Power clean
A compound exercise for the glutes and hamstrings and traps, with help from the quads, upper back, lower back, calves. Equipment: barbell.
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How to do it
- Setup: Bar over the middle of your foot, grip just outside the legs, shoulders slightly in front of the bar.
- Push the floor away until the bar passes the knees
- Jump and shrug hard
- Drop under and catch it on the front of the shoulders
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