Unusual experience while doing Power Clean

[Rama]

Mark,

Today is my first day in power clean. I did them with 20 kg weight. I elevated the bar to usual hight from the ground by placing few weights below the barbell.

I took a deep breath through mouth before pulling the weight from the ground and hold my breath all through the repetition, that is I took the breath again only after placing the weights back on the ground.

I did 1 repetition per 1 set so that I could practice the form and technique as the way you showed in your videos.

Today I might have done about 25 reps. For 3 reps, I had this unusual experience. I don't know how to explain this.

I felt something like dizzy, I don't know if that was dizzy as the bar was still in my hands and it did not fell down. I didn't feel fainted or loss of energy. My vision was blurred for few seconds(4 or 5). I didn't feel any kind of pain or any such thing. This experience triggered when I jumped from the jumping position straight up into the air and exactly at that moment when I hit back the floor with my feet where I felt this.

Is this normal? Or am I causing any trouble to my body?

Power clean felt really good and I feel a lot flexible with my body after doing it. I wanted to do few more repetitions but I was a little scared due to this unusual experience that I encountered.

Please guide me.

[Mark Rippetoe]

The book is your guide. Why do you not just read? Why must you post this shit when you are determined to do your own version of the program anyway?

[Will Morris]

I get dizzy everytime I do a heavy power snatch.....it has probably happened 100 times. Maybe I have an aneurysm that just refuses to pop.

[bma_mat]

When I first did SS, I once fucked up by forgetting to bring my little book that I kept track of how much I was power cleaning.

My last work set had been at 155 pounds. Well, I didn't remember what the weight was, and put up 175 pounds since I didn't have my book after warming up. On the 3rd rep, I got dizzy and fell backwards. Hahaha, looked like an idiot to the observers I'm sure.

[Rama]

What do you mean my own version? I am following your Power Clean video.

[Rama]

More over I just started reading the book and I haven't come across anything so far that dealt with the experience that I am facing.

[Hercp]

If you protected your carotid artery by keeping elbows and shoulders up so that the bar does not rest on your throat I guess you wouldn't feel dizzy. The weight on the bar doesn't matter (well, actually when the bar is heavy your technique deteriorates, but you get the point).

[Corrie]

More over I just started reading the book and I haven't come across anything so far that dealt with the experience that I am facing.

Try the search function on this forum. Diziness during power cleans has been talked about ad nauseum.