearly 40 years, and the Wrought Iron is my business, thanks again for saying that, as was getting a bit up tight.

sophiecentaur said:
But, when it comes to the Physics of the situation, you just have to be much more rigorous and 'go along with the rules'. Those rules say that you are on a fruitless quest and have been talking mostly rubbish. Why are you bothering and why can't you just accept what you are being told? Do you just like a friendly chat - is that what it's all about?

That is a DEAD PARROT! :biggrin:

Ok yes I will have to go along with the rules, but I know I go on about it, but the EMG ? Or do you know what a force plate is ? I imagine so, what if I bought one, or got someone to do some tests for me, and just say, and please just say, and I am not saying you are, but let’s just say that like the EMG the force plate readings come back stating the fast do have a higher average force reading, what would you do, would you be very interested, and very interested to find out not how the physics equations were wrong, as they are not, but would you be very interested to find out what variables you left out ?

This debate is HUGE on the internet. Over several different forums, by 1000s of different people, and lots or separate debates, and it’s been going on for well over ten years.

Not that well, back to answer the rest tomorrow.

Wayne
 
  • #108
The basic rules of all this are so simply stated that they don't justify all this 'chat'. All the blather is just clouding the issue.
I shall not bother to repeat, yet again, the very few relationships and definitions.
All I can say is that, if you cannot state your question in just a few words with no numbers and just the right terms, used correctly, there isn't an answer. No one wants to read another list of numbers and jargon terms. We have established that it doesn't get us anywhere.
 
  • #110
waynexk8 said:
This is what I want to do, but not on a jump, but 6 reps at .5/.5 = 6 seconds and 1 rep at 3/3 = 6 seconds. And find the average force used, and the peak, but the total or overall force used.
Wayne

1)The average force is the weight.
2)The peak force requires more data.If you use an accelerometer you can find the peak acceleration and then the peak force.
3)Total or overall force doesn't exist in physics.What you're looking for is the integrated EMG or maybe you can describe it with gravity's impulse which is the same in both cases of your example(weight X 6 seconds).
 
  • #111
He has been told this many times but just does not choose to take it on board. Until he does, we are all wasting our time.
 
  • #112
Just composing my next post.

In the meantime ou might enjoy the below from some recent communications I had from about the best known muscle physiologists, Roger M. Enoka, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Integrative Physiology University of Colorado And one of his colleagues Per Aagaard Professor, PhD Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics University of Southern Denmark.


Rogers Neuromechanics of Human Movement is out on [Audiobook] (CD-ROM)

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The number of muscle fibers activated to lift a weight depends on two factors:

(1) the amount of weight; and (2) the speed of the lift. Although more muscle fibers are activated during fast lifts, they are each generating MORE force. We know this because the rate at which the muscle fibers are activated by the nervous system increases with contraction speed.

Although your question seems relatively straight forward, it is not. Despite the popularization of the terms slow and fast muscle fibers, the characteristics of muscle fibers are not so black and white. Human muscle fibers are often classified as types I, IIa, and IIx.

This distinction is NOT based on contraction speed (slow or fast) but is based on the activity of an enzyme that is related to contraction speed. When the enzyme activity is assessed with an histochemical stain, the fiber types appear quite distinct: black, grey, and white.

When the enzyme activity is quantified, however, there is a continuous distribution of enzyme activity across the population. Furthermore, muscle fiber size (a measure of force capacity) varies continuously across the population and in some cases type I ("slow") fibers are actually the biggest.

I do not know how much work is performed by the different fiber types in the two scenarios you describe. I don't think this has been measured. The closest muscle physiologists have come to answering your question is to measure the size of muscle fibers in individuals who perform different types of training.

The most common finding is that it is the intermediate fiber type, the fast muscle fiber (type IIa) that experiences the biggest increase in size (strength) in individuals who perform conventional weight lifting (heavy loads,) and body building (lighter loads, fast/explosive reps) training. Neither type of training appears to have a significant effect on the size of types I and IIx fibers.

Cheers.

Per Aagaard Professor, PhD
Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics
University of Southern Denmark

When a given load is lifted very fast, the acceleration component means that the forces exerted on the load (and thereby by the muscles) by far exceeds the nominal weight of the load.

For instance, a 120 kg squat can easily produce peak vertical ground reaction forces (beyond the body mass of the lifter) of 160-220 kg's when executed in a very fast manner! Same goes for all other resisted movements with unrestricted acceleration (i.e. isokinetic dynamometers (and in part also hydraulic loading devices) do not have this effect).

This means that higher forces will be exerted by MORE muscles fiber when a given load is moved at maximal high acceleration and speed - i.e. contractile stress (F/CSA) will be greater for the activated muscle fibers than when the load is lifted slowly...
best wishes
Per

The all-or-nothing principle only refers to the discharge of action potential by a motor neuron; either it discharges an action potential or it does not. It is not correct to apply this principle to the force generated by a muscle fiber, which depends on the action potential-mediated level of calcium within the fiber.

Each muscle fiber action potential releases a certain amount of calcium from the storage site (sarcoplasmic reticulum) that enables the contractile proteins to interact and produce force. The amount of calcium released by a single action potential is less than that required to produce maximal muscle fiber force. Consequently, the force produced by a muscle fiber depends on action potential rate.

Cheers.

Roger M. Enoka, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Integrative Physiology
University of Colorado


Roger M. Enoka, Ph.D. Wrote;
One important point to emphasize in these types of discussions is the concept of slow and fast twitch muscle fibers. Unfortunately, this terminology is misleading because there are not two (or three) types of muscle fibers; rather, there is a continuous distribution in every muscle from the fibers with slow contractile kinetics through to those with fast kinetics.

Because there are not distinct types of muscle fibers, it is not possible to design an exercise program that stresses either "fiber type".

A more appropriate functional distinction between muscle fibers is the force at which the motor units are activated during a muscle contraction, which is known as recruitment threshold.

Motor units with low recruitment threshold can be either slow or fast twitch, whereas motor units with high recruitment thresholds are all fast twitch. But, recruitment thresholds decrease with contraction speed so that all motor units in a muscle are activated when rapid contractions are performed with loads 40% of maximum.

The force that a muscle must exert to move a load depends on two factors: the mass of the load and the amount of acceleration imparted to the load. The number of muscle fibers recruited during the lift increases with the speed the lift.

The rate at which any motor unit, low or high threshold, can discharge action potentials is not maximal during slow contractions. As contraction speed increases, so does discharge rate for all motor units.

Hi Roger,
The part on recruitment threshold, is a tricky one to get your head around. I think it means the faster you lift, the muscle fibers lowers their activation recruitment force, so that more can be recruited faster, and are thus recruited faster, as more are needed faster.

Am I right or half right or wrong ?

Hi Wayne,

You were right.

Cheers.


