Dead-stop squats that build raw power out of the hole.
Start every rep from a full stop. Don't bounce or use any rebound off the pins.
The Anderson squat starts every rep from a dead stop on the pins at your chosen depth, deleting the stretch reflex that normally bounces you out of the hole. With no rebound available, the quads have to generate all the force from zero, with the glutes joining to drive the hips through to standing. It earns its place as a raw power builder for exactly the position where squats fail, and as a brutally honest audit of whether your bottom position is actually strong or just springy.
Starting from a dead stop removes the elastic bounce, so the rep is pure muscular force from the worst position. If you are strong out of a dead stop, the same depth in a normal squat feels easy.
Set them at your sticking point or your normal squat depth, for most people that is around parallel. Lower pins make it harder and more specific to bottom-end strength, start higher and work down.
Expect noticeably less, losing the stretch reflex costs a meaningful chunk of your usual numbers. Treat it as its own lift with its own progression, and let the full settle between reps happen, rushing it back into touch-and-go defeats the purpose.
