Timer · preset of emom timer
10 minute EMOM timer
Ten minutes, ten sets, one at the top of each minute. The shortest EMOM that still teaches you to pace by the clock.
Open the full emom timer to change anything this preset fixes
The timer
- Minutes
- 10
Named stations appear on the clock as they come up. Leave it as it is to run one unnamed block.
The clock runs fullscreen and keeps the screen awake. It needs JavaScript, so with scripting off the plan below is the whole session written out.
- Total
- 10:10
- Working
- 10:00
- Periods
- 11
- 01ReadyGet ready0:10
- 02WorkWork1:00
- 03WorkWork1:00
- 04WorkWork1:00
- 05WorkWork1:00
- 06WorkWork1:00
- 07WorkWork1:00
- 08WorkWork1:00
- 09WorkWork1:00
- 10WorkWork1:00
- 11WorkWork1:00
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0:00
How it works
Ten minutes is the right length to learn an EMOM on. It is long enough that a bad rep choice shows up, and short enough that a bad choice does not ruin twenty minutes.
Pick work that takes about half a minute when you are fresh. That leaves thirty seconds of rest for the first few minutes, which shrinks to fifteen or less by minute eight as fatigue slows you down. The shrinking rest is the training effect.
Ten swings a minute for ten minutes is a hundred swings in ten minutes with no decisions to make. That simplicity is why the format survives.
If you are still working at fifty seconds by minute four, the reps were too high. Cut them for the rest of the session rather than pushing through, because an EMOM you cannot finish inside the minute has stopped being one.
Questions
- What should I put in each minute?
- Work that takes about thirty seconds fresh. Ten kettlebell swings, five power cleans or twelve push-ups all fit, and each leaves half a minute of rest early on.
- Is ten minutes long enough to matter?
- Yes. The last three minutes are where the format bites, and getting there tired is the whole exercise.
- Can I do two movements?
- Yes, alternating them minute by minute. Each then gets two minutes between efforts, which lets the reps be higher.