Wayne
 
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Fascinating stuff but what has it to do with the quasi Physics that you want to apply to the problem, Wayne?
Where does he mention average or total force? This guy knows what he's talking about and you should pay attention to what he says. He talks of muscle fibre activity and energy - which is just what I should have expected - but none of your old rubbish.
 
  • #114
douglis said:
1)The average force is the weight.

Get back to that one.

douglis said:
2)The peak force requires more data.If you use an accelerometer you can find the peak acceleration and then the peak force.

We all agree that the peak will/must be higher in the faster reps.

douglis said:
3)Total or overall force doesn't exist in physics.

I am sure it must ? As they work the average ground reaction force of exercises out on a force plate ?

What you're looking for is the integrated EMG or maybe you can describe it with gravity's impulse which is the same in both cases of your example(weight X 6 seconds).

Why do you seem to think you are such an expert on EMG now ? As you did not know anything before, and why do you keep say my EMG is RMS ?

D. you said my EMG showed only the peak forces, I said it measured the total or overall muscle activity/ force output. I showed you this before but you did not comment, could you please, I can video the machine and prove its NOT the peak force, but the average. Or you should be able to work it out here.

Take a look at the slow rep video, you will notice the peak force = ? Was it a 190 something ? BUT the average was a 140 !

http://www.youtube.com/user/wayneroc...36/B8gtpp8ozvU

What do you say to that my friend D. ?

Wayne
 
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  • #115
Wayne. As you do not know how that EMG machine works, you cannot insist about what it tells you.
If you insist "it must" it's up to you to prove it. Our physics is quite self consistent at this level and needs no further justification. It's innocent until YOU prove it guilty.
 
  • #116
sophiecentaur said:
Wayne. As you do not know how that EMG machine works, you cannot insist about what it tells you.
If you insist "it must" it's up to you to prove it. Our physics is quite self consistent at this level and needs no further justification. It's innocent until YOU prove it guilty.

Fascinating stuff but what has it to do with the quasi Physics that you want to apply to the problem, Wayne?
Where does he mention average or total force? This guy knows what he's talking about and you should pay attention to what he says. He talks of muscle fibre activity and energy - which is just what I should have expected - but none of your old rubbish.


sophiecentaur, ok it’s up to me to provide physics is not wrong, but I think it’s not adding in all the variables. As I think the medium forces of the slow, cannot make up or balance out the higher forces of the faster when they are on the decelerations. And in my opinion this is what the machies adds in, the ground reaction higher peck force.

But for the moment could you please clear up and explain what you think RMS, {Root mean square}
means please after looking at these two very short videos.

Slow test.
http://www.youtube.com/user/waynerock999?feature=guide#p/u/36/B8gtpp8ozvU

Fast test.
http://www.youtube.com/user/waynerock999?feature=guide#p/u/37/pd0ZAm_2ioY

As if you look at the low rest reading you can see {not saying this is at all the exact lowest reading} on the slow, its 70, and highest 196, average = 133, machines states 140. As if you look at the low rest reading on the fast, its 155, and highest 226, average = 190, machines states 196. So it can not be the pack muscle activity, it’s the average muscle activity, force output.

By the way this weight was far too light.

1, Fast 409, Slow 349,
2, Fast 437, Slow 346,
3, Fast 0.1, Slow 0.3,
4, Fast 0.6, Slow 0.7,
5, Fast 1104, Slow 1114,
6, Fast 146.0, Slow 193.4,
7, Fast 175.0, Slow 173.0,


1/ WRK This is the work average for the session measured in [?V]
AVG microvolts. The average readings will vary from one patient to
another.

2/ RST This is the rest average for the session measured in ?V - Below
AVG 4 ?V a muscle is beginning to rest.

3/ AVG This is the average onset of muscle contraction measured in
ONST seconds, readings below 1 second can be considered normal.

4/ AVG This is the average muscle release measured in seconds,
RLSE readings below 1 second can be considered normal.

5/ W/R This is the average peak value measured in ?V - The value will
PEAK vary from one patient to another.

6/ WRK This is the average muscle deviation when contracting the
AVDV muscle. Readings of below 20% of WRKAVG can be
considered adequate, below 12% can be considered good.

7/ RST This is the average muscle deviation when the muscle is at rest.
AVDV Below 4 ?V a muscle is beginning to rest.

Wayne
 
  • #117
sophiecentaur said:
The point you are trying to make is not to do with Physics. It's to do with what you feel in your muscles and how you are trying to fit it to some kind of 'Mechanical Science', that you've invented.

Here is another way of seeing why in my opinion the faster peak force made in the accelerations of the faster reps can not be made up by the mediam forces of slower reps when the faster reps are on the lower forces in their deccelations. As in my opinion the higher peak forces of the faster reps, will do more damage

Could I just for thins post, post some explanations/scenarios of what I mean in laymans terms when I mean that the fast reps will do more damage, thus use more overall or total force.

You drive {ONE SLOW REP = 6 MINUTES} a 80 pound car over a bridge that has a length of 6 miles and 101 pound breaking force {the car is the force created by the muscles, and the bridge in the muscles, and the breaking force in the breaking force, or the force that would tear the muscles, a tear means the muscles have taken more than they can stand, and are totally damaged} You drive your car over in 6 minutes and all is fine with the bridge {muscles} structurally.

I on the other hand, I drive {SIX SLOW REPS = 6 MINUTES} my 6 cars at a 100 pound each over the 6 mile bridge one at a time at 1 minute each, the first car generates a force very close to the breaking force, so do the second and third cars, but the time the fourth, fifth and sixth cars have gone over the bridge, they will most probably caused enough damage that the bridge breaks, why ? Because each was generating MORE force.

Say a Bird flapped his wings once very slowly for 30 minutes, he would not fly, flapped his wing very fast for 30 seconds, he would be flying very high and far. Thus is that not more total or overall force used ? As the Bird has moved his bodyweight far far far further then the slow flapping Bird, thus more force, more acceleration, more velocity, more energy, more disstyance.

My point, the peak force of the faster reps as of the accelerations, are far far far higher than those of the slow reps medium forces, thus in the peak forces small time frame but done 6 times as 6 reps, will put more tension on the muscles, causing them to tear.

Just imagine an imaginary rubber band going across your room in front of you. You roll a light weight over it in 6 seconds, the rubber band bend/dip slightly, as its having a constant light force on it, now roll along it a heaver weight, but each weight is rolled over 6 times in the same time frame as the lighter weight was rolled over once. On each of the fast rolling weight, you see a far far far larger bend/dip. That’s because there is more overall/total force on the rubber band, thus more tension, damage is being done.

If I arm wrestled you, and you put 80 pounds of force and I put 100 pounds of force, I would beat you the 6 times I went again you, and the time frame would be the same. Even if I decelerated for the last 30% then put the 100 pounds of force on again, I would still beat you on my second pull/push of force.


Is not there a way to work out my higher impulse impact forces ?
 
  • #118
waynexk8 said:
Why do you seem to think you are such an expert on EMG now ? As you did not know anything before, and why do you keep say my EMG is RMS ?

