In the late 1950s, Vitaly Pavlovich emphasized that strength athletes should focus on lifting heavy weights for sets of three to five repetitions.

“in then in the late 50s uh some very sharp young specialist vital chov he uh made a case at a conference what are we doing let's look at what he said let's look at Paul Anderson D hebburn Bruce Randall these North American strength THS let's look what they're doing they're lifting heavy stuff for sets of three to five reps let's knock this down s off soov track athlet started doing that right there”