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To me, he is a great example of no show and all go. Some are just and many that is, all show, he looks weaker than one that is all show.

Pete Rubish is not rubbish!
 

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To me, he is a great example of no show and all go. Some are just and many that is, all show, he looks weaker than one that is all show.

Pete Rubish is not rubbish!
Loved his first vids in his basement , his intensity level was through the fucking roof.
 
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Best advice I've revieved on the pause deadlift was from Josh Bryant at an in person seminar about 6 years ago. "Pause it on the way down or don't pause it at all."
 

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Best advice I've revieved on the pause deadlift was from Josh Bryant at an in person seminar about 6 years ago. "Pause it on the way down or don't pause it at all."
If you are doing reps I can see this, but a heavy single it makes no sense to me.
 

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Best advice I've revieved on the pause deadlift was from Josh Bryant at an in person seminar about 6 years ago. "Pause it on the way down or don't pause it at all."
Actually I take that back, not even for reps pausing going down makes any sense, maybe you heard something wrong.



 
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I thought it sounded pretty wacky too when I heard it. The explanation was pausing on the way up can cause bad motor patterns, which actually makes sense. Not sure what pausing on the way down really does other than adding in some iso work in a weird and possibly dangerous spot. I just don't pause deadlifts, that may have been the moral of that story,lol.
 

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Well shit I've always paused on the way up ... i'll be damned.

I sort of figured it like a non rack pull for working on a sticking point.

Pause anywhere from just off the floor to just below my knees , like a grinder simulator so to speak.
 

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I worked with Pete when I was doing PL, and he had me doing a lot of pauses on the way up and keeping the lift quiet so either a controlled descent or a short pause on the way down before putting the barbell down. Got very explosive off the floor that way, especially submaximal weights for volume got very fast just from how much snap it got off engaging the lift.
If you like pulling with intensity and speed it sure shows when you get to just ripping some conventional deadlifts
 

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Sheiko was a fan of multiple pauses when performing squats and his guys could put up some insane numbers. I do like pausing for squats. I'm not a bit fan of paused deads but have used them in the past.
When Chad Wesley Smith put out Juggernaut it had me doing pauses and tempo squats , brutality at its finest.
 

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