Well...you don't have to be an expert.It's not quantum mechanics.Every manual states that rectifies the raw EMG with the RMS method.
We all learned at school that the RMS is the 70% of the positive peak value.

D. you said my EMG showed only the peak forces, I said it measured the total or overall muscle activity/ force output. I showed you this before but you did not comment, could you please, I can video the machine and prove its NOT the peak force, but the average. Or you should be able to work it out here.

Take a look at the slow rep video, you will notice the peak force = ? Was it a 190 something ? BUT the average was a 140 !

http://www.youtube.com/user/wayneroc...36/B8gtpp8ozvU

What do you say to that my friend D. ?

Wayne

No...you didn't meausure any "total or overall muscle activity/ force output".You also did NOT measure the peak.You meusured the RMS(70% of the positive peak).
The Total Muscle Activation is meusured by the integrated EMG which is the area below the EMG curve.

You drive {ONE SLOW REP = 6 MINUTES} a 80 pound car over a bridge blah...blah...blah

All these "explanations/scenarios"(:biggrin:) are the effect of the peak force.
 
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  • #119
Acres of blather, yet again, Wayne. I, and everyone else, understand what RMS means; it is very well defined. What your machine does in order to produce the "RMS" figures it displays is a complete mystery to both you and me. We can draw no conclusions.
Btw, douglis, RMS is only your value of 0.7ish in the case of sinusoidal situations. RMS value depends totally on the time profile and, to measure it accurately, you need a good number of samples over the cycle. A weight lifting cycle will be far from sinusoidal.
 
  • #120
Sorry I have been very busy.

One thing, could we possibly answer my original question, before I come back on the rest, as I am not sure if I am getting my point over, As I have and always been on about the extra force, the ground, or in our case the more muscles reaction force, thus more tension on the muscles, that is more from the peak acceleration force from the transition from negative to positive, the MMMT {Momentary Maximum Muscles Tensions}. HOPE this question. Newton’s Third Law, is more of a physics equation you can easy work out and get your teeth into.

I think/hope we will all agree, in that if you lift a weight up, then immediately lower, then in a completely different lift, you lower, then immediately lift the weight, there will be more force needed on the second lift, as the moment I lifted the first 80 pounds, there would be just 80 pounds to lift, however, if 80 pounds is traveling down 20 inch in .5 of a second, the acceleration components will appear to make the 80 pounds, far far far heaver that it actually is. Could we please try and work out how much more heavy the weight would be, or register on a scales if you let it drop, and then the extra force that is needed on the second lift ? Say in % ways.

A,
You lift 80 pounds up, from a still start, to 20 inch in .5 of a second; the weight is moving at 40 inch per second, and you then immediately lower the weight back down in .5 of a second.

B.
You lower 80 pounds down 20 inches; you immediately lift the weight back up 20 inch.

Thank you all for your time and help.

Wayne
 
  • #121
Could you please read page 16, c.

http://homepage.mac.com/wis/Personal/lectures/biomechanics/BiomechanicsLectures.pdf

Wayne
 
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  • #122
sophiecentaur said:
Wayne. As you do not know how that EMG machine works, you cannot insist about what it tells you.
If you insist "it must" it's up to you to prove it. Our physics is quite self consistent at this level and needs no further justification. It's innocent until YOU prove it guilty.

sophiecentaur said:
Wayne. As you do not know how that EMG machine works, you cannot insist about what it tells you.
If you insist "it must" it's up to you to prove it. Our physics is quite self consistent at this level and needs no further justification. It's innocent until YOU prove it guilty.

However I have proved the physics equations are not right, as they have not added all the variables in, if they had, then why/how do you think that {and there are many studies on this} if you fail, being you hit temporary muscular failure roughly 50% faster when doing the faster reps, that the slower reps use the same total or overall force ? Also you have not given me any equations.

As they cannot, as the faster reps have used up this total overall force faster. Let me prove this in more detail.

Clone a lifts slow, he lifts 80 pounds up and down at 3/3 for 60 seconds and let’s say at exactly 60 seconds he hit momentary muscular failure, meaning he cannot lift the weight again.

Clone b lifts fast he lifts 80 pounds up and down for 30 seconds and let’s say at exactly 30 seconds he hit momentary muscular failure, meaning he cannot lift the weight again.

You and D are saying at both 60 seconds and 30 seconds both clones have used the same temporary total or overall force, that is right is it not ?

1,
If both held the weight half way up, they would both use up all their temporary total or overall at the exact same time. So on my faster reps, when the fast hits momentary muscular failure 50% this means he has used up his temporary total or overall force up faster, right ? Actually he’s used up his temporary total or overall force and energy faster, as you cannot have or use one up without the other.

2,
A,
The force at work on a barbell with a weight of 200kg and an Acceleration of 2m/s 200 x 2 = 400N = 400N at every instant in time ?
B,
The force at work on a barbell with a weight of 200kg and no acceleration, the weight is moving at .2m/s 200 x .2 = 40N at every instant in time ?


3,
As you both seem to say that when we both hit momentary muscular failure, whether I am lifting the weight for 30 seconds or 60 seconds, you say I am using the same temporary total or overall force? [/b]So are you also saying, that if I hold the weight half way up for 30 seconds and then 60 seconds, that I am still then using the same temporary total or overall force ?[/b] But if we both use the exact same temporary total or overall force when we both hit temporary muscular failure, what would happen if I {as I have more time then you, as I fail roughly 50% faster} started lifting a lighter weight, then stopped when you hit temporary muscular failure ?

4,
Why do I use more energy the exact same time I use more acceleration, and the exact same time I use more acceleration, I “have” to use more force, but your saying this is not connected. Why is it that you only use the same energy, when you have traveled the same distance as me ? As in 6 seconds I move the weight 6 times further.

5,
Are you saying it takes the same temporary total or overall force to move a weight at a constant speed, and to accelerate it as fast as possible.

6,
How/why does the EMG state more muscle activity in the faster reps ?

Wayne
 
  • #123
sophiecentaur said:
Acres of blather, yet again, Wayne.

I have to explain what happens someway. And when/now I do, I have no reply ?

sophiecentaur said:
I, and everyone else, understand what RMS means; it is very well defined.

Sorry, I do not know what RMS means, please could you say ?I think it’s a measure of the of a varying quantities that are positive and negative like in the accelerations and decelerations in the EMG ? Is this about right please ? Ignoring if the EMG is right or wrong ?D. you said the RMS did not measure positive and negatives, but its actually meant for measuring this


sophiecentaur said:
What your machine does in order to produce the "RMS" figures it displays is a complete mystery to both you and me. We can draw no conclusions.

I just think it’s that the peak highs it measures, do not and cannot be made up by the slows force when the fast is on the decelerations. It’s like in how I explained how a bridge will break under the fast but not the slow.

sophiecentaur said:
Btw, douglis, RMS is only your value of 0.7ish in the case of sinusoidal situations. RMS value depends totally on the time profile and, to measure it accurately, you need a good number of samples over the cycle. A weight lifting cycle will be far from sinusoidal.

