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My friends & I have been trying to learn how to Power Clean. We've consulted tutorials on Youtube and local instructors. However, being a very difficult compound movement, we cannot seem to master it. Particularly after the initial 'Deadlift' to slightly above the knees, from the explosive movement into the Front Squat gives us problems. Does anyone have any tips?

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My friends & I have been trying to learn how to Power Clean. We've consulted tutorials on Youtube and local instructors. However, being a very difficult compound movement, we cannot seem to master it. Particularly after the initial 'Deadlift' to slightly above the knees, from the explosive movement into the Front Squat gives us problems. Does anyone have any tips?

Varendra,

 

Unfortunately I am not well versed in powerlifting moves. Maybe Eric Impulse, Daniel Meyer, or some of the powerlifters on the forum can provide some advice for you.

 

John

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My friends & I have been trying to learn how to Power Clean. We've consulted tutorials on Youtube and local instructors. However, being a very difficult compound movement, we cannot seem to master it. Particularly after the initial 'Deadlift' to slightly above the knees, from the explosive movement into the Front Squat gives us problems. Does anyone have any tips?

It will be hard to offer advice without a video and even still, online technique coaching on compounds and olympic lifting is hard.

A general principle that people learning the movements often struggle with is that it is a power movement. This is not just a compound 'lift', power involves speed and explosiveness. You are literally trying to THROW the bar in a straight vertical line while manipulating YOUR BODY around the bar. You are not muscling it into position, you are LAUNCHING it and moving around it.

Don't take that to mean that you are ever to lose contact with the bar, but it's an important principle that people need to understand. It's also why it's incredibly important to start with just the bar or a dowel rod to practice technique - similar to my point in another thread about deadlifting, you will need to learn the difference between applying force to the bar as opposed to allowing the bar to apply mechanical resistance to you. If your technique is flawed, the 'explosive' nature of your movement will translate into forces acting on you instead of you applying forces to the bar.

Eric

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It will be hard to offer advice without a video and even still, online technique coaching on compounds and olympic lifting is hard.

A general principle that people learning the movements often struggle with is that it is a power movement. This is not just a compound 'lift', power involves speed and explosiveness. You are literally trying to THROW the bar in a straight vertical line while manipulating YOUR BODY around the bar. You are not muscling it into position, you are LAUNCHING it and moving around it.

Don't take that to mean that you are ever to lose contact with the bar, but it's an important principle that people need to understand. It's also why it's incredibly important to start with just the bar or a dowel rod to practice technique - similar to my point in another thread about deadlifting, you will need to learn the difference between applying force to the bar as opposed to allowing the bar to apply mechanical resistance to you. If your technique is flawed, the 'explosive' nature of your movement will translate into forces acting on you instead of you applying forces to the bar.

Eric

Very true Eric.. That is the main reason why I have no video for this yet. It's a very complex exercise that I have not practised much myself. I plan to make a video one day, but I need to study the exercise a bit more. My goal was to actually work with a power lifter for a series of videos on specific exercise. Would be really cool.

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