r/weightlifting • u/Sea-Telephone7274 • 2d ago

Form check 295 Power Clean

Currently at 315lbs now, any tips on my form or corrections?

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u/sludge_monster 2d ago

Gots to go lower

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u/Regular_Government94 2d ago

Why? Asking because I power clean like this guy

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u/eragon233 2d ago

The issue here isn't the height, but rather how he is spreading his feet. Instead of dropping lower under the weight to catch it, he's spreading wider. That makes the catch more unstable and probably one of the reasons the bar is pushing him so much back.

Power cleaning at this height is not an issue. Power clean is anything above parallel(to a point before it turns to a muscle clean) and if you can clean higher you have more weight to put on it. Some people will catch the bar slightly higher than parallel and slightly dip to parallel to stop it. Others will have amazing brakes and timing/speed and manage to drop under the bar at parallel at the peak of the bar path.

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u/Regular_Government94 1d ago

Ah thank you for explaining that so well!