The machines reads as many samples as I put it to, and in any time frame, and “all” the times I have done the tests, with light of high loads it always reads higher for the faster reps, all samples and times on both fast and slow tests are done by the machine, and are the exact same. Not sure what you mean by this here please ? RMS is only your value of 0.7ish in the case of sinusoidal situations.

Thank you for your time and help again.

Wayne
 
  • #124
douglis said:
Well...you don't have to be an expert.It's not quantum mechanics.Every manual states that rectifies the raw EMG with the RMS method.
We all learned at school that the RMS is the 70% of the positive peak value.

Show me that anywhere on the net ? WHY would an EMG read out on 70% of the peak ? it’s a measure of the of a varying quantities that are positive and negative like in the accelerations and decelerations in the EMG ? Is this about right please ? Ignoring if the EMG is right or wrong ?D. you said the RMS did not measure positive and negatives, but its actually meant for measuring this


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square

It’s the average of the positive and negative muscle activity, forces.

http://www.analytictech.com/mb313/rootmean.htm


douglis said:
No...you didn't meausure any "total or overall muscle activity/ force output".You also did NOT measure the peak.You meusured the RMS(70% of the positive peak).
The Total Muscle Activation is meusured by the integrated EMG which is the area below the EMG curve.

Read over the above and the internet to see what RMS means.

douglis said:
All these "explanations/scenarios"(:biggrin:) are the effect of the peak force.

Yes that’s what I have been saying all along, the peak forces of the accelerations do more damage, and your lower forces on the slow, DO NOT and CAN NOT do as much damage in the same time frame CAN THEY ? That is a question, and that means that as they can’t do as much damage, means they cannot balance out or make up the force, right ?

Wayne
 
  • #125
Please this is a pure physics question, could we get an answer please.

waynexk8 said:
Sorry I have been very busy.

One thing, could we possibly answer my original question, before I come back on the rest, as I am not sure if I am getting my point over, As I have and always been on about the extra force, the ground, or in our case the more muscles reaction force, thus more tension on the muscles, that is more from the peak acceleration force from the transition from negative to positive, the MMMT {Momentary Maximum Muscles Tensions}. HOPE this question. Newton’s Third Law, is more of a physics equation you can easy work out and get your teeth into.

I think/hope we will all agree, in that if you lift a weight up, then immediately lower, then in a completely different lift, you lower, then immediately lift the weight, there will be more force needed on the second lift, as the moment I lifted the first 80 pounds, there would be just 80 pounds to lift, however, if 80 pounds is traveling down 20 inch in .5 of a second, the acceleration components will appear to make the 80 pounds, far far far heaver that it actually is. Could we please try and work out how much more heavy the weight would be, or register on a scales if you let it drop, and then the extra force that is needed on the second lift ? Say in % ways.

A,
You lift 80 pounds up, from a still start, to 20 inch in .5 of a second; the weight is moving at 40 inch per second, and you then immediately lower the weight back down in .5 of a second.

B.
You lower 80 pounds down 20 inches; you immediately lift the weight back up 20 inch.

Thank you all for your time and help.

Wayne

Wayne
 
  • #126
Wayne.
You produce too much writing for anyone to be able to read.
You claim to have "proved" that Physics is wrong. Really??

YOUR Physics may be wrong but you do not explain what yor Physics actually is.

My (the Physics that everyone else recognises) says that the "average" (=mean?) force is equal to the weight. My physics does not have a "temporary" force, it has a strict definition for RMS and only uses the term "total force" to describe the sum of forces applied at one instant of time.
The above applies to PF as a whole. If you want a PF discussion then I suggest you use PF terms and not use your own terms, which have no meaning.
You claim you are not being arrogant but what other word is there for it?
 
  • #127
waynexk8 said:
Show me that anywhere on the net ? WHY would an EMG read out on 70% of the peak ? it’s a measure of the of a varying quantities that are positive and negative like in the accelerations and decelerations in the EMG ? Is this about right please ? Ignoring if the EMG is right or wrong ?D. you said the RMS did not measure positive and negatives, but its actually meant for measuring this


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square

It’s the average of the positive and negative muscle activity, forces.

http://www.analytictech.com/mb313/rootmean.htm

Read over the above and the internet to see what RMS means.


Wayne

In your second link you can see the most simple explanation of what the RMS means.

Check the below numbers:
-2, 5, -8, 9, -4

Their average is 0 but their RMS is 6.16.
The RMS is NOT the average.It's the quadratic mean.You probably don't have a clue what that means so you have to trust the link and me.
 
  • #128
Waiting for an E-mail back from roger bartlett.

Introduction to Sports Biomechanics: Analysing Human Movement Patterns.

Wayne
 
  • #129
And you seriously think that his reply will bring in a whole "new" lot of Physics into the topic?
The amount of Physics needed to answer your original question is minimal because it can only answer a question that is actually asked 'with Physics'. Whilst you ask for average forces that are not weight and total force over time no one can give you an answer because the questions lie outside the grammar and vocabulary of Physics.
 
  • #130
sophiecentaur said:
And you seriously think that his reply will bring in a whole "new" lot of Physics into the topic?
The amount of Physics needed to answer your original question is minimal because it can only answer a question that is actually asked 'with Physics'. Whilst you ask for average forces that are not weight and total force over time no one can give you an answer because the questions lie outside the grammar and vocabulary of Physics.

sophiecentaur said:
And you seriously think that his reply will bring in a whole "new" lot of Physics into the topic?
The amount of Physics needed to answer your original question is minimal because it can only answer a question that is actually asked 'with Physics'. Whilst you ask for average forces that are not weight and total force over time no one can give you an answer because the questions lie outside the grammar and vocabulary of Physics.

So are you saying that what you and D. said, in that the forces needed to moved a weight up 1m and down 1m 6 times = 12m in 6 seconds, and that the forces needed to moved a weight up 1m and down 1m 1 time = 2m in 6 seconds, are not the same, because it can’t be worked out ? But what about the below.

What if we changed it to Tension, that’s the tension on the muscles that the force creates, as that is the main.

Sophiecentaur is the below right please ? I did not do it.

Here's a very simplified analysis of what's going on, but it will work to explain the concept without the use of calculus. Let's assume we're comparing 2 sets using the same weight, but different rep speeds. set 1 uses 0.5/0.5 and set 2 uses 2/4. For simplicity's sake we'll assume the weight accelerates 100% of the way up and down for both sets.

Known: Mass(m) =100kg (220lbs) Acceleration(a)=?? Distance(d)=1m

First let's solve for the acceleration required to move the weight 1m in the time frames of the sets.

