Re form, difficult angle but unrack bar with flat back, get the bar below knee, elbows out, bar close, move your feet. Looked pretty easy.
More PRs
Easy 225x2 from blocks and one 225 squat clean
240x1 from blocks
Tried 250, got it chest height, but too slow underneath.
Did a 5 round circuit of 205x3 + 20 box jumps in 6:30 for conditioning and technique work. Really focused on pulling the bar into the hips and not extending early. Consequently those cleans felt easy as hell.
Keep shoulders over and drive hips forward into the bar as opposed to pulling the bar in. Your shoulders are coming back and you’re ending up slightly behind the bar/bar slightly away, hence the wobble in the full clean.
[quote]amayakyrol wrote:
[quote]oly-ali wrote:
Grip should not be a limiting factor on power cleans, are you using a hookgrip?[/quote]
Yes and I have started using chalk once I go over 200 lbs. I’ve since done 210 for a double and I’ve pulled 220 from the hang high enough and 225 from the floor high enough to power clean, but didn’t get under either one fast enough.
My best hook grip deadlift is 60lbs under my best deadlift and I used chalk for the hook grip one, but not for the over/under. It’s a limiting factor to some extent, but it is mainly due to a mental block once the bar starts feeling heavy and fatigue sets in in my forearms. I’ve managed to get over the mental part for the most part.
A couple months ago I was struggling to do 175x3 because my grip felt so weak. Now (despite losing a month to vacation and flu) I’ve managed to easily crush that and increase my power clean by a good 20 lbs.
[quote]stephen.gary11 wrote:
Not to be a dick as I am certainly new to olympic lifting, but there is a lot telling people what you’re going to do and what is wrong for a post titled “form check.”[/quote]
You made an account just to post this? Pretty sure that qualifies as dick status. [/quote]
Not to mention one hell of a planner since he joined in 2012!!