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How do you incorporate high/low volume training in your work outs?
 
Is one better then the other?
 
What goals are set out for High volume training and low volume training?
 
 

Both have there place for sure in Powerlifting 
 
 low volume heavy weight training is what we use to recruite what we need for power and speed. However we also use high volume training on supporting lifts and to develop musclular endurance of the stabilizers.
          We generally do total weight lifted calculations in  setting up our workout. Examples below
 
1) Bench day total work completed = 28000lb in a short 45min to 1 hour session.
 
2) Shoulder day total work completed = 56000lb in a short 45 min to 1 hour session
 
3) Squat DL days typically end up around = 25000 to 30000 lb in short 45min to 1 hour session
 
4) Back work work completed = 86000lb 45 min to 1 hour session.
 
5) Speed for bench work completed = 22500lb in 45 min to 1 hour.
 
   If you notice the primary lift days are substantually less than the supplemental days these numbers are actually from last weeks training schedule. The high volume days as you may notice are also completed in a very short time we on these days limit our set rest to 10-15 seconds which compounds the burn and helps build muscular endurace.
    Goals as stated above are practical to our sport and can be applied to most systems with success
 
Thanks Butch

Putting your body through hell, thats why we do high volume at times a few months out from a meet.  Haveing your body adapt to a massive amount of training over and over again so your body will adapt to hard training, so your body will nhever get tired.  I know this might not be the reason why we do hard training, coach Pendlay knows the science behind it, but this is what I think.  If I can snatch 140kg for a set of five, then when I am in the back room at a meet and I walk up to hit 140kg for just one I am not scared, “only on”  I say, easy.  Its a mental thing to me.  High volume gets me in shape to keep training all day, so at a meet only doing three snatches and three clean and jers, easy.  there is nothing to it, becuasde I am use to spending all day in the gym training with big weights over and over again.  Plus I think high volume makes you stronger, or I know so becuase we did high volume work before Americans and I had as pr total and pr cj, I was very strong, if you ask me how does high volume make you strong, I would answer, “I dont know, you would need to ask my coach.” 
      In our program we do both, for two weeks straight we will only do max singles, then we will do tripples and sets of five in almost about everything, both ways of training are great, but I do think you need both to get strong, dont just choose one.  These are just my opinions, I would love coach pendlay to get on and explain the magic behind high volume training.