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Patient has been lifting for six years and has never actually tested their true one-rep max on any lift. Insists their 'working sets' are 'basically maxes.' Cannot say a specific number when asked at a BBQ. Has now estimated the number upward by 15 lbs twice. Nobody is verifying.
Chronic. The uncertainty is protective.
None. The true number, untested, remains aspirational.
Patients with Chronic 1RM Testing Avoidance typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic 1RM Testing Avoidance is a chronic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Fuga testus gravissimus — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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