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Barbell Power Clean

Set up over the barbell with feet hip-width, shins close to the bar and a hook grip just outside your hips, keeping your back flat and chest up. Lift the bar off the floor by driving through your legs, then explosively extend your hips, knees and ankles once the bar passes your knees. Shrug and pull yourself under the bar, catching it on the front of your shoulders in a quarter or partial squat. Stand tall to finish with the bar racked across your front delts and your core braced.

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Barbell Power Clean: how the movement is executed

How it is executed

  1. Set up over the barbell with feet hip-width, shins close to the bar and a hook grip just outside your hips, keeping your back flat and chest up.
  2. Lift the bar off the floor by driving through your legs, then explosively extend your hips, knees and ankles once the bar passes your knees.
  3. Shrug and pull yourself under the bar, catching it on the front of your shoulders in a quarter or partial squat.
  4. Stand tall to finish with the bar racked across your front delts and your core braced.
Muscles worked
Back
Primary muscle
Trapezius
Equipment
Barbell
Movement pattern
Full body
Difficulty
Advanced
What it is for
StrengthHypertrophy

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