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[aka Dave]

When you're doing your lifts, where do you fail?

Okay, my first failure was a clean to do a front squat. Oh, man, it was a sad affair. I really wanted to clean the bar from the ground to my front squat

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgdWg2XBgQ

I tried to clean the bar from the ground to my chest (70kilos or so, I weigh 60 kilos) and dropped it pathetically. Koreans stare at me, wtf are you doing?

Overhead lift.

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=sebbhlKhs2E

This is one where technique is hard. It takes practice. But personally I SUCK at this lift and can lose the bar, as it comes crashing to the ground.

I have no squat/power
racks and so everything comes up the ground, not off racks, and learning to clean the bar is tricky.

Anyway, last monday there were 45 students or so in the univ. gym (there's usually one or two guys there) and I saw a list the teacher had (power clean, squat, deadlift -exercises Koreans never do)

If they start power cleaning, maybe for god's sake they will get a squat rack. I mean those are connected. Power cleaning is a difficult, technical lift, and if peole have to do it maybe they'll consider investingin a racck.

[jackson7]

Although I was a bodybuilder myself, I did my undergrad in exercise physiology (the research, not the P.E.) and coached the powerlifters at my uni and trained athletes for a good while out of one of my clubs before coming to Korea. If you're having trouble with the power clean, I suggest breaking it up into three parts:

Deadlift. Hang clean. Front squat.

Practice each of these individually and you'll be able to put them together much more effectively. This is one reason people do top-end or bottom-end ROM lifts, using the first of last degrees of motion--they are working through their sticking points specifically and then bringing it back together when performing the full lift.