Why is the power clean even in the starting strength program? Doesn't seem like a beginner exercise. Does anyone who does starting strength even do it?
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Why is the power clean even in the starting strength program? Doesn't seem like a beginner exercise.
it's a beginner exercise if you start with like no weight lol
It has nothing to do with the amount of weight. Power cleans are a skilled athletic move (not as much as a full C&J or a snatch, but still). Just throwing a barbell up to your clavicle is a recipe for uncoordinated disaster.
>a skilled athletic move
Which is why it's not good for beginners
They teach 85iq 16 year olds to do it in sports programmes, you don't need to be some sort of weightlifting guru to do a fricking power clean
It helps you mentally with converting latent strength to power.
Plus it's one of the more fun movements when you get good at them without the time commitment of snatches
Because SS is a high school offseason american football programme and power cleans are a favourite lift of gridiron coaches
The power clean is one of if not the best exercise you can do.
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Because SS was originally designed to rapidly get people with no training prepared for football. Power exercises like cleans are essential for that as it develops explosiveness
And it is done under the supervision of a coach. If you have no coach then a kettlebell clean would be safer on the shoulder, but harder to progressively overload. I guess you could with a pair of adjustable bells.
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I’ve never done a power clean and probably never will. Just seems like a bad idea CrossFit-tier move and I’ve never been interested in trying it. Maybe I’m missing out but I don’t care.
>Does anyone who does starting strength even do it?
I did and it became my favorite lift when I got the form right.
Power cleans are more functional than deadlifts.
Idk why everyone is acting like this is some kind of sorcery. It's literally just picking a barbell up. I found IST 15 years ago, started with SS and "taught" myself proper form through reading. It got me into great shape and I was a pt stud when I enlisted in the marine corps. Powercleans are a great exercise
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Do your fricking power cleans
Because SS was based on Bill Starr's programming in The Strongest Shall Survive (which I'll call SSS)
In that program the three main lifts were Squat / Bench / Power Clean
The program was primarily targeted at youth american football players, and the clean was considered a very useful exercise for them
In SSS Starr talks about maxing your gains with Power Cleans, then progressing to High Pulls ("Power Pulls") for more weight, then Power Shrugs from blocks, and then comes pic related.
I’m doing 3x12 now including deadlifts and while I’ve been taking my time and slowly increasing weight, I’m only doing 240 now, I do worry about fricking my back up. 12 reps feels much more tiring and working the muscles more than 5 reps but I’m concerned that as I get fatigued I’ll zone out and suffer from form breakdown and frick my back up.
I just want to look good and be a bit stronger so I’m getting more into a bodybuilder routine. Deadlifts are a habit at this point and I do wonder if I should just put that energy and fatigue into different exercises that will have more impact.
12 is too many reps for deads or cleans. 5 is fine for deads, 3 is good for cleans, these exercises are better for pushing weight up rather than doing so many reps you deal with fatigue as that's when you're more likely to break down in technique
I program power exercises precisely for the development of maximal output under varying loads - it's good cross training, anyways.
What does this do? It seems very dangerous jerking heavy weight like that.
Clean and press is FUN
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Everything is a beginner exercise until you practice it
How else do you get you weight into position for OHP?
You are allowed to use a squat rack for OHP once you hit 1pl8 for working reps.
I feel like once you can OHP 1 plate for reps it's almost trivial to clean that weight into position.
I use a squat rack to focus on the OHP not lifting the weight beforehand. I lift in an empty gym so it isn’t a problem.
Getting power cleans to a decent level is pretty easy, just a few weeks of work with the bar and then a few weeks with light weight. It's super beginner friendly as long as you're not moronic.
Perfecting the movement can take more than a year but that's something else entirely.
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