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Message: [QUOTE="timkay99, post: 1518890, member: 635"] Is that solely a Wednesday lift - what do the other lifts look like over the course of a week? I strongly disagree with your (or whomever's) ideas of week 1, 2 and 3. I have never heard of 2 sets of low reps, we typically do (which is what our power phase will be) 5 sets of 5 reps. If you are maxing 405, your reps at 205 for only 2 sets is nothing and you don't even need a spotter. And I would argue that is the same case for every lift up there. 2 sets of 4 reps at 305 for a guy that maxed 405 will give a small challenge on the 4th rep of probably the 2nd set. Otherwise, it isn't that difficult to rep out. If it was me and a guy was maxing 405, he better be doing 12 reps of at least 250. He made need assistance, but that is the point of spotting and assisted lifting. You talk a lot about college athletes' ego in the weight room. Honest question, did you play on a team? A lot of college athletes straight do not like working out. Most of our team was more then happy to go through the motions and get out of the weight room so they could stuff their face with pizza or hit on girls or do a variety of other things that are more fun then lifting. And many college athletes don't really know what lifting means, what a set should feel like, etc. You really need to teach some freshman how to lift and what your arms should feel like during a set, etc. This is just me, but I have never seen value in doing athletic lifting of anything less then 5 reps. I am willing to listen on why to do less reps, but the weight (in my experience) doesn't change from 5 reps to 3 reps in the athlete's mind. When we are doing 5 reps, we are doing 3 reps that the athlete can do by themselves and 2 reps where a spotter will need to assist w/ a finger on both hands (for bench) or be there to keep the back straight (on squat). You can do high reps to exhaustion just like you can do low reps to exhaustion. [/QUOTE]

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