twotubman
12-27-2007, 03:59 PM
In the first edition of Starting Strength, you have this one passage:
As evidence that strength and power are related, George Hechter incorporated power cleans and clean high-pulls (the partial version of the clean, where the bar is shrugged hard but not racked on the shoulders) into his deadlift training, by warming up his deadlifts with the explosive movements up to about 60% of his max single deadlift, and then deadlifting on up to his work sets. His best deadlift of 825 lbs at a bodyweight of 242 is testimony to the effectiveness of this approach.
which I thought was mighty interesting. Where could I learn more about this particular regimen? Google doesn't turn up a whole lot about Hechter and I didn't see a source listed in the back of the book. Are there any old issues of, say, Powerlifting USA that would cover this?
Thanks for your time and thank you for making yourself available to answer all these questions.
As evidence that strength and power are related, George Hechter incorporated power cleans and clean high-pulls (the partial version of the clean, where the bar is shrugged hard but not racked on the shoulders) into his deadlift training, by warming up his deadlifts with the explosive movements up to about 60% of his max single deadlift, and then deadlifting on up to his work sets. His best deadlift of 825 lbs at a bodyweight of 242 is testimony to the effectiveness of this approach.
which I thought was mighty interesting. Where could I learn more about this particular regimen? Google doesn't turn up a whole lot about Hechter and I didn't see a source listed in the back of the book. Are there any old issues of, say, Powerlifting USA that would cover this?
Thanks for your time and thank you for making yourself available to answer all these questions.