Calculate a, to travel 1m in 0.5s (Raising and Lowering of set 1):
d=1/2at^2
1m=1/2*a*(0.5s)^2
a=2(1m)/(.25s^2)
a=8 m/s^2

Calculate a, to travel 1m in 2s (Raising set 2):
d=1/2at^2
1m=1/2*a*(2s)^2
a=2(1m)/(4s^2)
a=0.5 m/s^2

Calculate a, to travel 1m in 4s (Lowering set 2):
d=1/2at^2
1m=1/2*a*(4s)^2
a=2(1m)/(16s^2)
a=.125 m/s^2


Now let’s solve for the forces required to accelerate the weight

Calculate the force required to raise 100kg, 1m, in 0.5s:
Sum of forces=ma
F1-mg=ma
F1-(100kg)(9.81m/s^2)=(100kg)(8m/s^2)
F1=(981+800) kg m/s^2
F1=1781 kg m/s^2 required to raise the weight 1m in 0.5s

Now compare it to the force required to raise 100kg, 1m, in 2s
Sum of forces=ma
F2-mg=ma
F2-(100kg)(9.81m/s^2)=(100kg)(0.5m/s^2)
F2=(981+50) kg m/s^2
F2=1031 kg m/s^2 required to raise the weight 1m in 2s.




So does it mean that the forces needed to raise a weight 1m in 2 seconds = 1031 and to raise the weight in .5 of a second = 1781 ?

Wayne
 
  • #131
waynexk8 said:
So are you saying that what you and D. said, in that the forces needed to moved a weight up 1m and down 1m 6 times = 12m in 6 seconds, and that the forces needed to moved a weight up 1m and down 1m 1 time = 2m in 6 seconds, are not the same, because it can’t be worked out ? But what about the below.

The forces "can be worked out" only if you know what kind of forces you're looking for.
In physics there're two values of forces.The average and the momentary value at each specific instant of time.The first is the weight in both cases of your example and for the second we need more data.

Here's a very simplified analysis of what's going on, but it will work to explain the concept without the use of calculus. Let's assume we're comparing 2 sets using the same weight, but different rep speeds. set 1 uses 0.5/0.5 and set 2 uses 2/4. For simplicity's sake we'll assume the weight accelerates 100% of the way up and down for both sets.

Wayne

The assumption is wrong hence the calculations are wrong too.You start and end at rest so you don't accelerate for 100%.Every acceleration is accompanied by a deceleration of equal magnitude.The average acceleration is zero.
 
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douglis said:
The forces "can be worked out" only if you know what kind of forces you're looking for.
In physics there're two values of forces.The average and the momentary value at each specific instant of time.The first is the weight in both cases of your example and for the second we need more data.


Sophiecentaur seemed to say what I ask can’t be worked out; this is why I asked the above.


There must be an overall or total force over time ? Not just average and momentary value at each specific instant of time ? This is where the EMG or/and force plate comes in, as I think it seems impossible to work out other wise. How in more data, thought I gave you all that, why don’t you put this in for both lifts ?

Why do you honestly think, or are you just maybe say, this as we have debated for so long, {by the way, someone put me onto someone who works with EMG, am showing him mine} but why do you think that your lower forces can make up or balance out when mine are on the decelerations ?

Let me put it very simple, when I or you press up with a high or low force, there is an opposite reaction on the muscles, right ? This we call tension. So my press puts a 100 tension on the muscles for say 60% your forces never put a 100 forces on the muscles. My force on the transition, could put as high as 140 force thus tension on the muscles, your never puts a 140 tension on the muscles, so has not my forces made more of a dent in the muscles, or a tear ? Yes they have, have they not, so what gets me, is how you think that your lower forces done over the same time frame can put/do this same dent or tear in the muscles ? With your lower forces ? They CANT made the same DEPTH of dent tear can they ?

Just go back and see what I said on this thread on my bridge theory, and the others.

Then PLEASE say is and WHY you do or don’t agree, but please JUST say that you do see the point I am trying to make, if you agree or not, can you two see the point I am trying to make, then please say why you think it’s wrong, then think of why I hit failure faster, as it must be these higher peak forces, and the very high peak force from the transition from negative to positive, the MMMT. {Momentary Muscular Maximum Tensions}


douglis said:
The assumption is wrong hence the calculations are wrong too.You start and end at rest so you don't accelerate for 100%.Every acceleration is accompanied by a deceleration of equal magnitude.The average acceleration is zero.

Yes I know that, please I just want to know what I asked above so I can go on with something else.

It can’t be a deceleration of equal of the acceleration, I or you need to find out more on this, we need to look at things going up very fast and stopping very fast ? What about a grasshopper, let’s see if they say anything anywhere, or a ? Piston in an engine, we should be able to find some information on this, surely.

One thing, could we possibly answer my original question, why can’t anyone answer this ? Its not that hard, if I lower 80 pounds at 2m/s how much force is needed to bring it to a stop, and how much forces will go onto my muscles, it’s a lot more than 80 pounds I know that. As I have and always been on about the extra force, the ground, or in our case the more muscles reaction force, thus more tension on the muscles, that is more from the peak acceleration force from the transition from negative to positive, the MMMT {Momentary Maximum Muscles Tensions}. HOPE this question. Newton’s Third Law, is more of a physics equation you can easy work out and get your teeth into.

I think/hope we will all agree, in that if you lift a weight up, then immediately lower, then in a completely different lift, you lower, then immediately lift the weight, there will be more force needed on the second lift, as the moment I lifted the first 80 pounds, there would be just 80 pounds to lift, however, if 80 pounds is traveling down 20 inch in .5 of a second, the acceleration components will appear to make the 80 pounds, far far far heaver that it actually is. Could we please try and work out how much more heavy the weight would be, or register on a scales if you let it drop, and then the extra force that is needed on the second lift ? Say in % ways.

A,
You lift 80 pounds up, from a still start, to 20 inch in .5 of a second; the weight is moving at 40 inch per second, and you then immediately lower the weight back down in .5 of a second.

B.
You lower 80 pounds down 20 inches; you immediately lift the weight back up 20 inch.

Thank you all for your time and help.

Wayne
 
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Wayne (yet again)
I have looked at some of your last comments and I think I am getting to understand your problem. I should have got a clue from the extreme length of your posts. Your problem is that you don't actually know what question to ask so you just relate case after case of what you have experienced, in great detail, and want someone to make up a suitable question and then answer it for you.

I think that you may, in fact, have begun to accept that the mean force on an object, that starts and ends stationary, is just its weight. Good.

You still seem to think that there is a definite answer about Maximum force, related to rate of lifting. But you haven't accepted that it depends solely on the dynamics of what your muscles happen to be doing. It will depend on Energy / Food supply to the cells and all sorts of other chemical matters that Mechanics (which is the bit of Physics you are invoking) can discuss. There are many different combinations of force and time that can take your weight up to the top. A good lifter will make the best of what he's got and have found some sort of optimum.

