Recovery times as function of intensity

[Bestafter60]

I know we need time to recover from intense effort. Can you relate "time at intensity" to "time needed for recovery"? For example, at a given weight if I pull 2 deadlifts at a 5RM weight, for a "time at intensity" of probably 10 seconds total, how much less time do I need to recover than if I did 5 reps for a "time at intensity" of 30 seconds? Any science out there that says you need, for example, 20 seconds of recovery for each second of intensity? Would be useful for program design. Would vary with age of course.

[Adam Skillin]

I know we need time to recover from intense effort. Can you relate "time at intensity" to "time needed for recovery"? For example, at a given weight if I pull 2 deadlifts at a 5RM weight, for a "time at intensity" of probably 10 seconds total, how much less time do I need to recover than if I did 5 reps for a "time at intensity" of 30 seconds? Any science out there that says you need, for example, 20 seconds of recovery for each second of intensity? Would be useful for program design. Would vary with age of course.

Really interesting thought. I highly doubt it's a nice, linear kind of function though, even for time spent at each given percentage of 1RM.

[MBasic]

Would vary with age of course.

. . and sex (M/F).
. . . and lifter advancement (novc, int, adv)
. . . . and exercise (squat vs OHP, etc)
. . . . . and about a dozen other things; some of which we may not even know about yet . . .

[Adam Skillin]

You're making headway with the fancy maths, young Adam. If one were to start searching for a closed form approximation to this problem I'd expect it to be logarithmic/exponential.

Exponential or logarithmic function of the intensity as a percentage, or the time under tension?

[Satch12879]

You're making headway with the fancy maths, young Adam. If one were to start searching for a closed form approximation to this problem I'd expect it to be logarithmic/exponential.

If that. I'd bet highly non-linear, with multiple ranges.

But that's icky.

[therealwill84]

I'm an engineer, so I know that everything is linear if you look at it closely enough.