OCS question: Resting trade-offs per body type

[Connie Brown]

Scott, during the OCS rules clinic you mentioned tradeoffs with respect to resting and different body types. Like Brandon can do it one way, with his body type, and a different rest style works works better with yours. Something about pump. Could you say that again please?

[Scott Sonnon]

Connie,

The main issue regarded a trade-off in efficiency. If you remember, when Shoulder Parking the Swipes, one must return to Back Position before restarting or one does not receive credit for the rep performed with a break in between.

This rule prevents people catching each Swipe in Shoulder Park and just levering the Clubbells back into the Swing portion. That would change the Swipe into a 'Swing Caught in Shoulder Park'. As you know, a Swipe is a Swing + Armpit Cast.

The difficulty here is that when one rests, one must stop the backward inertia in Back Position and lift them into Shoulder Park (or risk the danger of catching them in Shoulder Park while fatigued).

Furthermore, since one must move from Shoulder Park to Back Position to begin, one has little to no inertia to blast out of Back Position. Therefore, it requires more energy reserves to come out of BP.

The conclusion here is that it's a tradeoff to rest. Rest too often and one will meet diminishing returns on recovery, since it costs more energy to restart than the elastic efficiency of continuous reps.

Some athletes prefer to drop a half rep each time they Shoulder Park by just levering the Clubbells back into the Swing phase. The rationale here is that once in motion the rep is more efficient (for them) than resting, returning to Back Position and restarting.

In other words, they trade-off the energy used for the dropped half-rep to regain continuous motion, rather than the energy used to launch cold out of Back Position.

I feel predisposed towards the latter, though others prefer the former.