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What you should care about is your failed lifts. They are above the "daily max" and they eat your CNS.

Doing lifts just because you squatted 180 kg 2 months ago and therefore that's the weight you should be squatting any time you want is just wrong.

That's why daily maxes are established (where the daily max is just a heavy single, not a 10 second grinder) and that's why you lower the weight after you are establishing that daily max.

But whatever man, do whatever you want to do.

This ^^^

And the better you get, the less you should aim for a true max, and the more recovery you will need after a true max.

Are you SURE they max out daily?

So if I put on my max 160 kg squat every day, which is going to be a huge grinder or a fail every now and then, I won't overtrain? Good luck with that one.

The reality is that the stronger you get, the more time for recovery you need from TRUE max attempts.

Now if you go with 90-95% of max, that's a whole other story.

Failing your attempts proves that you've gone to your true max.

Why is your CNS fatigued? Hm...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

You thought only volume tires the CNS?

Check this out:

Legs were jelly, had no desire to front squat heavy but i forced myself to attempt a 132kg max single anyway

i had meant to do triple with 130kg but wore myself out before i could attempt them

A string of failures today when I should have done a lot better. Oh well. I prob picked the wrong weight after getting that 2nd very good triple, should have done doubles with 135kg after that, or maybe just one double and then another double with 132.5 or something like that instead of failing 2 doubles!

Im getting that dreadful about-to-hit-the-wall feeling as I aproach 120kg though

That 130 was a max effort lift though. I think i repeat it until i can get the 130kg easier

I wanted to do triples or doubles with 135-137.5kg, in reality the 135 doubles were close enough to 2RM that i had no business thinking of doing more sets

My goal from last session was to do a PR of 8x120kg today -- but -- having failed the 4th rep of 130kg

so i thought go for the 7x122.5 PR instead, and came close but failed the 7th

It's been so long since i front squatted 130kg but we're back there albeit it's a ugly grindy max right now rather than easy warmup

Why put your back into unsafe positions with the deadlift, when you can do bad form squats and get a great spinal work?

The deadlift is just unsafe.

To increase compliancy, the load has to be light. When you do a dynamic warm-up, or dynamic stretching, you don't put out a lot of force or load on that joint, so the load is light and it goes on a long ROM => increases that tendon's compliance.

So you want compliant hip flexor tendons (dynamic warm-up, leg swings, stuff like that), stiff quad tendons (1/4 and 1/2 squats, high intensity 2-leg bounds, consecutive hurdle jumps - this is the area where I'm personally the weakest, and an area where you can FINALLY find a good reason to do half squats and quarter squats) and stiff Achilles tendons (heavy calf raises, intense calf-oriented plyos (one leg bounds, depth jumps)).

If you break it down like this, then you can have a good idea of how to program a plyo workout to get all these three better.

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