There is, of course, an unspecific connection between lifting rate and the force needed and also the Power needed but you're far more dealing with Energy flow than just forces. Once the weight is back down again, all the energy you put into the exercise is lost (ignore a bit of bounce in your tendons) and the subsequent lifts will need equal amounts of energy. You will 'fade' when the muscle cells run out of temporary food and the input rate can't keep up and also the waste products build up (I imagine it's all Anaerobic?). You know all this, I'm sure, so why not apply it to your question?

What you CAN do, is to calculate the least force needed for a certain mass - height - time cycle. That assumes a constant lifting force for a while, followed by zero lifting force until the weight is brought to a halt by gravity. There's a bit of algebra which gives you a quadratic equation to solve. I tinkered with it enough to see that it can be done and the details seem to check out. BUT this is totally irrelevant to a real lift because the force is changing all the time (your machine tells you that). You can Measure this force in any case, so isn't that good enough for you? Perhaps a good lifter manages to keep his maximum force as low as possible and spread the demand over the lift. That would be most efficient, I think.

I think we have finally put to bed the concept of "Total Force".
 
  • #134
Sophiecentaur...I'll try to help you get into Wayne's incredible mind!

In biomechanics there's a term called Total Muscle Activation(TMA) that is a product of the processing of the EMG signal and is used by some scientists.The TMA is calculated by the integration of the EMG curve.
If you have the time...take a look at the "Materials and methods" paragraph at the below study.The procedure is described pretty well:
http://jmbe.bme.ncku.edu.tw/index.php/bme/article/viewFile/635/839

I'm sure that the TMA is exactly what Wayne describes as "total/overall force".

Obviously the TMA is not a physics term and should not be discussed here.
But since the average force is the same(the weight) in fast and slow lifting we can assume that also the average muscle activation is the same.Hence the integration of muscle activation in respect of time(TMA) must also be the same.

It's interesting that in the above study,if you check the tables,the TMA per second is greater for slow push ups!Who knows why?
 
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douglis said:
Sophiecentaur...I'll try to help you get into Wayne's incredible mind!

In biomechanics there's a term called Total Muscle Activation(TMA) that is a product of the processing of the EMG signal and is used by some scientists.The TMA is calculated by the integration of the EMG curve.
If you have the time...take a look at the "Materials and methods" paragraph at the below study.The procedure is described pretty well:
http://jmbe.bme.ncku.edu.tw/index.php/bme/article/viewFile/635/839

I'm sure that the TMA is exactly what Wayne describes as "total/overall force".

Obviously the TMA is not a physics term and should not be discussed here.
But since the average force is the same(the weight) in fast and slow lifting we can assume that also the average muscle activation is the same.Hence the integration of muscle activation in respect of time(TMA) must also be the same.

It's interesting that in the above study,if you check the tables,the TMA per second is greater for slow push ups!Who knows why?

That's interesting. The TMA is the sum of all activity over a period of time and that is going to depend on a lot of things, I reckon. It seems to me that we evolved with a certain minimum level of activity when doing heavy work so 'slow' work may just not be as efficient. In fact the whole system is not efficient; if it were, we'd need to have ratchets to lock our limbs in elevated positions once they were up there - rather than burning up energy and hurting ourselves as we do. (I believe horses lock their legs when they sleep standing up)
As you say, very little of this is Physics and Wayne seems to think that one can be 'bent' to fit the other.
It's been entertaining, though, at times.
 
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  • #136
sophiecentaur said:
Wayne (yet again)
I have looked at some of your last comments and I think I am getting to understand your problem. I should have got a clue from the extreme length of your posts. Your problem is that you don't actually know what question to ask so you just relate case after case of what you have experienced, in great detail, and want someone to make up a suitable question and then answer it for you.

Maybe I am not asking it right in the scientific way, however I do know what I am asking, and what I mean, and how in my opinion and a EMGs machine that I am right. A EMG is a well recognized machine in the sports and medical industries, tell me why you don’t go along in real World practical tests/studies, that have show there to be more muscle activity {force} when the muscle is used faster ? Do you both know what a force plate is ? It’s another well known machine in the sports and medical industries, if I buy one of those, or get professional tests done, and it goes the same way as my EMG, will you then look very deep into your equations ? Another thing that gets me, is I gave you may simple scenarios like the “bridge” that shows there must be more overall or total force when moving fast, but you did not comment on any of them ?

You muscles have a temporary limited force output, right ? I am asking which repetition speed uses that faster, or puts more tension on the muscles in the same time frame, so here I show you how the faster must put out more force per the same time, thus more tension on the muscles.

1,
We all agree that the faster repetition on using 80% of your 1RM, {repetition Maximum} that you fail rough 50% faster doing the fast.

Question,
As I fail 50% faster than the person moving the weight slow, are you two saying that after I lift the weights for 15 seconds and you for 30 seconds, that we have both used the same total or overall force ? Yes you have both been saying this all along.

Answer,
If I fail 50% faster, that must mean that I am using up more force per unit of time, right ? As I “have” used up my temporary muscular force, so as I “have” used it up, “how” can you say I have not used up my temporary force not faster than you, when I have ? So if we both lifted for 15 seconds, I would hit momentary muscular failure, meaning I “have” used up all my temporary muscular force, right ? But you have not used it up, thus I “must” be using more overall or total force per unit of time than you, right ? As the EMG states, so does the distance the weight is moves says, so does power say.

Also, if I hit momentary muscular failure at 15 seconds with that amount of weight, what would happen then if I picked up a lighter weight and keep on lifting it, at the 30 seconds when you hit temporary muscular failure, would I still have used the same total or overall force as you the slow, or used more ? Which let's me use more total or overall force, or the same as you doing the slow for 30 seconds ? Doing the lifts for 15 seconds, or doing the lifts for 15 seconds to momentary muscular failure and then lifting a lighter weight and keep going until 30 seconds ?

Or am I asking the wrong question, should I be asking the same of strength not force, but force is a push or pull, using force, that’s strength.

It could just be, that you thinking mistaken certainties, as you have not given any kind of equation that you are right. Mistaken certainties are things you're sure are true but which, in fact, are not, like WHY do the fast use more energy ? Just for once try and think and prove how that is, if as you think I am not using more force per unit of time ?

Also, you shot putt a weight, my weight goes further than yours, are you telling me, that to putt a shot further, you don’t use more overall or total force, but the exact same force as to move it less distance, then what do you use more of the move it further ? More acceleration, but that uses more force.

So are you saying that when something accelerates, and accelerates only for 600mm to something moving at a constant speed for 166mm, that both use the exact same total or overall force ?

sophiecentaur said:
I think that you may, in fact, have begun to accept that the mean force on an object, that starts and ends stationary, is just its weight. Good.

You are taking of the average force right ? Average in this instance/question/debate means nothing, will show you why tomorrow.

Sorry its 2.15, will have to get back to the below.

sophiecentaur said:
You still seem to think that there is a definite answer about Maximum force, related to rate of lifting. But you haven't accepted that it depends solely on the dynamics of what your muscles happen to be doing. It will depend on Energy / Food supply to the cells and all sorts of other chemical matters that Mechanics (which is the bit of Physics you are invoking) can discuss. There are many different combinations of force and time that can take your weight up to the top. A good lifter will make the best of what he's got and have found some sort of optimum.

