How does fatigue affect you? does your poundage differ by a large or small amount?
Muscle Fatigue
There is an indirect relationship between muscle fatigue and strength and you technique.
As muscle fatigue increase, you strength decreases and you technique changes, not for the better.
the rest between work sets is a bigger factor
Rest/Recovery
As per Anna, it is a big factor.
Limit Strength, Power and Speed Training utilized the Phosphagen Energy System, ATP.
Research shows that 50% of your ATP is restored to the muscle in approximately 30 seconds. Approximately, 80% with in around 45 seconds. With complete restoration of ATP occuring in 3 minutes plus.
Pavel Tsatsouline on GTG, optimal rep count and rest duration for strength
As per Pavel, "If you really want to be strong, the rest period is 5 to 15 minutes between sets".
The Pecking Order of Exercises
As common sense dictates, the first exercise in you training program allow you to be produce the more force in; Limit Strength, Power, Speed...
The last exercise in your training program, due to fatigue, is going produce the least amount of force.
Thus, if you want to increase Strength in a particular exercise, perform it first in your program.
Power cleans have always seemed to help other lifts following for me, depending on how heavy I go. If they're feeling fresh
Great point...
Building Strength and Power With Complex Training - World Class Bodybuilding Forum
Before discussing how complex training can improve your powerlifting, let's take a look at what complex training is.
Pavel Tsatsouline defined complex training in his book,
Beyond Stretching as
"[t]he plyometric/weight lifting sequence". More specifically, complex training involves
the performance of an explosive plyometric movement followed by a strength movement. Tsatsouline definitely felt like it worked. He explained that since
preceding a strength movement with a similar, explosive plyometric movement allows for a greater weight to be used during a strength movement,
a greater training effect is elicited. He gave
the example of Dr Fred Hatfield would,
during competition, precede his squat with a verticle jump..."
If I have 3 big lifts in one session, I'd usually cycle the weights and do the first one heaviest, while allowing the other two to have light/medium loads, ...
Optimal Programming
As Philippe noted, an all out effort with the first exercise is going to take something out of the other two exercises that follow.
That means you need to back off to some degree on the exercise the follow.
Or as Steve posted...
A lot. I tend to GTG, spreading out my lifting over the day, and sometimes even taking 10-20 minutes between sets of the same exercise.
I usually have loads planned, but sometimes audibles are required. ...if one decides the squats are feeling good today, so it's a good day to push it,
Autoregulation
This is one of the keys to training, a common sense approach.
If you're feeling strong, push it. If not, back off.
If you were to decide to hit two lifts very hard, do the less demanding one first, i.e. Press before the deadlift.
Not A Fan
Performing a hard Pressing Exercise is going to take something out of your Deadlift, just be aware of that an adjust for it.
However, if you do have you want to optimize train two lifts hard in the same training session, you need to take a long break between those two exercise; taking up to 30 minutes.
if your drills are the three powerlifts, you might do the first session as SQ/BP/DL, the next session BP/DL/SQ, and the next session DL/SQ/BP.
Not A Fan Of This Method, Either
Yes, this is an alternative that can be effectively implemented.
This is one method that I've used in the past. I personally prefer to focus on on thing at a time.
Kenny Croxdale