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50 Post author: RomeoStevens 10 March 2014 03:37AM

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Comment author: kbaxter 12 March 2014 01:11:33AM 0 points [-]

Starting Strength includes power cleans, and they can count as an upper pull. Chin-ups are great to add too. If you're not comfortable doing power cleans, rows are a great alternative.

As for the rep scheme, I wouldn't worry about it. 4x4 isn't really much different from 3x5. It probably wouldn't hurt anything to do Starting Strength with 4x4 instead though, if you want to try it.