Thanks for your response Romeo. I have a few responses and a couple questions I hope you'd answer.

I'm recommending trying to follow this curve optimally, stepping down from 4x10, to 4x8, 4x6, then 4x4 which is going to be solidly in the 80-85% range.

That makes sense. I think I must not be understanding the timescale on which your progression is supposed to take place. It sounded like you were recommending starting at 10 each time and then as soon as you couldn't do 10, changing it to 8, then when you fail on 8, go to 6, then when you fail on 6, go to 4. For completely untrained individuals, it seems like they would get some benefit from staying around 6 for a bit longer, but that might be my personal experience biasing me. Anecdotally, I've gotten much more mileage out of working in the 5 rep range than in 4 and I'm fairly well trained. I seem to plateau much more often when I train at 4 reps and have to drop weight and increase my reps for a few sessions to break it whereas it's more of a smooth curve when I train at 5.

You're right that I neglected to mention how to increase weights session to session, I'll fix that.

Great! That will be helpful and make it more actionable.

If you've never done squats/cleans in a shoe with a proper heel you should really try it and see the huge difference. This doesn't typically matter for powerlifters since they low bar their squats, but low bar squats use the back which is what I am avoiding by recommending highbar squats.

I never realized there was a difference in optimal shoe between high-bar and low-bar squat. I know shoes can be helpful for cleans and snatches. I've always squatted low-bar and I don't do much olympic lifting. I've never had official lifting shoes, though I lifted in puma speedcats for a long time. Would official lifting shoes be better? What benefit would you say you get? I feel completely stable barefoot and don't have any inward knee movement when I squat barefoot, but that could be because I've just built up stabilizers after doing it for a long time. I would expect someone who has always used lifting shoes would feel unstable if they switched without an adjustment period.

Americans get sufficient protein to build muscle. No benefit has been recorded above .64g/lb bodyweight, and that's a max, it's not like you get no benefits below that. Meal timing likewise doesn't seem to have much of an effect. The exception is that leucine before bed does seem to make a difference.

All very true. I wasn't advocating a large amount of protein, just thinking you should mention it for people who might not get enough like vegetarians or people who just don't eat much meat. A 165lb person should still have about 100g of protein each day using the .64g/lb bodyweight measure which is actually not trivial for some people.

I really don't mean to nitpick, I think it's a great article overall. Just wanted to address a few things that ran counter to what I've learned. Thanks for putting this together.