My earlier post referenced an article by Pavel Tsatsouline who outlined his “Greasing the Groove” principle for developing strength. For pure strength athletes this approach should definitely be considered as you develop your training program.
Pavel stresses focus on a specific lift (chins, dips, squat, snatch). Intense repetitions will increase strength and endurance of the nerve impulse to the muscles involved. In this type of training you will want to work your way up in volume and intensity, which will help guard against overtraining. Pavel says, “train as often as possible while being fresh as possible.”
He also warns to stop each set short of failure: “pushing to exhaustion will burn out your neuromuscular system and force you to cut back on volume.” Work a comfortable number of reps into multiple sets spaced out throughout the day. This is a tall order for most of us, and may not be very practical for you. For those of you working from home or who can throw up a pull up bar in your office, you’re in business.