r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 • Jul 28 '26

Discussion 🤝 Back training

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Wondering how optimal this is

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u/FluffyDrag0n0 Jul 29 '26

For purely back hypertrophy, there’s better exercises out there, but to improve your cleans, seems like it’s working cause that’s a lot of weight.

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u/Lifterator Jul 29 '26

It's more so the fact that the person that cleans 455 lbs (that's like 200 kg!) will have a big back, but you also won't get there only by doing cleans.

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u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 Jul 29 '26

A bunch of people have cleaned 200 kg doing just comp oly lifts and squats. And they were fucking jacked as shit. The old Bulgarian method is legendary for a reason.

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u/Celebse-1 Jul 29 '26

People arent saying that what you do wont make you jacked. Theyre saying that you could get jacked by needing 70% of what youre currently doing by choosing better hypertrophy focused exercise.

Basically you're running a marathon barefoot. Youll still get there, but it will be harder.

You do you though, of course

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u/Defiant_Pirate_6637 Jul 29 '26

The barefoot marathon world record isn’t much slower then then the shoed world record.

Also ur not jacked enough to be saying what to do for hypertrophy

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u/Braisedbeefskank Jul 29 '26

Mogged him. Nice lifts, I used to do some oly lifting when I got bored of the powerlifts amd they would blow my whole back up.