Are cleans "all that"?

[Kathybird]

I've been reading. My core four are romanian deads, bench presses, squats and bent rows. I'll add some few compounds or simples every so often like overhead presses or calf raises.

I'm doing what y'all might consider "cutting", 5 reps, 3 or 4 sets of each, while I'm losing weight (slowly. But it's coming.)

Would it be worth it to incorporate cleans? Or replace one of those core exercises with cleans?

 

[Kenny Croxdale]

Cleans Recruit IIB/IIX Muscle Fiber

I've been reading. My core four are romanian deads, bench presses, squats and bent rows. I'll add some few compounds or simples every so often like overhead presses or calf raises.

I'm doing what y'all might consider "cutting", 5 reps, 3 or 4 sets of each, while I'm losing weight (slowly. But it's coming.)

Would it be worth it to incorporate cleans? Or replace one of those core exercises with cleans?

Katybird,

Cleans The Power Exercise

Cleans are an excellent movement. They are primarily a power movement.
Power = Strength X Speed.

Power output measurements of Olympic movements is the yard stick for power in sports.

Fast Twitch Muscle Fiber

Explosive power movements (such as the Clean and other Olympic movements) elicit the IIB/IIX muscle fiber.

In most traditional strength movements, the IIB/IIX are rarely trained.

Cleans/Olympic Movments

That is why Cleans/Olympic movements are one of the best exercises you can preform.

Substitution

Replace Romanian Deadlifts with Cleans.

Kenny Croxdale

 

[VolcomX311]

I've been reading. My core four are romanian deads, bench presses, squats and bent rows. I'll add some few compounds or simples every so often like overhead presses or calf raises.

I'm doing what y'all might consider "cutting", 5 reps, 3 or 4 sets of each, while I'm losing weight (slowly. But it's coming.)

Would it be worth it to incorporate cleans? Or replace one of those core exercises with cleans?

kenny provided some good information, but I don't know if I'd replace anything with cleans, why not just add it? I get that you have limited energy, but what you pull on cleans will be hundreds of pounds less then what you dead lift, also, most people don't perform cleans optimally. If you're not catching the bar down in the full front squat, you're not getting the most from the core activation and replacing the deads with a less then optimal cleans form won't serve you well.

Being that you're cutting and cleans are a velocity based movement, it would serve your cause well, because high velocity movements burn more calories and have a very beneficial effect on the metabolism.