Power Cleans

[houston911]

I just did these for the 1st time the other day. That shyt feels great. I did some lat pull downs afterwards and ive never felt that burn in my lats before

I know footballl players use the power clean, but what is it for, and are there any other exercises like this that work a lot of shyt (other than deadlifts)

[makavalli]

u got a diagram or picture of what it looks like?? and for lats pull ups got my back looking right and i only do about 15 a day

[khalid a.k.a Genocide]

Power cleans is an exercises geared for explosiveness, speed and core strength. Just like the power snatch, olympic Clean&jerk and the full snatch. However, pro athletes such as football players, track & field athletes only do power cleans and power snatch. Because those exercises help their activity/craft on the field and its much easier compared to the full snatch and the clean&Jerk. The full snatch and oly clean&jerk require the athlete to hold a full ATG(ass to ground)squat position for a split second, hence more difficult.

For my back, I developed my back doing mostly barbell bent over rows, deadlift, lat pull down, seated cable rows, V-handle front pulldowns, one arm DB bent rows, DB pullovers(very good to widen your torso, some people do it on chest day). I never did much of pull ups, only as of late I've been incorporating into my back routine.

[makavalli]

Power cleans is an exercises geared for explosiveness, speed and core strength. Just like the power snatch, olympic Clean&jerk and the full snatch. However, pro athletes such as football players, track & field athletes only do power cleans and power snatch. Because those exercises help their activity/craft on the field and its much easier compared to the full snatch and the clean&Jerk. The full snatch and oly clean&jerk require the athlete to hold a full ATG(ass to ground)squat position for a split second, hence more difficult.

For my back, I developed my back doing mostly barbell bent over rows, deadlift, lat pull down, one arm DB bent rows, DB pullovers(very good to widen your torso, some people do it on chest day). I never did much of pull ups, only as of late that I've been incorporating into my back routine.


khalid do you find pull ups a lil more difficult than your usually routine considering your a bigger build??? im short about 5'8,180 and i can do about 15 pullups a day but im trying to lose weight so im guessing the more weight i lose i can do more cause of less weight

[khalid a.k.a Genocide]

khalid do you find pull ups a lil more difficult than your usually routine considering your a bigger build???

Yeah a little bit. on my back day I do 3 sets, 5 to 6 reps on each set, for pullups. And I don't do pull ups on every back session, just sometimes to add variety. Im slowly getting better at it though.

[whoa4]

I suck at cleans, but thats because I don't do them as much. I do another variety though, where I start in the clean position, but instead of cleaning it I do an upright row instead. It's easier, mainly on the wrist. If I play football, i'll hav eto get better at it though.

[Big H]

Cleans are really underrated. I've been doing them since high school and I can attribute most of my strength gains to them. I never really liked Deads so I would do cleans instead when I wanted to have a lil fun and get my heart pumping.

Try Power Cleans and Hang Cleans, also if your feeling ballsy try combining the clean with an overhead press at the end.... now thats a workout.

Your Bench will go up, Squat will go up, its an overrall strength builder and valuable asset to any training program.

Don't worry about the weight right now, just focus on perfecting your form on every rep. Your gonna want to explode up with the weight after you curl it up. Its a violent movement that NEEDS intensity.

[houston911]

ppreciate the input folks

i think ima start doing this every back or shoulder day