Power Snatches

[slowjoe]

It would be better to do some of each, so that the benefits of lighter weigh/more power and heavier weight/still lots of power could be incorporated into your program.

Extending that logic seems to suggest that there is a theoritical benefit in performing full squat cleans at heavier weights than the power-cleans, and indeed, in clean pulls at heavier weights than the squat cleans. Am I correct?

[Mark Rippetoe]

How far do you pull the bar in a full clean? Shorter ROM than a PC, right? Hi-pulls too. This is necessary for an Olympic lifter, but we use the power clean here for general strength training purposes.

[willhu12]

It would be better to do some of each, so that the benefits of lighter weigh/more power and heavier weight/still lots of power could be incorporated into your program.

is it OK to do both Power Cleans and Power Snatches on SS? This is something that's been at the back of my mind for a while.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Sure.

[willhu12]

Sure.

how would you go about using them both? clean/snatch/clean/snatch/clean or do them on different days?

[Mark Rippetoe]

If you wanted to use them both, it would seem logical to alternate them on your power-X day. But I believe I have said before that I like cleans better for novices because they allow more weight to be handled.

[MAD9692]

any chance of you adding Power Snatches in SSBBT 3rd Edition?

[Mark Rippetoe]

There is a very good chance.

[Kirra]

any chance of you adding Power Snatches in SSBBT 3rd Edition?

There is a 3rd edition on the way?? I had no idea.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Odd. I e-mailed everybody.