Originally Posted by
anticausal
Thanks coach. The tricep rope cue is interesting, and I'm excited to try it. It's a more active cue than I was using, which was trying not to squeeze the bar, relying on the hook grip, and imagining my arms as passive rods.
What you describe as clean pulls is what I was trying to describe. I've been doing that, but it hasn't helped. What happens is after doing a bunch of those, I go to the opposite extreme and end up bending my elbows too late and I can't even rack. Hopefully with the tricep rope cue and aiming higher up on the thigh, I'll get rid of that problem.
And you're right, I probably will need another coaching session at some point. I saw Tom a couple months ago, but we mainly focused on the other lifts and I was doing snatches at the time because I thought I was incapable of racking a clean. He definitely got me to rack the cleans, and I think he almost got me to do 1 or 2 reps without bent elbows, but unfortunately I forget how it felt and haven't been able to reproduce it.