power rack and power clean replacement

[Dgallagher]

Greetings Mark.... I have all of your books and I am a big fan of your no bullshit style writing, along with Bill starr , paul kelso and Ken Leistner who tell it like it is instead of telling people what they want to hear , in short I have two questions

1. who is the manufacturer of the power racks in your videos

2. Im 47 years young and wish to develop strength and add muscle mass...Due to shoulder surgeries , i cannot get shoulders far back enough to back squat , so i will just front squat BUT
I had torn elbow tendon surgeryin the past that even when using straps power cleans are very painful. also limits grip strength
what alternatives as far as exercises to replace power clean in program

Thanks in Advance Dan Gallagher

[Mark Rippetoe]

1. There is no manufacturer. The plans are here: http://startingstrength.com/files/po...n_rippetoe.pdf Have them made by a fab welder.

2. Omit the power clean and just deadlift. If you can't rack the bar, you can't use the exercise.

[Christopher]

2. Omit the power clean and just deadlift. If you can't rack the bar, you can't use the exercise.

If the issue is racking the PC, would power high pulls maybe be of some utility here?

[Mark Rippetoe]

They are hard to do correctly, even for an experienced lifter.

[Alexandros Brod]

how are you holding the bar for a front squat if you can't rack a clean?
also mark, what do you think about a cambered bar if he had access to one?

[AdamW]

They are hard to do correctly, even for an experienced lifter.

Bullshit, I know this guy who teaches Crossfit that can teach you to high pull perfectly in 15 seconds, even sumo.

[Mark Rippetoe]

how are you holding the bar for a front squat if you can't rack a clean?

An excellent question. I read them too fast sometimes.

[Tom Campitelli]

California style, perhaps.

[Slatts]

Need another book, or chapter in the next version, on how to do starting strength if you're an old fart (master) who can't rack a clean due to some old injury or just general inflexibilty no matter how much we may try. Most of us can deadlift though.

[Valhall]

how are you holding the bar for a front squat if you can't rack a clean?

Maybe by holding it with hands crossed like this: