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Washchechterwiener
How do I increase weight on my power cleans? I just put them in my program recently and started to work on my form and not bending my arms while cleaning. Nonetheless I feel like my Cleans are weak compared to my Deadlifts. Can you just increase the load by a certain amount of kgs per week? I couldn't find the answer in the book. I really enjoy doing those and wanna get stronger but i noticed they don't work like the other movements - they got ridiculously heavy just by increasing 2kgs.
Mark Rippetoe
Which book could you not find the answer in?
Practical Programming. Tthere was an example by a former D1 student who executed the program with no problems and he increased the load by 5 lbs per workout, where he power cleaned. Well, unfortunately I can't do that and my power clean is not remarkable by any means - I power clean 70kgs for 5x3 but couldn't increase the load the next workout for a decent amount of time now. My deadlift is still going up every time I deadlift though. Would you switch to 5x2? What would you do sir?
Use your brain: take smaller jumps.
Bbinck1
So after a few injuries and now dealing with a torn meniscus from playing basketball with a couple of 12 year olds I have become more aware that at nearly 50, I probably should be a little smarter. I currently deadlift once a week and do a set of 5 with 350-370. This is not particularly hard for me but it is certainly not a cake walk. I weigh approx 215 so it is not a stellar lift by any means. However I keep hearing about people tearing a bicep tendon doing alternating grip so I want to switch to hook grip. However I find that after a week of trying I can’t do 345 more than once. I don’t want to use straps and would rather just lower the weight. My question is this. Is this reasonable? If I drop the weight to like 315, is it likely I can continue to make progress or are you always stronger with an alternate grip. I watched your 500lb deadlift on YouTube and thought you were using an alternate grip but I could be wrong. What do you personally use on a day to day basis and is this injury really that common that as an older guy I should worry about it.
This is ridiculous. It is not reasonable to be worried about a bicep tendon avulsion with a light weight you have done once a week for god knows how long. If you want to lower the weights, go ahead, but don't blame the potential for an uncommon injury you will never experience.
No I don’t want to lower the weight, but I have never used anything but mixed grip, and hook just feels wrong. What I may do is mess with hook grip for another week and see if I can get close to my working weight using it. I was under the impression it is a more common injury than I guess it is.
bjvinson
It took me a few months to get used to the hook grip. I don’t think a week is enough time. Use chalk, make sure that you are using your ring finger and pinky to hold the bar - not just your thumb and use the thumb grip on all of your warm ups too.
I found it to be very painful at first but don’t notice it now.
Nikola Blagojevic
I just switched to hook grip on the deadlift.
I read the book and watched a ton of videos on how to do it. I used hook grip on my deadlift warm ups for two weeks and then tried it for the work set. Last week I hook gripped 400 for 4 reps and switched to mixed to pull the last rep. This morning I pulled 405x5 hook grip, and it felt fine. I'm double overhand gripping my warmups to save my thumbs for the work set.
It's worth it. My thumbs are a little beat up, but these are the benefits I've found:
Changing Your Body and Changing Your Perspective –JD Shipley
The Deadlift in 5 Steps –Mark Rippetoe
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