For example, your coach might ask you to perform 10 reps on the deadlift with 60% of your one-rep max on the exercise. Now, you could go all-out on the lift and try lifting as heavy as possible to determine your 1RM, but it increases your odds of an injury, especially if you are...
Let’s say you have never lifted more than 90 kg in thedeadlift. That is until you have an awesome workout in which you lift 100 kg for one rep for a PR. It was terribly heavy, and you are absolutely certain that you couldn’t have lifted another kilo. In this scenario and on th...