I like the idea that all reps should look the same and generally I think it's true.
The caveats or exceptions, some of which are mentioned in your video @Boris Bachmann or by others:
The caveats or exceptions, some of which are mentioned in your video @Boris Bachmann or by others:
- Physics can change the angles, as the weight gets heavier. (best example: a heavy barbell squat)
- Technique changes as you get stronger. Therefore, reps today may look different from reps a year ago.
- Technique changes as you become better, or more skilled, or just decide to use a different technique. Therefore, reps today may look different from reps a year ago.
- Warm-up reps may be intentionally used as mobility. For example, first set of squats, move around a bit at the bottom of the rep, push the knees out sort of like a prying goblet squat, or good morning it a bit, or put more arch in the back. In this way you're using the warm-up to "warm up" a bigger range of motion that may come into play with heavier sets, if needed (and may help find the ideal groove by finding the edges, if that makes sense).
- Sometimes speed is increased for lighter weights, intentionally for rate of force development, or to put focus on speed that can then be used as an intention to move the weight faster when it's heavier even if it doesn't comply.
Agree. As weightlifting coach Danny Casey told me (paraphrasing from my notes of our conversation): "Heavy tends to send technique out the window, but shouldn't be like that (and won't be, with experience). Technique is absolute in weightlifting. It's how you move the weight. Technique is the optimization of natural mechanics. You have to move the bar in space, and your body around the bar. If you let heavy make you do things differently, you're negating that optimization of mechanics. The goal is to perfect how you move. The weight on the bar is a measure of your ability to maintain that. Lift with intention with every weight "How you do anything is how you do everything." Every single thing you do should be purposeful. Make like movements as similar as possible."Olympic Lifter are the Poster Children for Technique Training.