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[QUOTE="timkay99, post: 1518917, member: 635"]
I am anti-max effort during the season too.

2 lifts per week in season?  That is a complete non-starter and no way you maintain strength in 2 lifts per week.

I am referring to (with the 5 x 5) as our out of season lifting (power phase).  The in season phase (which we are in now, is 3 or 4 days a week - we have 2 separate in season phasees - and involves reps of 8-10 w/ no squatting or barbell benching).

Athletes should definitely have some assisted lifting.  To get stronger, you need assistance (referring to the squats and bench).  This isn't lifting for them, but using the finger method where you give them as minimal assistance as they need to lock out reps.  You are the first person I have heard to suggest the spotter should just be there to help re-rack the weight.

If our guys did those lifts 2 days a week during the season and we enforced it, we would have a revolt on our hands from half the team and a team full of fatties on the other end.

I have worked around millions of athletes from professional and collegiate level.  Your small sample is incorrect, many do not like lifting or doing too much weight.  Most want to do low weight and just knock it out and be done.
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