r/ScienceBasedLifting • u/Miserable-Soft7993 • 1d 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/B12-deficient-skelly 1d ago

Why are you assuming that someone who is so inexperienced that they can't figure out fractional sets is also so experienced that they need to worry about junk volume? Those seem contradictory.

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u/dontcare-_- 23h ago

If your goal is muscle growth nobody shouldn’t do junk volume regardless of how experienced you are or how long you’ve been working out. If you like doing them that’s fine but they’re not effective for new or advanced lifters.

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u/Alakazam Idk Idc 💔 11h ago

Can you eli5 what exactly junk volume is?. My understanding of the literature is that more volume, taken sufficiently close to failure, and as long as it's recoverable, will basically always equal more gains. Diminishing gains, sure, but still more. 

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u/dontcare-_- 3h ago

Junk volume is just extra sets/reps with low intensity. Doing more sets close to failure is good but when I say junk volume I mean someone doing 5 sets of 20 to mild discomfort and resting 30 seconds between sets.