It doesn’t matter too much; the point is to be recovered but not to wait too long.

If it’s a single at 80%, it won’t take long to recover and you might be ready to go again in a minute or two.

I like Dan John’s answer: “How many seconds do you rest after a max deadlift? In my experience, three weeks.”

People forget that powerlifting is sports-specific training, not general training! You are probably much better ’rounded’ in your training and can therefore exert strength in many different ways, from different angles etc.

It’s a more trivial example but whenever blokes find out I do lifting, they always want to have a go at arm wrestling me. Like that has anything to do with lifting! Anyway I am rubbish at arm wrestling.

I have found even though i dont do a lot of barbell squats and deads (i do them but they are not the main focus), but do a lot bodyweight and odd object lifting more often for higher reps, circuits and AMRAP style, never to failure, i seem to be a lot stronger than my friends and colleagues who train either bodybuilding style or powerlifting. Certainly when we do clinch work etc on the mats and any sort of partner lifts etc.

They would just beat me on a powerlift for example but naything else i can normally own them lol.

The only diference i see is i am a lot older than them maybe 20 years in some cases, but a similar weight maybe the years of constant training counts for something.