12/26/2025
Here at The Strength Athlete, we LOVE paused work and chances are it’s somewhere in your program.
It’s useful for nearly every powerlifter because it’s:
* Self Limiting- this means that even at RPE 10, if you’re doing the movement correctly, you won’t be able to load your max on its competition counter part. With fatigue management being a cornerstone of programming, this is a great way to build it into the program even in the case of overshoots.
* Specific- In fact, it’s about as specific as you can get without doing the competition movement itself.
* A great opportunity to slow things down and focus on technique fixes and technique repeatability
