I have also read Max Weight as well, that's just the first one I found expressing the same sort of idea with a quick search, on the bright side if I the article was wrong or I remembered it wrong then I learned something new, but I'll try to find the article I saw.
Found the article I read, it was in 'Fighters Only' Magazine December 11 edition (South African issue 24)
Paul McVeigh writes: Post -Activation potentiation is the key here; for numerous reasons a muscle's explosive ability is enhanced when that muscle is forced to undergo a maximal or near-maximal contraction. This is also the reason you may have heard of 100m sprinters doing max-effort squats prior to a race.
Paul McVeigh as well as being a fighter is also a sports scientist, so anyway that's where I got my info
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