Topic: intermediate, advanced & elite training......

[Aussie]

Fella's, just a quick question...

my coach & i were talking last night. I was explaining how i feel the most effective when working in the range of 75 & 85 % of my 1RM. He went on to say how that's a great range to build on strength. He also suggested that intermediate, advanced & elite lifters generally spend most of their time training at a lower percentage, so they can focus on power / speed, with obviously some strength mixed in there.

Does this sound right? I'm not doubting my coach I'm just wanting to know what you've heard or experienced!

[Chuck Lopez]

the bulgarians go to max everday, however I've also heard that even the soviets took a good perecentage of their training in the 90% range and then 75-85% was the 2nd most frequent percentages they lifted within, elite lifters don't lift with light percentages or if they do its not too often, medvedyev used very light perecentages a good portion of the time but training's evolved since then