Another option could be to do them in reverse. Get up on the step with both legs. Take your working leg, planted firmly on the step. Move your non-working leg off the step. Lower down till you *almost* touch the ground, come back up. Set foot down a sec to rest. Repeat.
Basically, instead of doing concentric then eccentric, you're doing eccentric then concentric. Your leg can't help you if it never touches down to.
Personally, I don't have any problem doing them cuz I purposfully squnch my buns and force myself up... stopping just a sec after liftoff if I think my lower leg helped at all, again removing any help because it's no longer on the ground and able to push off. Basically, what nutbar said. (yes, I did say this just to be able to use the phrase "squnch my buns")
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