PT Pyramid rest?

broli · Jul 2, 2023

This workout EC is:

Extra Credit: 30 seconds rest before descending the pyramid.

But it states:

So it looks like that there is no rest.

Do you rest when you reach muscle failure? If yes how much?

Shikari · Jul 2, 2023

Good questions. I think the Darebee team anticipated that people doing the PT Pyramid were GOING to rest as needed due to muscle fatigue. The advice is usually to rest about 10 seconds or so. That would likely be "normal" resting. For those who don't need rest due to muscle fatigue, they can take a 30 second break before the descent.

broli · Jul 3, 2023

The advice is usually to rest about 10 seconds or so.

After each step?

@Damer @Redline Could you clarify the rest and EC for this WO?

Damer · Jul 3, 2023

@broli The EC part of each workout is called up separately when the page is pulled together. We missed this one and what came through was not what was intended so thank you so much for drawing attention to it. We have fixed it now and there is no rest on this workout. Although that, is relative, during testing we saw that the Jumping Jacks phase actually helped people recover.

broli · Jul 15, 2023

@Damer Let's say that you are doing pull-ups for the step 6, you can do only 5 so you start descending.
You completed step 5 and you have to do the 4 right? Or since you were doing the 6 you have to do the 5?

And do you start over with the pull-ups or the failed reps (step 6) count?

Damer · Jul 15, 2023

@broli the pyramid has a peak and the peak is unique. So if you were doing from 1 - 6 (as an example) then you start to descend and your next step is 5. I hope this helps.

broli · Jul 15, 2023

@Damer Right thanks.
You start over with the reps also right?

Damer · Jul 15, 2023

Yes, exactly @broli

broli · Jul 18, 2023

Currently I don't have much pull-up power so as expected I got muscle failure when doing them.
Especially If I do some and I get muscle failure, after I can get a small number of reps even with 2 minute of pure rest.

I did the WO with EC, the closer thing to rest here, and as expected I couldn't complete the requested reps for the step, when descending.
Without EC I would have to do pull-ups immediately after failing them so in that moment I can do like 0 reps.

Since there is no rest I moved to the push-ups, instead of taking some and complete the requested reps.
What should I do in this case?

Took me a few steps to finally manage the pull-up reps (when descending).