There is, of course, an unspecific connection between lifting rate and the force needed and also the Power needed but you're far more dealing with Energy flow than just forces. Once the weight is back down again, all the energy you put into the exercise is lost (ignore a bit of bounce in your tendons) and the subsequent lifts will need equal amounts of energy. You will 'fade' when the muscle cells run out of temporary food and the input rate can't keep up and also the waste products build up (I imagine it's all Anaerobic?). You know all this, I'm sure, so why not apply it to your question?

What you CAN do, is to calculate the least force needed for a certain mass - height - time cycle. That assumes a constant lifting force for a while, followed by zero lifting force until the weight is brought to a halt by gravity. There's a bit of algebra which gives you a quadratic equation to solve. I tinkered with it enough to see that it can be done and the details seem to check out. BUT this is totally irrelevant to a real lift because the force is changing all the time (your machine tells you that). You can Measure this force in any case, so isn't that good enough for you? Perhaps a good lifter manages to keep his maximum force as low as possible and spread the demand over the lift. That would be most efficient, I think.

I think we have finally put to bed the concept of "Total Force".

when a muscle fails faster, why does it fail faster ? As its working harder or easier ? I and most would say harder, so that would mean using more force, yes ? If no, then why ?


Thank you for the rest, that sounds very interesting, dammed wish I had time to answer, as love what your saying/thinking. So please how do we calculate the least force needed for a certain mass.

Wayne
 
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When I say which uses the most overall/total force, I mean, if you lift 80 pounds for 10 seconds, and then lift 40 pounds for 10 seconds, you will have used more overall/total force lifting the 80 pounds for 10 seconds.

And you will in the above use more energy lifting the 80 pounds, right ? Thus EVERY time you use MORE energy, you have to use MORE force, right ? As you are using more acceleration and velocity = more force/energy.

You can not show me a faster lift, where you don't use more energy, when you are not using more acceleration/velocity and these = force,

Wayne
 
  • #138
You are asking about Work Done and forces. We have told you all we can about those strictly defined quantities. You have your own special set of meanings for those and other words you use.
Your machine tells you about your muscle activity. You ask why your musclus fade / tear under some extreme use. Clearly some forces and energy is involved but your muscles don't study Physics. You can't rely on them to behave as you want or even to do the best thing possible. They give up because you try to make them do more than they're prepared to do. They break because you abuse them into doing more than they're designed to do. What has that to do with Physics? They aren't like a dumb electric motor that will work or fail according to simple rules (that can be modeled fairly accurately). You will probably never know all the details of the biochemistry and biomechanics involved so stop trying to explain it all in terms of simple Physics.
Until you state your questions in the right words, used the right way, you can't get an answer.
Check up on and learn the accepted meanings of the terms you use. This 'Question and Answer' method that you insist on is just not working. You have to give just a little if you want a result.
 
  • #139
waynexk8 said:
When I say which uses the most overall/total force, I mean, if you lift 80 pounds for 10 seconds, and then lift 40 pounds for 10 seconds, you will have used more overall/total force lifting the 80 pounds for 10 seconds.

And you will in the above use more energy lifting the 80 pounds, right ? Thus EVERY time you use MORE energy, you have to use MORE force, right ?

Wayne

No...it's possible to use the same and even more energy by lifting explosively the 40 pounds even though the average force is the half.The huge fluctuations of force are very energy demanding.
In fact,there was a study that compared the energy expenditue of light weighted jump squats vs heavy squats.The jump squats used more energy but obviously their "total/overall force" was less.

For the last time.Greater energy expenditure doesn't equate greater force.
 
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Back in full tomorrow, been very busy.

First, we all agree that there is far far far more Power in the faster, right ? But is not Muscular power, the combination between force and velocity ? So more Power = more force and velocity !

Wayne
 
  • #141
Power = Force TIMES Velocity
Forget whether it's "muscle power" or power from anything else. Also, forget words like"far, far" - these things are just proportional. And Power is an instantaneous value, varying as force or velocity varies.
If you can accept this, then we have started talking the same language.
 
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  • #142
This was from an EMG expert. It shows my EMG results are quite right, and D. does not know the difference between the two EMGs, as basically there is no diffrence. What is basically proves, is that the on the faster reps, the higher peak forces from the accelerations, cannot be made up balanced out with the constant medium forces of the slower reps, when the faster reps are producing less force on the decelerations. This seems quite obvious to me, as if I struck something very hard like a heavy barbell, it’s going to put a huge jolt/tension on my muscles, do this 6 times in the same time frame as someone moving the barbell slow, and the muscles will, as they do feel very high tension on them and fatigue far far far faster than when moving the barbell slow.
Hi Wayne,

Thanks for considering our products - while our EMG systems are research orientated and will give you the best quality data, realistically in this situation the quality of your results will be far more dependent on the way that the system is used and the way that the data is interpreted. My advice would be to record the data as raw data - obtain the best raw EMG data that you can and then process the data to determine the results. By recording raw data you have the opportunity to reprocess the data in different ways to discover the best processing methods.

The difference between integrated mean EMG data and RMS EMG data is simply mathematical - the end results are simply derived from slightly different processing methods. I'd suggest a couple of books that you might want to obtain and read that discuss the different methods:

Cram JR, Kasman GS, Holtz J: Introduction to Surface Electromyography. Aspen Publishers ISBN 0-8342-0751-6
Craik RL, Otis CA : Gait Analysis:Theory and application. Mosby ISBN 0-8016-6964-2

Wayne
 
  • #143
sophiecentaur said:
Power = Force TIMES Velocity
Forget whether it's "muscle power" or power from anything else. Also, forget words like"far, far" - these things are just proportional.

Right.

sophiecentaur said:
And Power is an instantaneous value,

So "if" we were using the exact same power over 10 seconds, and could mesure/read this power to be the exact same every .1 of a seconds, could we say I 100J in 10 seconds, and for 20 seconds would be 100J

This equation for power states that a powerful machine/muscle is both strong and fast ?

sophiecentaur said:
varying as force or velocity varies.
If you can accept this, then we have started talking the same language.

Do you mean if force and velociry goes up so does power ? Or when power goes up so must force and velocity.

Wayne
 
  • #144
Wayne wrote; douglis wroute; said:
When I say which uses the most overall/total force, I mean, if you lift 80 pounds for 10 seconds, and then lift 40 pounds for 10 seconds, you will have used more overall/total force lifting the 80 pounds for 10 seconds.

And you will in the above use more energy lifting the 80 pounds, right ? Thus EVERY time you use MORE energy, you have to use MORE force, right ? As you are using more acceleration and velocity = more force/energy.

