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i didnt watch those videos but i dont think an exaggerated pause is by any means necessary for doing a pause squat. The notable thing is that you slow down the eccentric intentionally and for a brief moment reach close to zero speed then continue the rep - nb, this is a continuation of the eccentric bc that kick you see at the bottom is a downwards motion before the reversal occurs. The key thing to keep in mind is that the pause itself happens before the eccentric completes

lol @ "close to zero speed." what you are describing is a normal controlled squat. in your videos you are clearly still using the stretch-shortening cycle and any slowing on the eccentric is just slowing, not a pause. and that's fine! they're good squats! but calling them paused squats is flat-out inaccurate. at the end of the day it doesn't matter, it's just irritating. fwiw i intentionally posted videos with a short pause rather than an exaggerated pause.

like, the other day donald trump jr posted a video of himself half-squatting 300 pounds and claiming it as a squat PR. 300 pounds is a solid amount of weight for a middle-aged man to have on his back. good for him! but what he does with it is not a squat even if he says it is, or he meant to do one.

oh yeah that's making me want to get back on the gymnastics train. need to get a pull up bar, too.

i for one am not shocked that your body was like "DELOAD" after consecutive first-ever 100+ mile weeks.

cold seems to have turned into an ear infection. cool cool cool.

damn, now that is what i want to look like at 50. def need to get a bit of lifting back in the program.

- run 8 km in 41:00, cool down jog/walk 500m (treadmill)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/06/16/a-woman-went-to-check-her-corn-and-was-swallowed-by-a-python/?utm_term=.8e3aeb41f40f&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

 

yeah that's not a bad plan.