Cleans check 66kg

[M-Love]

Hey,

can someone help me with my Cleans technique?
Currently working on getting arms more straight but on camera it looks like I do Curls.
Sorry for the bad camera look, I will work on a better one next time, but can someone help me?


Cleans Check 66kg side view - YouTube

Cleans check 66kg front view - YouTube

[gallon_of_cheese_a_day]

Yeah, you need to stop bending your arms before the jump, rotating the arms internally and thinking about pressing the bar down can help with this. The leaning back in the catch is also quite ugly, you should be catching the bar aggressively in a quarter front squat.

[M-Love]

Okay thank you. I will reread the SS chapter.
Is my grip also to wide and my stance is okay?
Should I lower the weight and work back up?

[David Geiger]

Your stance is fine. Grip is fine. The weight here is very light for you. Think about jumping much harder (straight up), and not bending your arms until after you jump. So jump first, then aggressively rotate your elbows to the catch position. When you jump, your hips, knees and ankles should all achieve full extension.

[M-Love]

Okay I will try it. Yesterday I watched some videos of Rip explaining the Clean. Today I will reread the SS Chapter.
Should I stay on that weight?
And can adding the Hookgrip also help me a bit?

[David Geiger]

Adding a hook grip can help with racking the bar, which is not your main issue. Adding it wont hurt anything though. I would add weight, because once you do a proper jump, instead of doing an arm pull, this weight will be very light. But as gallon of cheese and I noted, you need to focus on eliminating your arm pull. In your warm ups, try a few reps where you just jump straight up with straight arms; do not rack the bar, just jump and focus on keeping straight arms.

[M-Love]

Today I tried it. I did a lot of sets at warmup and go up to 60kg and then I can't clean it because of fatigue. I filmed myself with the bar at the jump position then with 30kg und last with 50kg. (40kg not filmed and 60kg where to hard after all the many sets)

Cleans Check Bar / 30kg / 50kg - YouTube

What do you mean?

[Praetorian]

You did a much better job in this most recent set of keeping the bar close and feeling the power position (mid-thigh) before starting the second pull. It looks like warm-ups from the hang position helped you a lot, I would keep doing these for a while. No early arm pull that I can see on this set.

From here focus on jumping hard and stabbing your feet out on the landing. After you've got that down, fast elbows, chest up on the catch (can do a front squat after each clean to enforce proper rack position), and smoother transition from first pull to second pull (you're almost pausing at mid-thigh).

Throw some weight on the bar.

[M-Love]

Okay thank you. I will try it next time.

Or what should I do? Currently I'm running TM in the original PPST Version. So Cleans only on day 1 of the week. Should I add more? (Day 2 is with Chins and the last day is with Deadlift)

[Praetorian]

Okay thank you. I will try it next time.

Or what should I do? Currently I'm running TM in the original PPST Version. So Cleans only on day 1 of the week. Should I add more? (Day 2 is with Chins and the last day is with Deadlift)

What was your last deadlift work set?