Jim uses them, George Leeman uses them, and Brian Alsruhe uses them. With all of that being said, I know there is a case to be made for utilizing either lift in training. On high-rep sets, this means you get to practice breaking the floor while under fatigue (something that is useful for actually breaking a top single off the floor). They also serve as a good “setup” lift: namely, you get the chance to do something resembling a first rep every time you pull. On the other side of the coin, dead-stop reps are useful for providing an accurate representation of where your best single is at. This also applies to working an area harder than it would normally be worked with dead-stop pulls (for example, more time under tension for the hamstrings, glutes, and lower back during obnoxiously high-rep sets - which would theoretically strengthen the Squat and certain portions of the Deadlift). From what I’ve read, touch-and-go pulls are useful for volume accumulation and for “overtaxing” the body: namely, doing more reps than you could if you resettled slightly before each rep. Yes, I know this debate is completely hashed out and I’m sorry.
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