Instead, I recommend that we take a page from the famous Bulgarian powerlifters’ books and imitate their counterintuitive type of training for hitting one-rep lifts. They didn’t stomp around like a madman or spend 15 minutes amping themselves up to screaming guitars and vocals. Instead, they just walked up to the bar and hit the lift as calmly and solidly as they could. If they couldn’t get it without overstimulating their nervous systems, they considered it to be too much weight.
