by mchean » Wed May 19, 2010 4:55 pm
Let's take the Pomodoro timer as an example. You have a 25 minute countdown to do a task, and then you take a 3 to 5 min. break before the next 25 min. session. You are supposed to do this for 4 cycles and on the 4th cycle take a longer break. So your timer would be set up to do the following 25min-5min-25min-5min-25min-5min-25min-5(actually longer) countdowns.
Or say you are doing a Tabata workout. In this workout you do 20 seconds worth of excercise and then a 10 second rest period for 8 cycles (a total of 4 minutes). In this case you're doing 20-10-20-10 etc for 8 cycles.
Is that clearer?
Let's take the Pomodoro timer as an example. You have a 25 minute countdown to do a task, and then you take a 3 to 5 min. break before the next 25 min. session. You are supposed to do this for 4 cycles and on the 4th cycle take a longer break. So your timer would be set up to do the following 25min-5min-25min-5min-25min-5min-25min-5(actually longer) countdowns.
Or say you are doing a Tabata workout. In this workout you do 20 seconds worth of excercise and then a 10 second rest period for 8 cycles (a total of 4 minutes). In this case you're doing 20-10-20-10 etc for 8 cycles.
Is that clearer?