Classic Lifts + Squats 5 Days a Week

What am I doing wrong pulling from the floor or am I just slow as hell?

The pull from the floor looks fine. You catch the 238 with your weight too forwards and your heels are off the ground. You should be more balanced and your heel should be totally flat when you receive the bar so it makes squatting up easier.

On the 238 and 218 when you receive the bar you crumple. Look how rounded your back is. Make a huge effort to keep your chest up and your back tight. It will be much harder to Cn 150kg if your back is rounded.

Speed looks good.

Koing

Damn, I guess I just suck at cleans. Doing power cleans with about the same weight.

I think my back is pretty tight here.

I’m letting the bar crash every time on cleans and crumpling.

Cleans take time. Stop doing power cleans as you will never learn to clean properly otherwise. You just need to spend more time doing bar work and cleans with moderate weight. You should catch with a rock solid back.

Squats look okay. Work on keeping your upper back tighter. It’s still rounding. You never set your back properly at the top.

I would recommend bent over rows from the 2nd pull position and weighted hyper extensions. These are 2 exercises I prescribe to the lifters I coach and my coach had me do these. I also do a lot of weightlifting so my upper back is very strong from all of the pulling that I do which was 3x a week for 6yrs. If you don’t lift often your back won’t get the same work out as a weightlifters back. A mate I coach, his back is weak as he isn’t a weightlifter. He doesn’t do any lifting so his back doesn’t get the same sort of work out as a weightlifter who lifts frequently. He has strong legs but his upper back lets him down on front and back squats. He is hammering pulls from the hang, DL and weighted hypers.

Koing

this type of issue (bad catch/crumpling) is often rooted in the pull ie not staying over enough from the start and/or past the knee/second pull. keep the shoulders over the bar until the bar is mid/upper thigh, then drive the hips in. don’t lean back after the knees (can’t see the key vids except block work, which shows what i’m describing)

To add to what Koing’s saying about your back on front squats.

It isn’t moving that much on some of the videos. But you need to work hard on your upper back mobility, it looks worse because you have a pretty pronounced round in your upper back and forward pelvic tilt in your lumbar before you even start your squat. You need to be trying to make your whole back as straight and flat as possible.

It’s tough and it takes a lot of time but it is doable. Ab and back work will help a lot with this as well.

Is it looking better here?