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Yeah I think he got from 80 kg for his work sets to about 100 if I remember right.

I'm using squat + one-leg straight leg deadlifts all the way to the floor (they're great at targeting my glutes) supersetted with leg curls (I won't ever do GHRs again since they destroy my knees) in workout A, and squat + lunges++leg curls (++ = supersetted) in workout B.

And no, never did that. The most I did was 5x5 work sets with heavy weights in the past (like 2 years ago or so). I tend to quickly lose my mental focus and form when I do high reps per set... it's like I can't maintain my mind into doing the exercise.

You're probably right about the low rep stuff. Last winter I did my own 8-7-6-5 with the same weight as work sets.

So basically if I had 100 as my weight, I'd do 100x8, 100x7, 100x6 and 100x5 as my last set. That ensured I can maintain my mental focus during the sets, since I knew I had to do less and less reps as I went by with my sets. It worked pretty good.

When I stalled I took away one of the sets and continue on getting the weight up. So I might go with 8-7-6 or 7-6-5 (top rep set or low rep set eliminated) and go on with that. I wrote about this in the evo blog.

What's up Raptor, you got into bodybuilding mode now or what's the deal? Why the focus on hypertrophy suddenly instead of strength?

  I wouldnt reccomend the 20 rep squats (or even a "hypertrophy block") in your case Raptor, you are constantly having issues with the bar hurting your shoulders/wrists, your knees hurt, etc.  A good set of 20 rep squats will likely be very painful regarding your issues and cause you to not complete the sets with adequate loading.  

  Sets of 5, sets of 6, sets of 3, etc. are going to be more about what you PUT INTO THE REP than how many reps you actually perform.  Alot of athletes can focus much better on form, speed, tightness, etc. during a lower rep range and will gain more strength and hypertrophy from this range than they would doing a higher rep set where a high number of reps get sloppy and slow due to different forms of fatigue, irrelevant to your actual goal.  

 I agree that rotating set/rep ranges is the way to go, I just wouldnt put an exact number on it such as 5 and 8, I would do 4 x 3-5, and 3 x 8-10, or something of that nature.  That gives you some room for the days when youre stronger than normal to go up a couple of reps as well as when your not feeling well to still make the rep range.  

 Its just my personal experience but going into a set "hypertrophy block" for an athlete wanting strength and jumping gains has never worked out well.  The switching period is always too long going back to an explosive/speed emphasis and often the CNS is firing on very low levels.  But I would never have an athlete do a session that didnt always include some type of explosive strength or reactive type movements in it either.  Movement effeciency, cns effeciency, etc. should always be maintained to some degree imo.

Oh and about the hypertrophy stuff: if you look at Shannon Brown, he's having massive posterior chain muscle mass... yet he jumps 45+ off one leg. You can see he voluntarily generates the force to get up there.

What I meant by "yet" is that people tend to say that in order to jump well off one leg you need to be rail-skinny... and that going for hypertrophy (I see Shannon as being "too big" to consider him a great one leg jumper the first time I ever see him/not knowing if he's able to jump or not) is going to kill your one-leg jump (even if the hypertrophy occurs in the "right" places).

Same goes for D Wade, LeBron and other people. They might have thin ankles etc but they have "big" muscles in the upperlegs/butt.

So a 8RM rep scheme is a bodybuilding rep scheme? 8RM is decent for strength gains and more towards hypertrophy than a 5RM rep scheme is... I don't think there's a huge difference. 12-15 reps would be.

I mean, do you find anything wrong going with 8 rep sets in a workout and 5 rep sets in another?