I read this article from Glenn Pendlay on changing weights within a Olympic Weightlifter's workout:

 http://www.pendlay.com/Assigning-Weight-Changes-within-a-Workout_df_42.html

 I wonder what Powerlifters think about it.

Yeah, I've heard the same thing about Olympic Weightlifters, but Pendlay's reasoning with the Wave Loading was interesting.  Some day I may get into Olympic Weightlifting and try applying RTS principals to it.  I still need to do some more reading on Olympic Weightlifting programming though, because I still don't have a full grasp of how they employ variety without rotating exercises in and out.  I don't think the Russian model of rotating hundreds of exercises is necessary with Weightlifting.

Anyways, I've always been wanting to learn more about Sheiko, but I had trouble figuring it out from resources online.  I got the Eric Talmant DVD, so hopefully that'll give me some more ideas to work with in the future.

I've never seen wave loading described like Pendlay says but makes some sense. I really loved competing/training in Olympic lifting. I felt so much more explosive and powerful than I do now.  I used the basic "Bulgarian" model(which isn't really unique to them, but thats how its known on the interwebs).

 Work up to a training max, go at for a few attempts and back down for a couple sets.  It is easy to burn out real quick doing this, however, so you have to be very careful. I wish I had Mike's book then so I could map and program my stress levels better. I remember days of clean and jerking up to 300 or so @165 pounds then feeling like I couldn't do 225 pounds the next day, but beat myself up anyway instead of backing off. Not smart.

I also liked the muscular gains I got from doing Olympic lifting complexes vs. what I'm getting now with powerlifting. I don't know what it is, but I could pile on muslce quick with just snatches, cleans, and squats but now I can hardly gain with all the bench, squatting, deadlifting.  Weird.

Mike,

 Two things happened that made me make the switch from OL to PL:

 1. My knees absolutely said, "Uncle!". BUT, it wasn't from all that deep squatting, cleaning, and snatching. It came about after a training cycle emphasizing power cleans/snatches. That sudden "braking" in the quarter squat position with a load absolutely blew up my patellar tendons. I never could seem to recover.

2. Training became a chore. By this, I mean I used to drive 30 miles round trip to train. Not a big deal right? Well, when my knees got so bad I couldn't squat to a toliet without agony and I couldn't train properly...well, wasn't worth.

3. Last, but most important: my son was born. Other things took priority and spending all that time driving and training no longer appealed to me.  A gym to powerlift in was close and an acquaintence (now my training partner of 3 years) are less than 10 minutes away.

Understandable.  Have your knees recovered now?

I've thought about getting into OL before.  It seems like a cool sport.  While I was at the Air Force Academy, I interned with the S&C staff there.  I made sure to learn the OL's while I was there (at least to a cave-man level) "just in case".  I have to admit, dropping the weight is probably the best part!

Mike,

 It is a really cool sport.  Nothing more exciting than grinding out a limit clean, standing there almost blacking out, then punching it overhead for a PR. Its a rush!  The really neat thing is when you get "good" and you realize its really all about getting under the bar as fast as possible not pulling it higher like the old timer's taught the lift.

My knees still won't take any amount of power cleans/snatches. Maybe the full versions, but never the power versions ever again. Weird.