You can not show me a faster lift, where you don't use more energy, when you are not using more acceleration/velocity and these = force,

Wayne

douglis;3769291]No...it's possible to use the same and even more energy by lifting explosively the 40 pounds even though the average force is the half.The huge fluctuations of force are very energy demanding.

Sorry you got that wrong, I said if I lift 80 pounds for 10 seconds and 40 pounds for ten seconds, what I meant as I did not state speed or distance, was both amounts lifted the same speed and thus distance. This then would mean I have used more total or overall force and energy lifting the heaver weight.

douglis said:
In fact,there was a study that compared the energy expenditue of light weighted jump squats vs heavy squats.The jump squats used more energy but obviously their "total/overall force" was less.

You are one about different weights used, I am not.

douglis said:
For the last time.Greater energy expenditure doesn't equate greater force.

I am on about the same weight, the above was just to explain to you how you will use more total or overall force, it had nothing to do with the actual debate.

I move 80 pounds up and down 20 times in 10 seconds, you lift 80 pounds up and down 1 time in 10 seconds, I use more energy.

Greater energy expenditure does equate greater force, if you move the same weight faster in the same time frame.

Wayne
 
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waynexk8 said:
I move 80 pounds up and down 20 times in 10 seconds, you lift 80 pounds up and down 1 time in 10 seconds, I use more energy.

More energy yes...more peak force yes...but the average force is 80 pounds in both cases hence the forces "make up".

Greater energy expenditure does equate greater force, if you move the same weight faster in the same time frame.

Wayne

Well...since you discovered a new law...all you have to do is to prove it somehow or else it will remain a figment of your imagination.
 
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Wayne
You still seem to be insisting that your muscles and the way your body controls them are much simpler than they are. No one has argued that doing things faster can knacker you more and can damage muscles. It's just that you seem to insist on having a simple Physics formula - but not real Physics - your brand of Physics, in which all the names are jumbled up and re defined. No wonder we can't help you.
 
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douglis said:
1)The average force is the weight.

What your trying to say, or think, is that if you hold 80 pounds half way up for 10 seconds, and I move the weight up and down 20 times in 10 seconds, that we have both put out the exact same total/overall force thus tension on the muscles, right ?

“If” that were so, then why does anyone that uses 80% of their 1RM {repetition maximum} fail in lifting the weight, or/and hit momentary muscular failure say 50% faster ? I will tell you why. Its because the higher force needed for the accelerations, and for the decelerations, as on the decelerations you are still pressing with as much force as you can, its only on the very last portion of the lift that you immediately lower force very fast for the transition from positive to negative, then immediately on the negative there is force from the muscles thus tension on the muscles.

So there we have it, you fail faster, and this is basically because the faster reps “are” putting more tension on the muscles, so they fatigue/tire 50% faster. But your saying they don’t they fatigue/tire faster or put more tension on the muscles, your saying that they fatigue/tire 50% faster, because they use up more energy, and they use up more energy not because they are moving with greater acceleration = more force, or traveling with more velocity = more force, your saying they just they fatigue/tire faster because of no reason than they use more energy for some unknown reason, is that right ?

You also think that your medium forces can make up or balance out my higher forces, but you cannot say why ? However I can say why I say it’s not, as I move the weight 6 times more distance, use more power, that’s more energy and more work done.

Question to all please
If I was to lift and try to throw the same weight with open hands, are you saying then I would use more force ?

douglis said:
2)The peak force requires more data.If you use an accelerometer you can find the peak acceleration and then the peak force.

Yes.

douglis said:
3)Total or overall force doesn't exist in physics.What you're looking for is the integrated EMG or maybe you can describe it with gravity's impulse which is the same in both cases of your example(weight X 6 seconds).

So what about tension, can physics find out how much tension was put on so and so ?

No, that’s where the EMG and force plate come into action, these work out the total or overall force, or and average force.

If you think total or overall force does not exist in physics, why are you saying both lifts have the same total or overall force ?

We could call this total of overall force, total force with respect to time, so if I put 100 force on 80 pounds for 4 seconds, and you put 80 force on 100 pounds for 4 seconds, who put out the total or overall force ? As I would have moved the weight further, that would categorically say I did, right ? If not why ? If I put 100 force on 80 pounds for 4 seconds, and you put 80 force on 100 pounds for 6 seconds, who put out the total or overall force ? As I would have moved the weight further, that would categorically say I did, right ? if not why ? If I put 100 force on 80 pounds for 4 seconds, 79 pounds of force for 2 seconds, and you put 80 force on 100 pounds for 6 seconds, who put out the total or overall force ? As I would have moved the weight further, that would categorically say I did, right ? If not why ? And ? Means I am please asking you a question.

You seem to think, that as I move the weight further, I don’t use more total or overall force to do this ?

Wayne
 
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I do not subscribe to the term "total force". There is no such quantity in Physics. So the rest of your post means nothing, I'm afraid.
 
  • #149
sophiecentaur said:
Wayne
You still seem to be insisting that your muscles and the way your body controls them are much simpler than they are.

That are far more complicated, and am trying to simplify things, as instead of muscles, we can just say this is a machine pushing the muscles with force, and if you put too much strain on that machine, it will fail faster than the machine you don’t put as much strain, and strain in this case is higher force output, and thus more tension on the machines moving parts. Put to more strain on the machine, as in making it move as fast as it can with very high accelerations, and there will be too much tension on the machine, and it will fail. Same are the car that have been driven further, its parts fail faster, and that’s because more acceleration force thus tensions on the moving parts.

sophiecentaur said:
No one has argued that doing things faster can knacker you more and can damage muscles.

Ok thanks for that.

But I see it as the higher acceleration forces, anytime you move faster, it could be 3/3 against 10/10 in the same time frame, but every time you try and move faster, there has to be more acceleration, thus higher forces on the muscles.

sophiecentaur said:
It's just that you seem to insist on having a simple Physics formula - but not real Physics - your brand of Physics, in which all the names are jumbled up and re defined. No wonder we can't help you.

Sorry I am trying, but if D. is right, then physics does not have an equation for total or overall force, in the same time frame “could not we be the first to try and find one ?” As physics is physics, we should be able to work this out somehow, or is it the power equation, power = force acceleration ? Thus we all know there is more power in the faster, if more power and more power = more force acceleration, then am I not right ?

Will read the other posts later and get back to them, thank you for your time and help again.

What if a bought a force plate ?

Wayne
 
  • #150
waynexk8 said:
your saying they just they fatigue/tire faster because of no reason than they use more energy for some unknown reason, is that right ?

No...the reason is very well known.Biology studies tell us that the fluctuations of force are more energy demanding.

You also think that your medium forces can make up or balance out my higher forces, but you cannot say why ?

Everyone has told you why.Because the average force is the weight in any case.This by definition means that "your" higher peaks are exactly balanced by "your" lower peaks and the result is "my" medium force(the weight).

“could not we be the first to try and find one ?”
Wayne
First learn to use the basic physics terms and leave your big plans for the much later future.
 
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