Powerlifters should perform heavy singles, doubles, and triples to develop the skill of maximal force production.

“and you were practicing at what percent of ultimately became 661 usually around 90 995 um but not very much at 95 mostly at 90 for like singles and what was your rpe when you did those singles so usually about eight and a half or nine”

“and you were practicing at what percent of ultimately became 661. usually around 90 95 um but not very much at 95 mostly at 90. for like singles and what was your rpe when you did those singles so usually about eight and a half or nine yeah okay so and so you would do multiple of that just doing the math let's just say that's 620 or something like that or yes yeah so say it's called 600 pounds so you would do a 600 pound signal three times in a workout something like that okay yeah and what your what you're kind of making gains on at that point is just your one it just teaches you how to grind through a lift uh because a lot of people have never had the experience of really sticking with a lift and interestingly the more advanced somebody gets in terms of strength the slower their one rep max velocity will be and when we see this in uh research studies all the time somebody who's kind of new will come in they will absolutely smoke a weight you put five pounds on and then they get stapled because it's just they don't have that grind capacity they don't they don't know how to do it and part of that may be psychological but part of that's probably physiological too so interesting in terms of you just haven't trained your body to recruit all the fibers that it can get so you know lean body mass and strength are very closely tied together but when it gets to those finer levels of strength it's kind of just practicing the actual you know one rep max”

“and you were practicing at what percent of ultimately became 661. usually around 90 95 um but not very much at 95 mostly at 90. for like singles and what was your rpe when you did those singles so usually about eight and a half or nine yeah okay so and so you would do multiple of that just doing the math let's just say that's 620 or something like that or yes yeah so say it's called 600 pounds so you would do a 600 pound signal three times in a workout something like that okay yeah”

“it's not like I added weight to the bar that I was able to squat but it's not like I added that much more body mass because I didn't uh I was practicing the skill of a one rep max which allowed me to better do the one rep max”

“if you want to get better at a one rep max you have to be doing sets with you know heavy singles doubles triples because that is a specific skill set you need that to one learn how to grind hard reps and two just feel what heavyweight feels like and how to manage that under stress so you need those sets”