Interesting... I will have to think about that. I can't think of anything that jumps out me as absolutely rediculous, but it does seem to put the cart before the horse to some degree. However, I have been on a 20 rep squat program for several months and I would say this type of work is predominantly geared towards bodybuilding and not strength. Not that you can't get stronger, you can, but it shouldn't translate well to max effort work. I still did a ME test and I was maybe off of my all time max on squats by less than 5%, and I actually stopped because I was expecting to be more like 15% off. So I shocked myself, was further along than I thought I might be and just called it good for the day since it was more of a benchmark than a hard and fast ME test. My legs grew a good deal through the 20 rep squat process, so I'll say that I can fathom how this would work.

I'm back into true 1RM testing for the next couple months and we will see where I'm at then. I've always been a stout believer that it would be easier for a person geared towards strength to knock out higher reps at a lower intensity than it would be for a person geared towards higher reps to translate that to a max effort.

For example I would expect someone who benches 225lbs for a single to easily knock off ten reps at 135, but someone who trains for ten reps at 135 to not necessarily be hitting that 225 max. But now with my 20 rep squat experience I'm not sure that is wholly true.