How you set up your max effort work is crucial to setting up the rest of the session. Don’t just pick random exercises here.

As with anything in training, the answer always is “it depends.” With the max effort method, I can do one of these things for two hours just on advanced principles that deal with the max effort method, or I can do one very that’s simple. I choose simple.

The max effort scheme you used for your last powerlifting meet will not work for your athletes. Keep these things in mind when implementing this style of training in athletes.

You can be certain that every great lifter you admire has mastered auto-regulation. If you want to be great, you’ll need to do the same.