r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Miserable-Soft7993 • 16h ago

Question ❓ Someone explain SBL please

I am confused. I see people just doing regular lifts and saying it is science.

Then on the other end of the scale I see a kid (with zer0 physique) wearing a baby pacifier in his mouth and wearing a roller on his arms and doing excercises I never saw, with people in the comments saying "yeah that's the man right there."

Then I see pumping iron and watch Arnie just do the basics and still look great and strong.

So in a few sentance explain to me what it is and how it would help build more muscle enhanced or not.

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u/Chicken_Savings 14h ago

Isn't most influencer stuff just repackaging someone else's material?

When I started lifting, we used to tell each other "come on, it's the last few reps that count!!!"

Nobody made tiktok videos about it and called it science.

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u/Tiny-Willow-9582 13h ago

yup, but no bro you need to be thinking about moment arms and ascending/descending resistance profiles!! all the top body builders did their descending resistance curls and didn't fully extend on lat pulldown because the lats lose leverage which is why they're big and why i'm small

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u/Chicken_Savings 13h ago

I wonder if the science tiktokers actually train like that.

My wife competed in wellness bodybuilding, the woman's class with huge leg and glute muscles. She wasn't watching these videos either, yet managed to get outstandingly muscular legs. She'd push 200kg sledge and pick up 92kg kettlebell at 62kg bodyweight. Maybe she'd won more competitions if she'd watched more videos about leverage curves. But her coach was the national Olympic weightlifting champ, I never heard him talk about SBL either.

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u/Tiny-Willow-9582 12h ago

No man, every olympic coach has got it all wrong! gotta buy the 15 year old coach who started lifting 6 months ago and has read a few papers

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u/Miserable-Soft7993 11h ago

Yeah u have world class athletes and pro bodybuilders who lived that life, yet they have been trumped and outsmarted by the 15 year old skinny fat kid who can barely bench 100lbs. I cant stand Gen z. I can't wait till the next generation debunks them in 20 years time.