Nope…I wouldn’t take part in anything like CrossFit endurance training. If tomorrow were my last day on this earth, I wouldn’t want to end my life with one of the regular intense CrossFit workouts. A third situation includes few factors that can make intensity prescriptions obscure as well. Like when you stumble into specific exercises for which 1RMs don’t exist at all. Maybe you run into exercises for which 1RMs are not possible or not advisable. Also, there can be such a routines, for which 1RMs have not been tested yet.
Weightlifting Program Plan
The next situation is in a program in which the trainer wants the powerlifter to workout as intense as possible on any given session. This may mean aspiring to a single maximal or near-maximal set (perhaps with subsequent back-off sets). Then lifter’s hitting a prescribed number of sets of the maximal number of weights per set. In such a situation it’s always better to listen to the coach’s personal guidance. No one except your trainer will be able to intuitively…
