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Anonymous
Ok /fit/

I've read and seen in a few places that when doing the power clean you are supposed to have the elbows forward and the upper arms parallel (or nearly so) to the floor at the end, with the bar resting on your clavicle and shoulders. ... I can't do that!

No matter how I twist or lean the best I can come up with is the bar supported on my shoulders, my wrists bent back painfully, and the bar pushing quite painfully against my throat. Is there some sort of trick to it, or am I built weird?
>> Anonymous
You need to stretch your forearms/wrists so you dont fucking break them. A friend of a friend broke his wrists from doing heavy power cleans.

Practice hang power cleans if you're not and read starting strength if you haven't, otherwise, I can't help. I am just trying to learn the snatch and olympic lifts piss me off so fucking bad because our country is full of fucking gyms who don't even let you treat the weight like iron and no one knows how to fucking do them let alone teach the finer points.

http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/excercise.html
>> Anonymous
I hope your a troll... putting your elbows out like that will destroy your wrists.
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>>103371
That's what I'm thinking, but it seems to be the way to do it. Just that when I do that kind of position my wrists hurt and the bar is choking me.
>> Anonymous
Alright mother fucker, did you read the book?

And that is the proper way of doing it>>103371Goddamn.
>> Anonymous
my advice is to practice doing front squats like that. rack the weight on a squat rack and grip it like a clean and then squat it. this hold is not incorrect form for a front squat as there are a few different ways. and practice. try using lighter weights and get your form down well.
>> Anonymous
>>103388
What book? You just linked to some videos.