Timer · preset of emom timer
20 minute EMOM timer
Twenty minutes on the minute. Long enough that it works better as two blocks of ten than as one unbroken run.
Open the full emom timer to change anything this preset fixes
The timer
- Minutes
- 20
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
- 20:10
- Working
- 20:00
- Periods
- 21
- 01ReadyGet ready0:10
- 02WorkWork1:00
- 03WorkWork1:00
- 04WorkWork1:00
- 05WorkWork1:00
- 06WorkWork1:00
- 07WorkWork1:00
- 08WorkWork1:00
- 09WorkWork1:00
- 10WorkWork1:00
- 11WorkWork1:00
- 12WorkWork1:00
- 13WorkWork1:00
- 14WorkWork1:00
- 15WorkWork1:00
- 16WorkWork1:00
- 17WorkWork1:00
- 18WorkWork1:00
- 19WorkWork1:00
- 20WorkWork1:00
- 21WorkWork1:00
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How it works
Twenty minutes is the point where an EMOM needs a plan rather than a rep count. Run unbroken at a sensible pace it is a long, flat session where the middle ten minutes do very little.
Two blocks of ten with two or three minutes between them works better. Each block can be run at a real intensity, and the recovery between them means the second is a genuine second effort rather than a continuation of the first.
At twenty minutes the reps have to be low. Work taking twenty-five seconds when fresh will take forty by minute sixteen, and anything greedier than that runs out of clock.
Used for strength rather than conditioning it is a good way to accumulate volume. Three reps at a weight you could do eight with, every minute for twenty minutes, is sixty quality reps and very little grinding.
Questions
- Should twenty minutes be one block or two?
- Two blocks of ten with a real rest between them, for most people. Twenty unbroken minutes gets paced badly and the middle third turns into filler.
- How low should the reps go?
- Low. Work that takes twenty-five seconds fresh is about right, which usually means cutting a ten minute EMOM rep count in half.
- Is this a conditioning session or a strength session?
- Either, depending on the load. Light and fast is conditioning. Three heavy reps a minute for twenty minutes is a volume session for strength.