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A little backstory... lately for squats I've been doing high bar somewhere around 6x6 to bust my quads up. Most weight Ive done for them was 335 for the 6 sets of 6. Couple days later I'll do high bar paused, with the weight obviously lower. This last Monday I just felt like doing a heavy comp squat. I hit a 500 in sleeves then moved into high bar paused to get some volume in. After the heavy squats, the high bar paused felt so light I was doing more weight than I would before without the pause. Something like 405*6 with a 3 second pause. This is way way wayyy more than I thought I could do and it felt easy as shit. If I were to just work up to the high bar as my main lift that shit wouldn't have happened. Obviously the heavy single worked like some kind of primer making the working sets more manageable and performing a truck load more work. Has anyone experienced this? I wonder if doing this every time would yield any negative aspects?