My training partner and I have made constant progress since February 2015. I've said it all started with my attendance of Donny Shankle's seminar and his idea of finding a PR everyday.
We have found that we have constantly improved in 90% of our weightlifting sessions by going for a " ___ rep max" on lifts instead of shooting for a specific # of reps at a specific percentage. What I mean is that we will go for a heavy 2 rep overhead squat or a heavy paused back squat triple or a 5 rep max power snatch, etc.....
So we will look to see what lift needs to be done, what rep scheme (out of 1, 2, 3, 5, or occasionally 10) and we will build to that for the day. Always knowing what we did the last time we attempted that particular lift and reps, we have had constant success this last year at adding to all of our lifts.
It flies in the face of a lot of conventional programming that promotes percentage work. But we feel that percentage work tends to leave reps on the table, so to speak. Very, very often I can do more than what is prescribed, and I realize that is often times by design, but once we switched to this particular method of programming/training, our results went through the roof.
That's it, keeps it simple and keeps us progressing!
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