Quote (7_Deadly_Sins @ May 25 2013 06:53pm)
Some raw some suited.
I'll be honest with you, I've never tried that before, and it looks like a cluster of confusing %s.
I feel like you'd waste a TON of strength/energy going up and down like that. I just do
whatever x bar
135x5-10
225x3-5
315x1
405x1
455x1
495x1
Max
Max
Max
That's if I'm doing a squat max, such as at a meet.
It wasn't that confusing really as there is a pattern.
We'll say for my example for hang clean:
5x195 65%
3x235 80%
4x205 70%
2x250 85%
3x220 75%
1x265 90%
2x235 80%
1x295 100%
So, if you tease it apart, it would be like doing a set of 5,4,3,2 with increase of 10-15lbs interspersed with a set of 3,2,1,1 with increases of 15-30lbs. Your body actually can't perceive small changes in load very well when you are dealing with higher loads(surprisingly - at least according to Weber's Law), so toward the end the weights start to mess with your head a bit when you are bouncing around with the percentages - it didn't get more difficult from my experience though.
The way you just described is very similar to how I've done maxes with squat/bench, which I never really plateaued on.
ex (my bench max - I liked having more gradual jumps in weight, as in never more than 60lbs between sets):
15xBar
12x95
10x135
8x195
4x255
2x315
1x345
1x365
1x385
1x405
I did get stuck with olympic lifts though, so my coach had me do the wave thing as described above for a few workouts when they stalled and it resulted in a PR.
I have presented this to both burns and boxa and one point or another in the past, and neither of them have dealt with it either. I just didn't think this was that "out there" for 3 of the more established lifters here to have never seen it/done it before.