I'd like to challenge you to make a post that does not refer to yourself.
Pause squats are quite useful -- after 5 pounds a workout stops working. The guy that went from 300s to 700s did not need pause squats to do this. He just used them to do it.
Can't beat Coach Rippetoe's advice to attend a seminar and get a coach.
That said, I just watched a video on a lifter's channel that I won't mention--he credited the pause squat in getting him from the 300s to the 700s.
The usefulness of the assistance exercise, he contends, was the focus on maintaining tightness. His pause squat entailed a controlled descent, next the stretch reflex from below-parallel depth, then the pause before driving it up.
Similar pause squats, for post-novices, are considered to be useful assistance exercises (Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training (3d ed.), p. 237-239).
Given your 390+ squat double, it's probably not to early to consider pause squats. Maintaining tightness is the only way any pause squat is going to work, and tightness is critical to the squat. In my view, the pause squat might be a confidence builder as well.
I'd like to challenge you to make a post that does not refer to yourself.
Pause squats are quite useful -- after 5 pounds a workout stops working. The guy that went from 300s to 700s did not need pause squats to do this. He just used them to do it.
Rather than delete you, I'm just encouraging you to adopt a different perspective.
Thanks. Some good advice here regarding pin squats and pause squats...
Mark you seem to disagree that the man who took his squat from 300-700 due to pause squats, was due to his exercise selection. However isn't it true that adding an assistance exercise can make the difference, for better or worse, to gains.
Also isn't it true that gifted athletes often do train instinctively in the most efficient manner, just as a great painter or artist would often practice instinctively in the best way which solicits results? I know you might say that athletes don't even do full rep squats for example, but we're talking about a great squatter, who got results in his squat not in spite of his training but in accord with it.
Yes, but's far more true that adding 5 pounds to the bar every time it's possible works better.
This is not true. Very few gifted athletes are under the influence of intelligent coaches.Also isn't it true that gifted athletes often do train instinctively in the most efficient manner, just as a great painter or artist would often practice instinctively in the best way which solicits results? I know you might say that athletes don't even do full rep squats for example, but we're talking about a great squatter, who got results in his squat not in spite of his training but in accord with it.