Squat, Bench, and Power Clean

[Homewerk]

Form checks please?

Squat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOoVAO_tah0

Bench - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4GiFS11mk
My back was actually rounded here. My shirt was just really loose.

Power Clean - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Tzo7KdJYY

[Tom Campitelli]

Your depth is inconsistent on your squats and almost every rep looks a little different. Get just below parallel every time. Stay balanced over the middle of the foot.

Bench - pinch your shoulders back at the beginning and keep them there.

Cleans - get a wider grip, start with your hips higher, and, most importantly, touch the thigh every time.

You need to gain a good deal of weight. You will find this helps your lifting a lot.

[Rachel Crass]

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[Dastardly]

Your start position is fine, as a power clean is not a powerlifting-style deadlift.

Oh, but that is the way we like it around here. You were present at that long lecture given by Tommy Kono weren't you? The type of clean setup rip teaches is basically the same as him.

[Rachel Crass]

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[Tom Campitelli]

Your start position is fine, as a power clean is not a powerlifting-style deadlift.

We'll have to agree to disagree about that one.

[Rachel Crass]

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[IndividualThoughtPatterns]

yep. But i hope the lifter in question takes the advice of the person traveling to london with an olympian next month.

:-p lol.

[Dastardly]

God love Tommy and his 1940s-modified-to-1980s technique...

And that's the shortest pole I'll touch that discussion with.

All the cues that kono focuses on are about getting the bar UP efficiently. As far as I understand everything else in the modern weightlifters back of tricks is to assist getting back under the bar, often without going anywhere near a full extension.

Now, lets remember the power clean is done not to move the maximum weight for competition but as a training exercise, in which the goal is to generate explosive upward force.

There are plenty of current day and recent top weightlifters that setup exactly like a deadlift. I know that one way is not really any better than the other for actual WL, more whatever works best for the lifter. But I have never been able to tell what low hips actually achieves other than helping to get the back nice and tight. The hips themselves pop back up soon enough.

[hbriem]

The bar doesn't move until the hips are up. What the preparatory squat achieves I don't know.