I’ve never found them to be awesome, but I think I want to run two accessory movements on my second pulling day; beltless variation and paused deadlifts.
The thing I find them most useful for is practicing leg drive, and pulling the slack out.
The idea that doing a longer range of motion makes the shorter range stronger flies in the face of ‘strength as a skill’ - and I never bought into it. I had one rep of my triples our of position and that tugged on something the wrong way around left S.I., but just tightened form moving forward.
Having said all of that, I may just move to paused deads exclusively and do some beltless after belted. Am certainly encouraged that beltless deficit was basically on pace with belted conventional.
Anyway, not sure what to do for squats tomorrow as paused LBBS is not making the knee happy. Perhaps I’ll try front squats again and keep the knee travel limited if I can.