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Power Clean

A few pics of Olympic lifters




Pretty sure no one on here looks as good as them.

Absolutely positive no one on here lifts as much as them.
 
i really need to get down lower and "catch" the bar

Why not concentrate on being more explosive with the second phase of the lift instead; where your hips are thrusted forward to meet with the bar which is the queue for your traps to do their thing and come into play with a mighty shrug!

If you start concentrating on getting below the bar, it may affect your full pull extension.

Are you doing clean pulls and shrugs off the ground? That aught to improve your pulling power immensely.


Fadi.
 
I know! I was actually expecting him to be more explosive off the ground, though it was in the middle of the lift where it came up quick and he got under it.

In all the weightlifting I've seen, I've never seen anyone pull the bar off the ground slower than the Pocket Hercules himself. Yet the mighty Turk cleaned and jerked 10kg over triple bodyweight at the Soul Olympics when he clean & jerked 190kg at a bodyweight slightly below 60kg.




Fadi.
 
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Interesting that you highlight the heavy guys and not the leaner guys.

I like to be a little more positive than that, but each to their own. Maybe you couldnt find a pic of a lean weightlifter.
 
Holy Moly. I just watched a heap of Naim vids. He is a strong MOFO!!
 

The difference is with 10 weeks of dieting he could have beach body to envy, with a back a traps to block out the sun.

Could you snatch 207.5kg in 10 weeks?
 
[...] 'Olympic lifters' [...]

His lifts are most probably world class, but I'd prefer to not lift at all rather than to getting around with man boobs and a keg.
You should search a bit longer.

Ivan Stoisov,


Amanda Hubbard,

Body composition (how much fat you have) and muscular strength are different things. They influence but do not determine each-other. It's possible to have man boobs and a keg and be weak, or to be lean and "cut" and be very strong, or any mixture of these things.
 
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what he looks like probably does not matter to him, a gold medal and a place in history does.
Thats the thing, this is a BB/fitness forum, not a competition weightlifting forum, for me it's looks/size first, strength second but I understand that everyone is different although reading through the 'Why do you train thread' almost everyone lists looking better/size ahead of strength. Pretty much my point.
 
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meh, this threads about powercleans not what the people doing them look like.

anyway does anyone else have problems with the bar landing on their collarbone when they clean? i had a nice bruise their the other day that looked like a hickey, i got some shit at work about it and had to explain it to the girlfriend
 

David, why do you see that as a problem? It has to land somewhere! I don't know what's wrong with me this morning. I can't stop smiling or laughing (and giving stupid answers).


Fadi.
 
snap........


I choked on my water..

SO anyway i cant seem to get it in the right position do you hold it? or does it sit on your collar bone like a front squat? I try to do them but i end up in a reverse curl sort of situation with my arms and hurts my wrists.
 
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Found this interesting Power Clean technique explanation by Don McCauley, which I thought I'd share with you guys.
Don is a US Olympic Weightlifting coach, and is releasing a book + DVD this month - which looks promising.
Coach Don McCauley | Olympic Weight Training