Yet, special steps must be taken to teach the maneuver-increase flexibility of the wrist, include front squat into a program to help teach the “rack,” or separate rack flexibility exercises. The only non-athletic thing about the power clean IS the catch! This is biomechanically and physiologically useless for an athlete to help improve sports performance. Nothing about the catch (turning the bar over and landing it on the shoulder) translates to the field, pool, or court.
I certainly understand all this and have for nearly 35 years, but here are a few of my problems with the power clean:ġ. super heavyweight record holder and 20 Olympian) was also reported to be able to dunk a basketball at a bodyweight of 352 lb.
super heavyweight Olympian) could dunk a basketball at a bodyweight of around 374 lb. champion super heavyweight), who could do a vertical jump and reach of 39.3” (1 m) at a bodyweight of 303 lb. …Another lifter who could jump was Tom Stock (1978, 1979, and 1980 U.S. He said, “Let me try that again,” so he did and this time we measured 11’ (3.35 m)! Ken said he was sure he could go further, but the landing was hurting his knees since he weighed 335 lb. With a slight dip he jumped, and we measured 10’-6” (3.2 m). Ken said he was sure he could exceed that and told me to get a tape measure. (227 kg) was training with me in 1972, I told him that I had read that Paul Anderson (1956 Olympic Champion and considered the strongest man that ever lived) could do a standing long jump of 10’ (3 m). “When Ken Patera (the first American to clean and press and clean and jerk 500 lb. Jim Schmitz, in the article “ Jumping and Weightlifting” for IronMind, talks of world-class weightlifters and their jumping feats: Anecdotally, we’ve all heard the stories of those who power clean big weights and jump high as well. In addition, physiology and biomechanics can lead one to a safe hypothesis (there are very few focused studies) that, if an athlete can jump high, they most likely are fast in sprints shorter than 20 yards. Vertical jumping and the power clean have similar biomechanical characteristics. There is no shortage of papers on Olympic lifts and their relationship to vertical jumping. It’s easy to adopt the power clean as THE lift to do for athletes, considering that jumping high and running fast are important for athletic success. And it wasn’t until 10 years ago, after several re-reads of Garhammer’s research, that it hit me that the power clean might fall under the “this-is-what-we’ve-always-done” heading. Thomas Paine said, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right…” No place exemplifies this like athletics in particular, strength and conditioning. That said, and as I have said many times before, I don’t want to do what works… I want to do what works best! Over the years, I have questioned several philosophies and methods (as we all should), and have proven to myself through educational recourse that just because we have done something for a while, it doesn’t confirm that it is the best option.
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So, full disclosure, I love the lift and the physiological and biomechanical contributions it makes to the appropriate sports. As a former short-time competitive weightlifter and mentee of the likes of John Garhammer, Bob Takano, Bob Ward, Harvey Newton, and Al Vermeil, not only do I love the lift but some of the best coaches taught me the lift and the science! This includes the 1980 Garhammer paper I still believe is the foundational work on the lifts, “ Power production by Olympic weightlifters” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (MSSE). The power clean has been around for at least my 35-year coaching tenure and will continue far past it. The Power Clean and Clean High Pull in Athletics “Weightlifters” will refer to those athletes whose sport is only weightlifting. However, for this article, “athletic population” will refer to non-competitive weightlifters: those who weight lift to help them in their sport. Note that I’m not implying that Olympic-style weightlifters (who I refer to as weightlifters from here on out) are not athletic. I will provide some common sense and scientific support for my claim that might persuade some readers and, at the least, get folks to think a bit. Let’s get to it-I prefer the Clean High Pull to the Power Clean in the competitive, athletic population. To Catch or not to Catch, that is the question!
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