Power Cleans and 5-3-1

Training Powerlifting
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Question about where to put power cleans in the program:
I know Mr Wendler says to put the Clean before squat but this makes me unbelievably tired and my front squat suffers [I don’t do back squats at the moment]. As I see it I have two options:

  1. PREFERRED: Do my cleans before I military press (military press day is 48 hrs after deadlifting and 48 hrs before front squatting)

  2. Add in a fifth weights day where I just go to the gym and do the power cleans.

3.Drop the volume of cleans. Currently I warm up with 20kg,30,40,50,603 then do 70kg 33 work sets (Currently this is quite a light weight for me - I’m adding 2.5kg a week). This is pretty low volume as is - maybe i could just do singles on the warm ups?

Which of these options would work???

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I did fine putting them on DL day, using the same progression as other main exercises (5-3-1) and only get the prescribed reps; they worked as a warm-up for DL. You can calculate training percentages using 85% of 1RM to give your body more time to adapt.

I’d choose option #3, if I had to…

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Why do you want to clean so bad?

I use them only as a warm up on squat and deadlift day. That’s what I’d recommend but it depends on why you’re doing the cleans in the first place.

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Power cleans are messy to put into 531 … esp. for the high rep sets, and ESPECIALLY for when you get into 225lbs +