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For the exercise itself I find that it's not the exhaustion, but the mental effort it takes to really push hard sort of resets my mental processes - I train powerlifting, so those 30 seconds where I'm going "this bar is going to kill me if I don't keep going" really changes my mental affect once I get out from under the bar.

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Yes, what I'm describing would be like powerlifting on a couple hours of sleep, daily. That kind of emotional / depressive outcome, where one has not attended to their exhaustion level and jumps in to perform, as opposed to powerlifting under more typical or optimal circumstances which I'm sure has some really positive mental outcomes.

Instead of the bar killing you, what if you flipped the script and went I'm going to dominate this bar

Use whatever you find effective at helping you get through those 5-6 reps, tbh.

And sometimes that's feeling like an invincible lifting machine, other times it's the fear or getting pinned under a quarter ton of iron in front of a whole gym.

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