The Aerobic Exercise Dilemma
Should athletes do aerobic training? This has been a pretty good debate for a number of years. One side of the debate is going to say that of course aerobic fitness is...
program design
Variations of the Clean, Part 3
Up to this point we’ve covered how to teach the clean, variations of the clean using hang cleans and block cleans, and variations of the clean using different types of pulls. This...
Variations of the Clean, Part 2
In a previous blog we covered hang and block cleans as assistance exercises for the clean and we discussed the place these exercise had in the strength and conditioning of the non-weightlifting...
Variations of the Clean, Part 1
In two previous posts I spent a lot of time covering different ways to teach the clean. Olympic lifters use a wide range of assistance exercises to improve their cleans. Many of...
Teaching the Clean, Part 2
In my last post I covered teaching the power clean to large groups of athletes. There are times where we want to teach the competition version of the lift. We often say...