Favorite Mass Builder

[the_alcatraz]

Ahmmm everyone who wants to do a standing military presses starting with the weight on the ground has to do the clean at least on the first rep. The fact that most bodybuilders don't do it has more to do with their background and the reason that bodybuilders are bigger it's all because rep ranges, diet and steroids. So clean and press is great for overall strength and mass, it should be a weightlifting staple.

It does not really fit within the bodybuilding scope, because of several reasons like proper form, availability of space within the gym, time constraints, possibility of injury, etc..

 

[SaiBoT]

It does not really fit within the bodybuilding scope, because of several reasons like proper form, availability of space within the gym, time constraints, possibility of injury, etc..

If you are able to do it clean and press is a great mass builder, but most of the "regular gyms" don't offer the conditions to do it and learn it properly. But then again, most people who does this exercise are strongman and they are known for a huge amounts of functional muscle mass.

 

[the_alcatraz]

If you are able to do it clean and press is a great mass builder, but most of the "regular gyms" don't offer the conditions to do it and learn it properly. But then again, most people who does this exercise are strongman and they are known for a huge amounts of functional muscle mass.

I do the "push-press" which is similar in some ways, withuot the jerk movement.

 

[SaiBoT]

I like that one also and Bradford presses.

 

[Unit 2005]

Squats, Deads, Bench.

 

[FunFun]

If you are able to do it clean and press is a great mass builder, but most of the "regular gyms" don't offer the conditions to do it and learn it properly. But then again, most people who does this exercise are strongman and they are known for a huge amounts of functional muscle mass.

Even if you do find a gym with the area to do these, it can be dangerous (hard on the wrists) to use a poor quality olympic bar. Most bars found in bodybuilding gyms don't spin smoothly enough for cleans. You really need a high quality olympic lifting bar for these type of movements.

 

[SaiBoT]

Even if you do find a gym with the area to do these, it can be dangerous (hard on the wrists) to use a poor quality olympic bar. Most bars found in bodybuilding gyms don't spin smoothly enough for cleans. You really need a high quality olympic lifting bar for these type of movements.

That's true! Once a week I have the chance to workout at a gym that has this quality olys, strongman logs, Tires, farmer walk devices, sleds. Sometimes I go for a spin there.

 

[FunFun]

That's true! Once a week I have the chance to workout at a gym that has this quality olys, strongman logs, Tires, farmer walk devices, sleds. Sometimes I go for a spin there.

It's an amazing experience going from a lousy, clunky bar to a quality olympic bar if you're doing cleans. You could equate it to getting out of a Volkswagen to take a Porsche for a spin.

 

[musketeer]

ummm...yes

I believe the mass builders are those exercises that you can lift extraordinary weights when doing them, and they incorporate a compound movement.

They are known to be squats, deads, bench.

Most bodybuilders don't even do the snatch and the other powerlifters' exercises because they don't have a powerlifting background.

POWERLIFTERS squat, bench, dead, in that order

WEIGHTLIFTERS snatch, clean and jerk, in that order

I'm talking about the clean and press or if you like the clean and push press, which does not require you to be a weightlifter or a powerlifter.

It is a compound move and it is an exercise that allows you to use a great amount of weight in a way that will effect everything.

Leg press lets you move a metric ton in some gyms but you won't see anyone saying it's great on here.

 

[ceo]

Leg press is great.